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36 CARLISLE at Castle Howard. Her admon. 20 July 1749. He w., 2ndly, 8 June 1 743, in Grosvenor Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq., Isabella,(*) da. of William (Byron), 4th Baron Byron of Rochdale, by his 3rd wife, Frances, da. of William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton. He d. at York, 3 Sep. 1758, and was bur. at Castle Howard, aged 64. Will pr. 1759. His widow m., 10 Dec. 1759 (by spec, lie), at Whitehall, St. Margaret's, Westm., Sir William Musgrave, 6th Bart. [S. 1638], of Hayton Castle, Cumber- land, who d. s.p., 3 Jan. 1800, aged 63. She, who was b. 10 Nov. 1721, d. 22 Jan. 1795. [Charles Howard, styled Viscount Morpeth, ist s. and h. ap. by ist wife, bap. 22 May 1719, at St. James's, Westm. M.P. (Whig) for co. York, May 1741 till his death. He d. of consumption, unm., v.p.y 9 Aug. 1 741, and was bur. at Castle Howard, aged 22.] [Robert Howard, styled Viscount Morpeth, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. ap. by ist wife, b. 9 Feb., and bap. 4 Mar. 1725/6, at St. Anne's, Westm. He d. unm., v.p., 20 Oct. 1743, and was bur. at Castle Howard, aged 17.] VIII. 1758. 5. Frederick (Howard), Earl of Carlisle, £s?c., yst. but only surv. s. and h. by 2nd wife, b. 28 May, and bap. 19 June 1748, at St. Anne's, Westm. Ed. at Eton, and at King's Coll. Cambridge. K.T. 23 Dec. 1767, being invested at Turin, 27 Feb. 1768; P.C. 13 June 1777; Treasurer of the Household, 1777-79; Commissioner to treat with America, 1778; First Lord of Trade, 1779-80; Lord Lieut, of Ireland, i78o-82;() Lord Lieut, of the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1780-82 and 1 799-1 807; Lord Steward of the Household, 1782-83; Privy Seal, Apr. to Dec. 1783; nom. and inv. K.G. 12 June 1793 (having previously resigned the Order of the Thistle),() and inst. 29 May 1801. He m., 11 Mar. 1770, by spec, lie, at her father's house in Whitehall, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Margaret Caroline, yst. da. of Granville (Leveson-Gower), ist Marquess of Stafford, by his ist wife, Louisa, da. of Scrope (Egerton), Duke of Bridgwater. She, who was b. 2 Nov. 1 753, d'. at Castle Howard, 27 Jan., and was /^«r. 5 Feb. 1824, at York (^) Lady M. Montagu writes, 1 8 Oct. 1 748, " I know the young Lady C, she is very agreeable, but if I am not mistaken in her inclinations, they are very gay." Ten years later (31 Oct. 1758) she writes, "[Lord Carlisle] was my friend as well as my acquaintance, and a man of uncommon probity and good nature. I think he has shewed it by the disposition of his will in the favour of a lady he had no reason to esteem." V.G. () On his government of Ireland, Lecky remarks that he seems personally to have been much respected, and not to have relied for its success on wholesale corruption, as his predecessors had done. V.G. (■=) He was one of the 14 (ordinary) Knights of the Thistle who have been elected, also, to the Garter. See ante vol. i, p. 16, note " d," where, however, the Duke of Buccleuch (1897), and the Duke of Argyll (1911) are omitted. The latter retained the Thistle.