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Edward Granville George Howard, 1st Baron Lanerton (23 December 1809 – 8 October 1880), was a British naval commander and politician.


Background

Howard was the fourth son of
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, and his wife Lady Georgiana Dorothy, daughter of
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Naval and political career

He served in the
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and achieved the rank of admiral in 1870, and also sat as Whig
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for
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from 1833 to 1837 and from 1840 to 1852. In 1874 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lanerton, of Lanerton in the County of Cumberland.


Personal life

Lord Lanerton married Diana, daughter of the Hon. George Ponsonby, in 1842. The marriage was childless. He died in October 1880, aged 70, when the barony became extinct. Lady Lanerton died in 1893.


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* 1809 births 1880 deaths Younger sons of earls Edward Howard Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Morpeth Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs who were granted peerages Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria {{UK-baron-stub