Frederick Howard Carlisle
House of Lords
CARLISLE, Frederick Howard,
fifth earl of, British statesman, born 28 May, 1748; died in Castle Howard,
England, 4 September, 1825. He first distinguished himself in the house of lords
by advocating conciliatory measures toward the American colonists, and was one
of the three commissioners sent to America by George
III., in 1778, to endeavor to restore peace. He was viceroy of Ireland from
1780 till 1782, and afterward became lord privy seal.
He was an opponent of Pitt in 1791 and 1792, but supported the war against
the French in the latter year. He opposed the enactment of the corn laws in
1815. Lord Carlisle was the uncle and guardian of Byron, who dedicated to him
his "Tours of Idleness." He issued several pamphlets, and
numerous tragedies and poems, which he collected and published in one volume
(1801).
