George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle KG PC (April 18, 1802 – December 5, 1864), was a British politician and statesman. He was born in London, the eldest son of the 6th earl by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

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  • George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle KG PC (April 18, 1802 – December 5, 1864), was a British politician and statesman. He was born in London, the eldest son of the 6th earl by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. 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 and an English poem.In 1826 he accompanied his maternal grandfather, 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 of the same year he was returned to parliament as member for the family borough of Morpeth.He participated in various positions in the Whig governments of the era. In 1835 he was appointed to the Privy Councils of the United Kingdom and Ireland. On April 2, 1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, and in 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.On Bulmer Hill, about a mile from Bulmer village, is a monumental column, erected by public subscription in 1869, to his memory. It is inscribed::" AD MDCCCLXIX: IN PRIVATE LIFE WAS LOVED/ BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM/ BY HIS PUBLIC CONDUCT/ WON the RESPECT of his COUNTRY/ and LEFT THE BRIGHT EXAMPLE/ OF A TRVE PATRIOT/ AND EARNEST CHRISTIAN/ VIIth EARL of CARLISLE" (en)
  • George William Frederick Howard, 7:e earl av Carlisle, brittisk politiker, född 1802, död 1864, bar från 1825 till 1848, då han ärvde faderns earlvärdighet, titeln viscount Morpeth och var 1826-1841 och 1846-1848 medlem av underhuset, där han tillhörde whigpartiets dugligaste förmågor. Farfars bror till Charles James Stanley Howard. Howard var april 1835 - september 1841 minister för Irland i Melbournes ministär (från 1839 med säte i kabinettet) och förde som sådan under svåra omständigheter en taktfull politik. Han tillhörde juli 1846 - februari 1852 Russells kabinett, först som kommissarie för skogsväsendet, sedan 1850 som kansler för hertigdömet Lancaster, samt var februari 1855 - februari 1858 och juni 1859 - oktober 1864 i Palmerstons ministär lordlöjtnant på Irland, där han gjorde sig omtyckt genom sin energiska verksamhet för jordbrukets höjande. (sv)
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  • George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle KG PC (April 18, 1802 – December 5, 1864), was a British politician and statesman. He was born in London, the eldest son of the 6th earl by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. (en)
  • George William Frederick Howard, 7:e earl av Carlisle, brittisk politiker, född 1802, död 1864, bar från 1825 till 1848, då han ärvde faderns earlvärdighet, titeln viscount Morpeth och var 1826-1841 och 1846-1848 medlem av underhuset, där han tillhörde whigpartiets dugligaste förmågor. (sv)
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  • George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (en)
  • George William Frederick Howard, 7:e earl av Carlisle (sv)
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