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FREDERICK HOWARD

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 340 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREDERICK See also:HOWARD , 5th See also:earl (1748—1825), son of the 4th earl, was See also:born in 1748. During his youth he was chiefly known as a See also:man of See also:pleasure and See also:fashion; and after he had reached See also:thirty years of See also:age, his See also:appointment on a See also:commission sent out by See also:Lord See also:North to See also:attempt a reconciliation with the See also:American colonies was received with sneers by the opposition. The failure of the See also:embassy was not due to any incapacity on the See also:part of the earl, but to the unpopularity of the See also:government from which it received its authority. He was, indeed, considered to have displayed so much ability that he was entrusted with the See also:vice-See also:royalty of See also:Ireland in 1780. The See also:time was one of the greatest difficulty; for while the See also:calm of the See also:country was disturbed by the American See also:rebellion, it was drained of See also:regular troops, and large bands of See also:volunteers not under the See also:control of the government had been formed. Nevertheless, the two years of See also:Carlisle's See also:rule passed in quietness and prosperity, and the institution of a See also:national See also:bank and other See also:measures which he effected See also:left permanently beneficial results upon the See also:commerce of the See also:island. In 1789, in the discussions as to the regency, Carlisle took a prominent part on the See also:side of the See also:prince of See also:Wales. In 1791 he opposed See also:Pitt's policy of resistance to the dismemberment of See also:Turkey by See also:Russia; but on the outbreak of the See also:French Revolution he left the opposition and vigorously maintained the cause of See also:war. In 1815 he opposed the enactment of the See also:Corn See also:Laws; but from this time till his See also:death, in 1825, he took no important part in public See also:life. Carlisle was the author of some See also:political tracts, a number of poems, and two tragedies, The See also:Father's Revenge and The Stepmother, which received high praise from his contemporaries. His See also:mother was a daughter of the 4th Lord See also:Byron, and in 1798 he was appointed See also:guardian to Lord Byron, the poet, who lampooned him in See also:English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.

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