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George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle

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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Carlisle
Howard as sketched by Edward Burne-Jones (drawing in the Delaware Art Museum).
Member of Parliament for Cumberland East
In office
1881–1885
Serving with Stafford Howard
Preceded byStafford Howard
Sir Richard Musgrave
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
In office
1879–1880
Serving with Stafford Howard
Preceded byCharles Howard
Stafford Howard
Succeeded byStafford Howard
Sir Richard Musgrave
Personal details
Born(1843-08-12)12 August 1843
London, England
Died16 April 1911(1911-04-16) (aged 67)
Brackland, Hindhead, Surrey
Spouse
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(m. 1864)​
Children11
Parent(s)Charles Howard
Mary Parke
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Heatherley School of Fine Art

George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (12 August 1843 – 16 April 1911), known as George Howard until 1889, was an English aristocrat, peer, politician, and painter.[1] He was the last Earl of Carlisle to own Castle Howard.

Early life

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Howard was born in London, England on 12 August 1843. He was the only son of Hon. Charles Howard and the Hon. Mary Parke, who died fourteen days after his birth.

His father was the fifth son of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and his maternal grandfather was James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale. Among his father's family were uncles George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle and William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle, who served as the Rector of Londesborough, both of whom died unmarried and without legitimate issue.

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,[2][3] where he joined the Cambridge Apostles in 1864.[4] After graduating from Cambridge he studied at Heatherley School of Fine Art in London.

Career

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Edward Burne-Jones as drawn by Lord Carlisle
1 Palace Green, London, built for him in 1870

Howard's art teachers were Alphonse Legros and Giovanni Costa, and he belonged to the 'Etruscan School'[5] of painters. He married Rosalind Frances Stanley in 1864, but did not share her campaigning interests, although he supported temperance. He was a friend of, and a patron to, a number of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, being particularly close to Edward Burne-Jones.[6]

The Howards lived in London in Kensington, in a house at 1 Palace Green,[7] built for them by Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb in 1870,[8] and at Naworth Castle. Among their visitors at Naworth were Robert Browning, William Ewart Gladstone, Lewis Carroll, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and many others.[9] William Morris was an intimate friend, and his wallpapers were used in Kensington, at Naworth Castle and at Castle Howard when George inherited it.[10] With Morris and Webb, he was one of the founding members of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.[11]

Collections

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Lord Carlisle's work can be found in a number of public and private collections, including the Tate,[12] York Art Gallery, the Government Art Collection,[13] the National Portrait Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Castle Howard Collection and the British Library. An additional Burne-Jones cartoon is in the private collection of Tomkinsons Stained Glass Ltd.

Political career

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Howard was Liberal Party Member of Parliament for East Cumberland between 1879 and 1880 and again between 1881 and 1885. He succeeded in the earldom in 1889 on the death of his uncle The 8th Earl of Carlisle. He was a trustee of the National Gallery.[14]

Marriage and issue

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bust produced in 1877 by the sculptor Jules Dalou

On 4 October 1864, Lord Carlisle married The Honourable Rosalind Frances Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley and the Hon. Henrietta Maria Dillon (eldest daughter of Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon). Together, George and Rosalind were the parents of eleven children:[15]

Lord Carlisle died in Brackland, Hindhead, Surrey, in April 1911, aged 67. His eldest son, Charles, succeeded in the earldom. The Countess of Carlisle died on 12 August 1921, aged 76, at her home in Kensington Palace Gardens. Their ashes are interred at Lanercost Priory.

Descendants

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His son Geoffrey was the father of Dame Christian Howard and George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe.[20]

Through his daughter Lady Dorothy, Carlisle was a grandfather of Michael Francis Eden, 7th Baron Henley (1914–1977).[20]

His daughter Lady Cecilia was the mother of politician Wilfrid Roberts (1900–1991), who had four daughters.[23]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Howard, George James" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ "Howard, George James (HWRT860GJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Biography for: George James Howard Archived 5 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "The Apostles". Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 6 March 2007.
  5. ^ [1][permanent dead link]; the name Etruscan School was applied only in the 1880s to the grouping around Costa, and George Howard has been credited with assembling them from 1882 "The Collections". Archived from the original on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 6 March 2007..
  6. ^ Judith Flanders, A Circle of Sisters (2001), p.111.
  7. ^ [2]; photos of decorations by Burne-Jones, William Morris, Walter Crane and Webb, From: 'Plate 109: No. 1 Palace Green, morning-room.', Survey of London: volume 37: Northern Kensington (1973), p. 109. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=49995. Date accessed: 6 March 2007. [3]
  8. ^ Kirk, Sheila (2005). Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts & Crafts Architecture. Chichester: Wiley-Academy. p. 297. ISBN 0470868082.
  9. ^ Iain Finlayson, Browning: A Private Life (2004) p.605.
  10. ^ "William Morris - Victoria and Albert Museum". Archived from the original on 8 November 2008. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  11. ^ "Miele, Chris. Ed (2005) From William Morris. Building Conservation and the Arts and Crafts Cult of Authenticity 1877-1939. New Haven and London. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10730-7"
  12. ^ George Howard in the Tate collection
  13. ^ The Baths of Caracalla by George Howard in the Government Art Collection
  14. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carlisle, Earls of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 341.
  15. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 409. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  16. ^ "Obituary: Lord Carlisle". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 18 April 1911. p. 9.
  17. ^ "The Late Captain C. E. Howard". Dumfries Courier. 5 September 1896. p. 4. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  18. ^ Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1920). My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events 1888-1914. Martin Secker. p. 223. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  19. ^ "The Hon. Oliver Howard". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 28 September 1908. p. 11.
  20. ^ a b c Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 689. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  21. ^ "The Late Earl of Carlisle – Interment Amidst Ruins of Lanercost Abbey – A Simple Ceremony". Leeds Mercury. 21 April 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  22. ^ "Marriage Annulled. Decree Against Lady Aurea Wace". Daily Express. 21 May 1926. p. 7. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  23. ^ Roberts, Wilfrid Hubert Wace, in Who Was Who online edition, 1 December 2007, accessed 15 January 2023 (subscription required)
  • Virginia Surtees (1988) The Artist and the Autocrat. George and Rosalind Howard, Earl and Countess of Carlisle
  • Robin Gibson, George Howard and His Circle at Carlisle, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 110, No. 789, Special Issue Commemorating the Bicentenary of The Royal Academy (1768–1968) (Dec., 1968), p. 720
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cumberland East
1879–1880
With: Stafford Howard 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cumberland East
1881–1885
With: Stafford Howard 		Constituency abolished
Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Carlisle
1889–1911 		Succeeded by
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