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EARLS OF CARLISLE - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS OF CARLISLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | CHARLES HOWARD, 1st earl of Carlisle in the Howard line (1629-1685), was the son and heir of Sir William Howard, of Naworth in Cumberland, by Mary, daughter of William, Lord Eure, and great-grandson of Lord William Howard, Belted Will (1563-1640), and was born in 1629. |
 | | Carlisle was the author of some political tracts, a number of poems, and two tragedies, The Fathers Revenge and The Stepmother, which received high praise from his contemporaries. |
 | | GEORGE HOWARD, 6th earl (1773-1848), eldest son of the 5th earl, entered parliament as Lord Morpeth in 1795 as a Whig. |
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