George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle

George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle studied at Christ Church and Eton College. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Positions recorded include Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Garter and Fellow of the Royal Society.

• Honorific Prefix — The Right Honourable • Name — The Earl of Carlisle • Honorific Suffix — KG KP PC • Order1 — Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster • Term Start1 — 6 March 1850 • Term End1 — 21 February 1852 • Monarch1 — Victoria • Prime Minister1 — Lord John Russell • Predecessor1 — The Lord Campbell • Successor1 — Robert Adam Christopher • Order2 — Chief Secretary for Ireland • Term Start2 — 22 April 1835 • Term End2 — 1841 • Monarch2 — William IV Victoria • Prime Minister2 — The Viscount Melbourne • Predecessor2 — Sir Henry Hardinge • Successor2 — The Lord Eliot • Born — 18 April 1802 • Birthplace — Berkeley Square, Westminster, England • Died — 5 December 1864 • Place of death — Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England • Father — George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle • Mother — Lady Georgiana Cavendish • Relatives — Edward Howard (brother) Charles Howard (brother) Frederick Howard (brother) Harriet Howard (sister) William Howard (brother) Blanche Howard (sister) • Party — Whig Party • Education — Eton College • Alma Mater — Christ Church, Oxford • Illustration — Quartered arms of George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle, KG, PC

Carlisle was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. Lord Lanerton and Charles Howard were his younger brothers. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where 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 poem, Paestum, and an English one. He maintained his interest in poetry throughout his life, exchanging sonnets with William Wordsworth. In 1826 he accompanied his maternal uncle, the Duke of Devonshire, to the Russian Empire, to attend the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I, and became a great favourite in society at St Petersburg. At the general election in 1826 Carlisle was returned to parliament as member for the family borough of Morpeth (in Northumberland), a seat he held until 1830, and then represented Yorkshire until 1832 and the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1832 to 1841 and from 1846 to 1848. The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. Carlisle served under Lord Melbourne as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1835 and 1841, under Lord John Russell as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1846 to 1850 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1850 to 1852 and under Lord Palmerston as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1855 to 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864. In 1835 he was appointed to the Privy Councils of the United Kingdom and Ireland. He served as a Lord in Waiting to the Queen's mother, the Duchess of Kent at the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838. On 2 April 1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, and in 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter. In the six weeks after he stepped down as Chief Secretary of Ireland in 1841, the signatures of 160,000 men and women who appreciated his service were gathered on 652 sheets of paper and stuck together, creating the Morpeth Roll, a continuous roll measuring 420 metres. Lord Carlisle died unmarried at Castle Howard in December 1864, aged 62, and was buried in the family mausoleum. He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Reverend William George Howard.

The authorities additionally record the headings George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth, George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle and George William Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle. His recorded language was English. He was the child of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and Georgiana Howard, Countess of Carlisle.

Recorded positions include Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom. He belonged to Royal Society. He worked at London.