 Maria Howard, Duchess of Norfolk

Maria Winifreda Francisca Howard, Duchess of Norfolk ("née" Shireburn or Sherburne; – 26 September 1754) was an English noblewoman and the wife of Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk.The only surviving child and heir of Sir Nicholas Shireburn, 1st and last Baronet, of Stonyhurst, she was born into a prominent Catholic Lancashire family.