CARLISLE, GEORGE \VI LLI A M FREDERICK llowAitu, seventh Earl of (1802-04). An Eng lish statesman and author. Ile was horn in Lon don, .1pril 18, 1802. The eldest son of the sixth Earl, he bore the courtesy title of Lord Alorpeth. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where, in 1821, lie won the Chancellor's and the Newdigate prizes with a Latin and an English poem. In 1523 he took a first class in classics and graduated B.A. In 1826 he was at tachi• to his uncle, the Duke of Devonshire, in while abroad he was elected to Parlia ment as a Whig, and on his return supported the repeal of the Jewish disabilities in his maiden speech on 5, 1827. In 1830 he was elected representative for Yorkshire, and after the Re torm Pill, for the \Vest Riding. Under Lord Melbourne, he was Chief Seeretary for 'Ireland (1835-41). and his impartial distribution of pat ronage made him popular in Dublin. Reject ed in 1841 by the West Riding, lie was reelected in 1846, and remained one of its representa tives until his father's death (1848) seated him in the House of Lords. Under Lord John Bus
sell's :Ministry (1846-52), he was chief com missione• of woods and forests, and afterwards Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. When Lord Palmerston was made Prime :Minister in 1855, Carlisle was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a post which he held until the advent of the Earl of Derby's (government in 1858. Tie succeeded to the same oflhp again when Lord Palmerston was reinstated in 1859. In 1841-42 he traveled in the United Sites and Canada, and on his return described his visit in a series of popular lectures. He obtained fame as it literary man by these lectures and by another, The Life and Writings of Pope (1851). He published a tragedy, The Last of the Greeks (1525): .1 Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters 18541 : and a volume of Poems was issued after his death. lie died at Castle Howard, December 5, 1864.
is Viceregal Speeches, edited by J. Gaskin, ap peared in 1866.