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George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle KG PC (April 18, 1802 – December 5, 1864), was a British politician and statesman.
He was born in London, the eldest son of the 6th earl by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where (as Viscount Morpeth) he earned a reputation as a scholar and writer of graceful verse, obtaining in 1821 both the chancellor's and the Newdigate prizes for a Latin and an English poem.
In 1826 he accompanied his maternal grandfather, the Duke of Devonshire, to the Russian Empire, to attend the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I, and became a great favourite in society at St Petersburg. At the general election of the same year he was returned to parliament as member for the family borough of Morpeth.
He participated in various positions in the Whig governments of the era. In 1835 he was appointed to the Privy Councils of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
On April 2, 1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh,1 and in 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.
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On Bulmer Hill, about a mile from Bulmer village, is a monumental column, erected by public subscription in 1869, to his memory. It is inscribed:
- " AD MDCCCLXIX: IN PRIVATE LIFE WAS LOVED/ BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM/ BY HIS PUBLIC CONDUCT/ WON the RESPECT of his COUNTRY/ and LEFT THE BRIGHT EXAMPLE/ OF A TRVE PATRIOT/ AND EARNEST CHRISTIAN/ VIIth EARL of CARLISLE"
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- ^ Gilbert, W.M., Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh, 1901: 124
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