George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
The Viscount Palmerston | |
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Preceded by | The Earl of Eglinton |
Succeeded by | The Lord Wodehouse |
Personal details | |
Born | Berkeley Square, Westminster, England | 18 April 1802
Died | 5 December 1864 Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England | (aged 62)
Political party | Liberal |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle,
Life
Carlisle was born in
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.[3]
Carlisle served under
On 2 April 1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh,[6] and in 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.[7]
In the six weeks after he stepped down as Chief Secretary of Ireland in 1841, the signatures of 160,000 men and women who appreciated his service were gathered on 652 sheets of paper and stuck together, creating the Morpeth Roll, a continuous roll measuring 420 metres.[8]
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.[9]
Legacy
On Bulmer Hill, about a mile from
BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM
BY HIS PUBLIC CONDUCT
WON the RESPECT of his COUNTRY
and LEFT THE BRIGHT EXAMPLE
OF A TRVE PATRIOT
AND EARNEST CHRISTIAN
VIIth EARL of CARLISLE
Statues of him by the Irish sculptor
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The statue of Lord Carlisle, which stood in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, from 1870 to 1956
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The plinth of the former statue today
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Statue of Lord Carlisle on Brampton Motte
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Obelisk at top of Bulmer Hill
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Inscription on obelisk (see text)
Notes
- ^ a b 'The Pride of Yorkshire', leaflet for exhibition on George Howard, Castle Howard, 2010
- ^ EB (1911), p. 340.
- ^ EB (1911), pp. 340–341.
- ^ EB (1911), p. 341.
- ^ "Key to Mr Leslie's picture of Queen Victoria receiving the Holy Sacrament at her Coronation". National Portrait Gallery.
- ^ Gilbert, W.M., Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh, 1901: 124
- ^ Barker, George Fisher Russell (1891). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. pp. 19–21. .
- ^ Christopher Ridgway, editor. 'The Morpeth Roll – Ireland identified in 1841’ (Four Courts, 2013).
- ^ EB (1878), p. 110.
- ^ "Howard Monument". Old Cumbria Gazetteer. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Carlisle Monument, Peoples' Garden, Phoenix Park". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Monument men – An Irishman's Diary on the Earl of Carlisle, Goldsmith and Burke". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
References
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 110 ,
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Carlisle, Earls of s.v. George William Frederick Howard", Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 340–341 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Barker, George Fisher Russell (1891). "Howard, George William Frederick". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. pp. 19–21.
- Biography
- Obituary in the Sidney Mail
- Extracts from journals kept by George Howard, earl of Carlisle: selected by his sister, Lady Caroline Lascelles
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Carlisle