George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle

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George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle KG PC (April 18, 1802 – December 5, 1864), was a British politician and statesman.

He was born in London, the eldest son of the 6th earl by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where (as Viscount Morpeth) 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 and an English poem.

In 1826 he accompanied his uncle, the Duke of Devonshire, to Russia, to attend the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I, and became a great favourite in society at St Petersburg. At the general election of the same year he was returned to parliament as member for the family borough of Morpeth.

He participated in various positions in the Whig governments of the era. In 1835 he was appointed to the Privy Councils of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

On April 2, 1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh,^[1] and in 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.

On Bulmer Hill, about a mile from Bulmer village, is a monumental column, erected by public subscription in 1869, to his memory. It is inscribed:

" AD MDCCCLXIX: IN PRIVATE LIFE WAS LOVED/ 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"

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Ord William Howard	Member of Parliament for Morpeth with William Ord 1826–1830	Succeeded by William Ord William Howard
Preceded by Viscount Milton William Duncombe Richard Fountayne-Wilson John Marshall	Member of Parliament for Yorkshire with William Duncombe 1830–1831 Henry Brougham 1830 Richard Bethell 1830–1831 Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt 1830–1832 George Strickland 1831–1832 John Charles Ramsden 1831–1832 1830–1832	Succeeded by constituency abolished
Preceded by constituency created	Member of Parliament for the West Riding of Yorkshire with Sir George Strickland, Bt 1832–1841	Succeeded by Lord John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Edmund Beckett Denison
Preceded by Lord John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Edmund Beckett Denison	Member of Parliament for the West Riding of Yorkshire with Edmund Beckett Denison 1846–1847 Richard Cobden 1847–1848 1846–1848	Succeeded by Richard Cobden Edmund Beckett Denison
Political offices
Preceded by Sir Henry Hardinge	Chief Secretary for Ireland 1835–1841	Succeeded by Lord Eliot
Preceded by The Earl Canning	First Commissioner of Woods and Forests 1846–1850	Succeeded by Lord Seymour
Preceded by The Lord Campbell	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1850–1852	Succeeded by Robert Adam Christopher
Preceded by The Earl of St Germans	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1855–1858	Succeeded by The Earl of Eglinton
Preceded by The Earl of Eglinton	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1859–1864	Succeeded by The Lord Wodehouse
Academic offices
Preceded by Earl of Eglinton	Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen 1853–?	Succeeded by Unknown
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Lord Wenlock	Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire 1847–1864	Succeeded by The Lord Wenlock
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Howard	Earl of Carlisle 1848–1864	Succeeded by William Howard