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GEORGE JAMES HOWARD

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 341 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE JAMES HOWARD  , 9th
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earl, born in 1843, was the son of Charles,
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fourth son of the 6th earl . He was educated at
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Eton and Trinity, Cambridge, and, then being only Mr Howard, married in 1864 Rosalind, daughter of the 2nd Lord Stanley of Alderley . He sat in parliament as a Liberal in 1879-188o, and again from 1881 to 1885; and succeeded his
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uncle in the peerage in 1889 . His wife, a more active Liberal politician than himself, took a prominent
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part in the
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temperance
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movement and other advanced causes; and Lord Carlisle became best known as an
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art
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patron and an artist of considerable ability, whose landscape
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painting had considerable affinity to the
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work of Giovanni Costa . His position as a connoisseur was recognized by his being made one of the trustees of the
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National Gallery . His son, Viscount
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Morpeth (b . 1867), had a distinguished career at Oxford, and after various defeats in other constituencies was returned to parliament for South
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Birmingham as a Unionist supporter of Mr Chamberlain in 1904 .

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