Admiral
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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
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle (17 September 17737 October 1848), styled Viscount Morpeth until 1825, was a British statesman. He served as Lord Privy Seal between 1827 and 1828 and in 1834 and was a member of Lord Grey's Whig government ...
, and his wife
Lady Georgiana Dorothy, daughter of
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
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.
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (18 April 1802– 5 December 1864), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1825 to 1848, was a British statesman, orator, and writer.
Life
Carlisle was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of ...
, was his elder brother.
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Naval and political career
He served in the Royal Navy
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and achieved the rank of admiral in 1870,
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
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