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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 2 p.371
[how]ever, unfortunately declining to volunteer his service as an introductor to Parliament, Byron substituted the following heartless sarcasm on his relation's age:

No more will cheer with renovating smile
The paralytic puling of Carlisle.
And speaking of his tragedies, he says:

'So dull in youth, so drivelling in his age,
His scenes alone might damn our sinking stage;
But managers for once cried, hold, enough!
Nor drugged their audience with the tragic stuff.'
In 1804 his Lordship presented to the Dean and Chapter of York, for the embellishment of their Minster, a beautiful window of painted glass, purchased during the troubles in France, from the Church of St. Nicholas at Rouen; see vol.LXXIV. p.1065, and an engraving of it in vol.LXXVI. p.401. In 1811 his Lordship presented to York Minster another beautiful window of stained glass in a pure gothic style. His Lordship's Museum at Castle Howard abounded with antiques of all kinds, while the gallery, 160 feet long, contained a noble collection of pictures, medals, and spars, collected at a great expense.
On the 12th of March, 1770, his Lordship married Margaret-Caroline, daughter of Granville-Leveson Gower first Marquess of Stafford. She died January 25, 1824. By her he had issue George, present Earl; and nine other children, six daughters and three sons.
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