George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle

George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle , KG , PC (born September 17, 1773 in Castle Howard , Yorkshire , † October 7, 1848 ibid) was a British nobleman and politician .

Life

Howard Castle

George Howard was the eldest son of five children of the politician Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825) and his wife Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower (1753-1824), third daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford , and his first wife, Lady Louisa Egerton.

George Howard was First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and later Lord Privy Seal in the Tory government of George Canning and Frederick Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon . After the Wellington Ministry was dissolved in 1830, Charles Gray, 2nd Earl Gray , headed a new one, which committed itself to "parliamentary reform , reduction of state burdens and non-interference in the affairs of foreign states". Under his reign, George Howard was reappointed Lord Privy Seal.

Joshua Reynolds : Portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire with her daughter Lady Georgiana Dorothy, oil on canvas, 1786

On March 21, 1801, Sir George Howard married Lady Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish (1783-1858), daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and Lady Georgiana Spencer, at Devonshire House in London . Twelve children emerged from the joint relationship:

• George William Frederick (1802–1864), 7th Earl of Carlisle
• Caroline Georgiana (1803–1881) ⚭ 1823 Rt. Hon. William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
• Georgiana (1804–1860) ⚭ 1822 George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover
• Frederick George (1805–1834, fallen)
• Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana (1806–1868), lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria ⚭ 1823 George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
• William George (1808-1889), 8th Earl of Carlisle
• Edward Granville George (1809–1880), 1st Baron Lanerton (Admiral of the Royal Navy) ⚭ 1842 Diana Ponsonby
• Blanche Georgiana (1812–1840) ⚭ 1829 William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
• Charles Wentworth George (1814–1879) ⚭ 1842 Mary Priscilla Harriet Parke
• Elizabeth Dorothy Anne Georgiana (1816–1891) ⚭ 1840 Rev. Hon. Francis Richard Gray
• Henry George (1818–1879) ⚭ 1845 Mary Wellesley McTavish
• Mary Matilda Georgiana (1823–1892) ⚭ 1852 Henry de Labouchère, 1st Baron Taunton

Offices and Awards

• 1795–1801 Member of Parliament of Great Britain for Morpeth
• 1801-1806 Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Morpeth
• 1806 pc
• 1806-1820 Member of Parliament for Cumberland
• 1824-1840 Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire
• 1827 First Commissioner of Woods and Forests
• 1827-1828 Lord Privy Seal
• 1834 Lord Privy Seal
• 1825-1848 Earl of Carlisle
• 1837 KG

Name in different phases of life

• 1773-1825 George Howard, Viscount Morpeth
• 1825–1848 George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle

literature

• Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage , Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd (2003)
• Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage
• Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom , Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing (2000)
• Peter W. Hammond: The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times , Addenda & Corrigenda, Gloucestershire (1998)

Web links

• George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
• George Howard at Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Frederick Howard	Earl of Carlisle 1825-1848	George Howard
Henry Phipps	Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire 1824-1840	Paul Thompson
William Bentinck	Lord seal keeper 1827–1828	Edward Law
Frederick Robinson	Lord Seal Keeper 1834	Constantine Phipps