George William Beaumont Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle (born 15 February 1949), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1963 to 1994, is an English hereditary peer. He inherited the earldom of Carlisle in 1994, upon the death of his father, Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle

Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle

Charles James Ruthven Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle MC , styled Viscount Morpeth until 1963, was an English peer.-Background and education:...

. A kinsman of the Duke of Norfolk

Duke of Norfolk

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, Lord Carlisle is also a co-heir to the baronies of Greystock

Baron Greystock

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 and Clifford

Baron Clifford

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He served as an officer in the British Army

British Army

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 with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers

9th/12th Royal Lancers

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, retiring with the rank of Major

Major

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Howard thereafter had various unsuccessful attempts to be elected as a Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 and then Liberal Democrat

Liberal Democrats

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 MP

Member of Parliament

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, MEP

Member of the European Parliament

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 and elected Hereditary Peer

By elections to the House of Lords

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, most recently finishing a very distant second to Viscount Hanworth

Viscount Hanworth

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 in the 2011 by-election to replace Lord Strabolgi

Baron Strabolgi

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. However, his voice is respected on Baltic States

Baltic states

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 matters, having lived for some time in Tartu

Tartu

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, Estonia

Estonia

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, and has been decorated with the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana

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, 1st Class.

Howard (now Carlisle) played an important role in securing memorial plaque

Commemorative plaque

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s to the 112 British servicemen killed in the 1919 operation which helped secure the independence of the Baltic States. These plaques have been set up in various places, eg at Portsmouth Cathedral

Portsmouth Cathedral

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 by the then First Sea Lord

First Sea Lord

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, Admiral

Admiral

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 Lord West in 2005, and by the The Queen

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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 on her visit to Tallinn

Tallinn

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 in 2010.

The 13th Earl's heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

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 is his brother, Hon

The Honourable

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 Philip Charles Wentworth Howard.

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