George William Beaumont Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle (born 15 February 1949), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1963 to 1994, is a British nobleman, politician, and hereditary peer. In 1994, on the death of his father, he inherited three English peerages, Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, and Baron Dacre of Gillesland, and a fourth, Lord Ruthven of Freeland, in the Peerage of Scotland. He was a member of the

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from 1994 to 1999.

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Educated at

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and Balliol College, Oxford, Carlisle is the son of

Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle Charles James Ruthven Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle, 12th Lord Ruthven of Freeland MC (21 February 1923 – 28 November 1994), styled Viscount Morpeth until 1963, was an English nobleman, politician, and peer. Background and education Lord Carli ...

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'', volume 1, 2003, p. 685 A member of the

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and a kinsman of the

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, he is also a co-heir to the baronies of Greystock and Clifford. He was commissioned as an

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into the 9th/12th Royal Lancers regiment of the

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, retiring with the rank of Major. As Viscount Morpeth, he unsuccessfully contested Easington in the 1987 general election and

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in the 1992 general election as well as

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in the 1989 European elections for the Liberal Democrats. Having lost his automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords under the

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, Carlisle has stood as a Liberal Democrat in

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; his best performance was finishing a distant second to Labour's Viscount Hanworth in the 2011 by-election to replace Lord Strabolgi. Carlisle is an academic and commentator on Baltic States matters, having lived for some time in Tartu, Estonia. The President of Estonia has appointed him a

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1st Class of the

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana ( et, Maarjamaa Risti teenetemärk, sometimes translated as the Order of the Cross of St. Mary's Land) was instituted by the President of Estonia, Lennart Meri, on 16 May 1995 to honour the independence of t ...

. He played a role in securing

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s to the 112 British

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killed in the 1919 operation which ensured the independence of the Baltic States. These plaques have been set up in numerous places, notably at Portsmouth Cathedral by the then

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, Admiral Lord West of Spithead in 2005, and by HM The Queen during her visit to

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in 2010. The

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to the earldom and other peerages is the 13th Earl's brother,

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Philip Charles Wentworth Howard.

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