Monarch Victoria Name George 7th Monarch Victoria | Preceded by The Lord Campbell Prime Minister Lord John Russell | |
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Succeeded by Robert Adam Christopher Prime Minister The Viscount Palmerston Died December 5, 1864, Castle Howard, United Kingdom Parents Georgiana Cavendish Howard, George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle Siblings William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle, Charles Howard Education Christ Church, Oxford, Eton College Cousins Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville Similar People William Cavendish - 5th Duke, Georgiana Howard - Countess, Georgiana Cavendish - Duchess, Charles Grey - 2nd Earl Grey, William Cavendish - 6th Duke | ||
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (18 April 1802 – 5 December 1864), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1825 to 1848, was a British statesman, orator, and writer.
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Life
Carlisle was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. Lord Lanerton and Charles Howard were his younger brothers. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he earned a reputation as a scholar and writer of graceful verse, obtaining in 1821 both the chancellor's and the Newdigate prizes for a Latin poem, Paestum, and an English one. He maintained his interest in poetry throughout his life, exchanging sonnets with William Wordsworth. In 1826 he accompanied his maternal grandfather, the Duke of Devonshire, to the Russian Empire, to attend the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I, and became a great favourite in society at St Petersburg.
At the general election in 1826 Carlisle was returned to parliament as member for the family borough of Morpeth (in Northumberland), a seat he held until 1830, and then represented Yorkshire until 1832 and the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1832 to 1841 and from 1846 to 1848. The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.
Carlisle served under Lord Melbourne as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1835 and 1841, under Lord John Russell as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1846 to 1850 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1850 to 1852 and under Lord Palmerston as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1855 to 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864. In 1835 he was appointed to the Privy Councils of the United Kingdom and Ireland. On 2 April 1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, and in 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Lord Carlisle died unmarried at Castle Howard in December 1864, aged 62, and was buried in the family mausoleum. He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Reverend William George Howard.
Legacy
On Bulmer Hill, about a mile from Bulmer village, is the Carlisle Memorial Column, erected by public subscription to his memory in 1869–70. It is inscribed:
A statue of him was also erected in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1870. It stood until 1958, when it was blown off its plinth in an explosion, and subsequently removed. The plinth it once stood on remains in place.