George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (12 August 184316 April 1911), known as George Howard until 1889, was an English

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, peer, politician, and painter. He was the last Earl of Carlisle to own

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Early life

Howard was born in

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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 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 maternal grandfather was

James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale PC (22 March 1782 – 25 February 1868) was a British barrister and judge. After an education at The King's School, Macclesfield and Trinity College, Cambridge he studied under a special pleader, before b ...

. Among his father's family were uncles

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 ...

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

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, where he joined the

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in 1864. After graduating from Cambridge he studied at

Heatherley School of Fine Art The Heatherley School of Fine Art is an independent art school in London. The school was named after Thomas Heatherley who took over as the school's principal from James Mathews Leigh (when it was named "Leigh's"). Founded in 1845, the school ...

in London.

Career

George Howard drawing of Edward Burne-Jones

Howard's art teachers were

Alphonse Legros Alphonse Legros (; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later was naturalized as British. He was important as a teacher in the British etching ...

and Giovanni Costa, and he belonged to the 'Etruscan School' 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 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossett ...

, being particularly close to

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August 183317 June 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding part ...

. The Howards lived in London in

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, in a house at 1 Palace Green, built for them by

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architect

Philip Webb Philip Speakman Webb (12 January 1831 – 17 April 1915) was a British architect and designer sometimes called the Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture. His use of vernacular architecture demonstrated his commitment to "the art of common ...

in 1870, and at

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. Among their visitors at Naworth were

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian literature, Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentar ...

William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British politican, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party. In a career lasting over 60 years, he ...

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and many others.

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...

was an intimate friend, and his wallpapers were used in Kensington, at Naworth Castle and at

when George inherited it. With Morris and Webb, he was one of the founding members of the

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Collections

Lord Carlisle's work can be found in a number of public and private collections, including the

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, York Art Gallery, the

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, the

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, the

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, the Delaware Art Museum, the

Collection and the

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. An additional Burne-Jones cartoon is in the private collection of Tomkinsons Stained Glass Ltd.

Political career

Howard was

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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

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Marriage and issue

On 4 October 1864, Lord Carlisle married

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Rosalind Frances Stanley, daughter of

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and the Hon. Henrietta Maria Dillon (eldest daughter of Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon). Together, George and Rosalind were the parents of eleven children: * Lady Mary Henrietta Howard (20 July 1865 – 2 September 1956), who married George Gilbert Aimé Murray, son of Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, in 1889. * Charles James Stanley Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle (1867–1912), who married Rhoda Ankaret L'Estrange, eldest daughter of Col. Paget Walter L'Estrange. * Lady Cecilia Maude Howard (23 April 1868 - 6 May 1947), who married Charles Henry Roberts, the Under-Secretary of State for India, in 1891. * Hon. Hubert George Lyulph Howard (3 April 1871 – 2 September 1898), who was killed at the

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while serving as a correspondent for ''

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'' * Capt. Hon. Christopher Edward Howard (2 June 1873 – 1 September 1896),

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, died of pneumonia at Slains Castle after contracting a cold at a shooting party * Hon. Oliver Howard (14 March 1875 – 20 September 1908), diplomat, who married Muriel Stephenson (1876–1952) in 1900. After his death of fever in

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, where he was British resident, his widow married Arthur Meade, 5th Earl of Clanwilliam. * Hon. Geoffrey William Algernon Howard (1877–1935), who married Hon. Ethel Christian Methuen, eldest daughter of

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. * Lt. Hon. Michael Francis Stafford Howard (23 January 1880 – 9 September 1917), who married Nora Hensman in 1911. He was killed in action in the First World War. * Lady Dorothy Georgiana Howard (6 August 1881 – 14 September 1968), who married Francis Robert Eden, 6th Baron Henley (1877–1962) in 1913. * Elizabeth Dacre Ethel Howard (12 March 1883 – 17 July 1883), died in infancy. There is a terra cotta effigy by Sir Edgar Boehm on her tomb at

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. * Lady Aurea Fredeswyde Howard (4 October 1884 – 15 January 1972), who married Denyss Chamberlaine Wace in 1923; he was granted an annulment in 1926 on grounds that the marriage was never consummated. She married Maj. Thomas MacLeod OBE in 1928. Lord Carlisle died in Brackland, Hindhead,

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, 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

Descendants

His son Geoffrey was the father of Dame Christian Howard and

George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe Major George Anthony Geoffrey Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, Justice of the peace, JP (22 May 1920 – 27 November 1984) was a British landowner, soldier, and peer from the aristocratic Howard family. He inherited Castle Howard, in Henders ...

. Through his daughter Lady Dorothy, Carlisle was a grandfather of Michael Francis Eden, 7th Baron Henley (1914–1977). His daughter Lady Cecilia was the mother of politician Wilfrid Roberts (1900–1991), who had four daughters.Roberts, Wilfrid Hubert Wace
in ''

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'' online edition, 1 December 2007, accessed 15 January 2023

Ancestry

References

* 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

External links

* *
Victorian Web page

at www.stmartinsbrampton.org.uk
National Portrait Gallery; his portrait of his wife Rosalind

National Portrait Gallery: his portrait of Edward Burne-Jones

National Portrait Gallery: his portrait of James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale, maternal grandfather

Tate Collection , View from the Front of St John Lateran, Rome
at www.tate.org.uk
Balliol College portraits of Benjamin Jowett and Mazzini
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