Gents Mag 1848 part 2 p.537
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Gentleman's Magazine 1848 part 2 p.537
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obituary George Howard Earl of Carlisle |
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Obituary, Earl of
Carlisle
Obituary THE EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G. Oct. 7. At Castle Howard, Yorkshire, aged 75, the Right Hon. George Howard, sixth Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, co. Northumberland, and Baron Dacre of Gillesland, co. Cumberland, Knight of the Garter. a Privy Councillor, D.C.L. and F.R.S. His Lordship was born in London on the 17th Sept. 1773, the eldest son of Frederick the fifth Earl of Carlisle, K.G. by Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, second daughter of Granville first Marquess of Stafford. He received his early education at Eton, where he excelled in the favourite pursuit of that school, the composition of Latin verse; and from thence he was transferred to Christ Church, Oxford, where the degree of M.A. was conferred on him in 1792 and that of D.C.L. in 1799. On his coming of age in 1794, room was made for his sitting in Parliament for the family borough of Morpeth, for which he was rechosen in 1796 and 1802. In 1796 he moved the address at the opening of Parliament, and in the same year he accompanied Lord Malmesbury in his diplomatic mission to France. "In the House of Commons Lord Morpeth displayed a strong and well-cultured uunderstanding, a full knowledge of every subject which he undertook to handle, a tasteful and judicious adaptation of the manner to the matter, joined to liberality of sentiment, and, upon the whole, a manly spirit. These were qualities to make him an orator of no trivial note, yet such was the mauvaise honle which afflicted him, that speeches "dropt unimpressive from his tongue" which, delivered in a more confident tone, would have awed the house into respect and roused it into admiration. ... At the general election in December 1806, he was returned for the county of Cumberland, but when his friends quitted office he of course resigned his place at the India Board, and did not at the ensuing election again offer himself for Cumberland, which county, however, he had represented for a portion of three Parliaments. To the House of Commons which was elected in 1820, he was not returned, for the near prospect of succeeding to a seat in the Lords made it scarcely worth his while to struggle for a place in the representative body, though for the greater part of his life previous to 1820 he enjoyed a seat in that assembly. ... On the 4th. Sept. 1825, Lord Morpeth, being then in the 52nd. year of his age, succeeded his father as sixth Earl of Carlisle; and in 1827, when the Canning ministry was formed, the noble Earl just deceased received the appointment of Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. This office was held by his Lordship till the death of Mr. Canning led to the formation of the Goderich ministry, in which he was There is more detail about parliamentary activities in the magazine article than is quoted here. |
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