Carlisle

Carlisle, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK HOWARD, seventh EARL OF, K.G., was born in London, April 18, 1802. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he took in 1821 the Chancellor's and Newdigate prizes, and graduated with a first-class in classics. In 1826 he was returned for the family borough of Morpeth, and at once attached himself to Earl Grey and the cause of parliamentary reform. In 1830 he, along with Henry Brougham, was elected for Yorkshire, and after the Reform Bill he was returned for the West Riding, a seat which he lost in 1841, but recovered in 1846. Under Lord Melbourne, he was Chief-secretary for Ireland (1835-41), and, under Lord John Russell (1846-52), Chief-commissioner of Woods and Forests, and afterwards Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1848 he succeeded to the peerage. Palmerston appointed him Lord-lieutenant of Ireland in 1855, and again, on the downfall of Derby's government, in 1859. Carlisle obtained some literary reputation by his lectures on his travels in the United States, and on the life and writings of Pope, his Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters, and a volume of posthumous Poems. He died at Castle Howard, December 5, 1864.