Biography

George William Frederick Howard (1802-64), 7th Earl of Carlisle, was born in Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London, on 18 April 1802. He was educated at Eton College before matriculating at Christ Church, Oxford, on 15 October 1819. In 1821 he won the university prizes for Latin and English verse. He obtained a first class in classics in the following year, and graduated BA in 1823 and MA four years later. In September 1825, when his father became earl of Carlisle, he acquired the courtesy title of Viscount Morpeth by which he was known until he succeeded his father in the earldom in 1848. He was elected unopposed as a whig in the general election of June 1826 for his family borough of Morpeth, Northumberland, and returned unopposed for Yorkshire in the general election in May 1831, and for the new constituency of the West Riding in the first post-reform general election in December 1832. He was returned for the West Riding in three subsequent elections, two of which were contested, but was narrowly defeated in the general election of July 1841. In February 1855 Carlisle was invested with the Order of the Garter and was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland by the new Liberal premier, Lord Palmerston. He died at his main residence, Castle Howard, near Malton, Yorkshire, on 5 December 1864, and was buried in the family mausoleum in the park.

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