George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle

Lord Carlisle's family arms, with quarterings

George William Beaumont Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle (born 15 February 1949), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1963 to 1994, is a British hereditary peer. He inherited the earldom of Carlisle in 1994, upon the death of his father, Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle. A member of the Howard family and a kinsman of the Duke of Norfolk, he is also a co-heir to the baronies of Greystock and Clifford.^[1]

Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, he served as an officer in the British Army with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, retiring with the rank of Major.

As Viscount Morpeth, he unsuccessfully contested Easington in the 1987 general election and Leeds West in the 1992 general election as well as Northumbria in the 1989 European elections for the Liberal Democrats.

Having lost his automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act, 1999 Lord Carlisle has stood as a Liberal Democrat in By elections to the House of Lords; his best performance was finishing a distant second to Labour's Viscount Hanworth in the 2011 by-election to replace Lord Strabolgi.^[2]

Lord 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 Knight 1st Class of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana. He played an important role in securing memorial plaques to the 112 British servicemen 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 First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West of Spithead in 2005, and by the HM The Queen during her visit to Tallinn in 2010.

Lord Carlisle's heir presumptive is his younger brother, The Hon Philip Charles Wentworth Howard (b. 1963).

Decorations

• Knight 1st Class, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana

Ancestry

Ancestors of George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle

16. George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle               8. Charles Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle                       17. Hon. Rosalind Frances Stanley               4. George Howard, 11th Earl of Carlisle                             18. Col. Paget Walter L’Estrange               9. Rhoda Ankaret L’Estrange                       19. Emily Ryves               2. Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle                                   20. Walter Hore-Ruthven, 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland               10. Walter Hore-Ruthven, 10th Lord Ruthven of Freeland                       21. Lady Caroline Annesley Gore               5. Hon. Bridget Hore-Ruthven                             22. Norman George Lampson               11. Jean Leslie Lampson                       23. Helen Agnes Blackburn               1. Charles Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle                                         24. Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale               12. Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale                       25. Lady Margaret Anne de Burgh               6. Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale                             26. George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry               13. Lady Alexandra Vane-Tempest                       27. Mary Edwards               3. Hon. Ela Helen Aline Beaumont                                   28. Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet               14. Sir Charles Seely, 2nd Baronet                       29. Emily Evans               7. Violet Lucy Emily Seely                             30. Richard Tassell Grant               15. Hilda Lucy Grant                       31. Lucy Ann Whiting

See also

• Castle Howard
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle

References

1. "- Person Page 1152". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 8, 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2011.

External links

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