CARLISLE, GEORGE W. F. H. 



CHASE, IRA. 



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CARLISLE, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK 

 HOWARD, seventh Earl of, born in London 

 April 18, 1802, died at Castle Howard, Dec. 5, 

 1864. He was educated at Eton and Christ 

 Church College, Oxford, where he attained a 

 high reputation as a scholar, being especially 

 distinguished for his skill in versification. In 

 1821 he obtained two of the University prizes 

 for his poems, the Chancellor's prize for Latin, 

 and the Xewdegate for English verse. He took 

 his degree in 1823 and was first class in classics. 

 At this time and until his elevation to the 

 peerage he bore the courtesy title of Lord 

 Morpeth. In 1826 he accompanied his nncle, 

 the late Duke of Devonshire, to Russia to at- 

 tend the Coronation of the Emperor Nicholas, 

 and was a great favorite in St. Petersburg from 

 his rank and his engaging manners. Soon after 

 his return he was elected to the House of Com- 

 mons for the family-seat of Morpeth, and one 

 of his earliest speeches (in 1830) was a de- 

 fence of the character of the Russian Emperor, 

 who was charged with great cruelties in sup- 

 pressing the Polish insurrection. This oc- 

 casioned, at first, some displeasure on the part 

 of the Liberals, with whom Lord Morpeth had 

 ranged himself on entering the House ; but his 

 evidently strong sympathies for Reformatory 

 measures and for every measure which would 

 elevate the working classes soon won their 

 confidence. After the passage of the Reform 

 Bill, in 1832, Lord Morpeth represented the 

 West Riding of Yorkshire from 1833 to 1844, 

 when he was defeated by the Conservatives. 

 From 1835 to 1841, under the Melbourne Ad- 

 ministration, he was Secretary of State for 

 Ireland. In 1844 he visited the United States, 

 and made an extended tour, carefully investi- 

 gating its institutions and the social and intel- 

 lectual condition of its people, and after his 

 return prepared a lecture on the United States, 

 which he delivered before the Mechanics' Insti- 

 tute at Leeds and to other bodies of working- 

 men, which was afterward published, and did 

 much to diffuse correct views in regard to the 

 United States among the community. In 1847 

 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the East- 

 Riding of Yorkshire, and from 1846 to 1848 

 he sat in the House of Commons for the Vest 

 Riding of Yorkshire. In October, 1848, the 

 death of his father caused his elevation to the 

 peerage as Earl of Carlisle, and under the Rus- 

 sell administration he took his seat in the 

 Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- 

 caster, which office he held from 1849 to 1851. 

 In 1853 he was elected Lord Rector of the 

 University of Aberdeen. From 1851 to 1855 

 he did not hold office, and visited the East. 

 After his return, he published a graceful and 

 pleasant volume of his travels, entitled "A 

 Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters." On the 

 accession of Lord Palmerston to the Premier- 

 ship, in 1855, he was nominated Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland and held the position till the 

 incoming of the Derby Ministry in 1858, when 

 he was superseded, but after the return of 



Lord Palmerston to power, he resumed the 

 Viceroyalty, which he retained till August, 

 1864, when he resigned, in consequence of ill 

 health. His administration in Ireland was 

 very popular, and he won the good-will of all 

 classes by his amiable manners and his deep 

 interest in all that concerned the working- 

 classes. In 1858 he published a work on the 

 Srophecies, entitled "The Second Vision of 

 aniel." Lord Carlisle had taken a great in- 

 terest in the reformation of juvenile delinquents, 

 and had not only encouraged and regulated the 

 establishment of reformatories throughout the 

 United Ejngdom, but had established a model 

 institution of the kind on his estate at Castle 

 Howard. He had also commenced the erection 

 of a church at "Welburn, near his estate, but 

 died before its completion. 



Throughout the struggle in which we have 

 been engaged for the past four years, the Earl 

 of Carlisle has ever been the fast friend of the 

 United States, and had, in public and in pri- 

 vate, avowed his firm belief in our final success, 

 and his earnest sympathy with our cause. 

 These avowals had drawn forth the hostility 

 and displeasure of many of the English no- 

 bility, but his manner and bearing, as well as 

 his intimate knowledge of American affairs, 

 were well-fitted to disarm prejudice and add 

 weight to the cause he advocated. The Earl 

 was unmarried, and is succeeded by his brother 

 the Hon. and Rev. William George Howard, 

 Rector of Landesborough in Yorkshire. 



CHASE, IEAH, D. D., an American Baptist 

 clergyman and theologian, born in Stratton, 

 Vermont, Oct. 5, 1793, died at Newtonville, 

 Mass., Nov. 1, 1864. He graduated at Middle- 

 bury College in 1814, and immediately entered 

 the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass. 

 In 1817 he was ordained as a Baptist minister, 

 and after a year of missionary labor in "West- 

 ern Virginia became, in 1818, a professor in 

 the theological school at Philadelphia of which 

 Rev. Dr. Staughton was the presiding officer, 

 and which was soon after transferred to "Wash- 

 ington. He continued in this professorship for 

 seven years, one of which he spent in Europe. 

 In 1825 he removed to Massachusetts, and took 

 a prominent part in the establishment of the 

 Newton Theological Institution at Newton 

 Centre, Mass. In this Institution he was a 

 Professor for twenty years, but resigned in 

 1845, to devote himself to theological and 

 literary investigations. In 1830 he visited Eu- 

 rope a second time, and was instrumental in 

 founding the Baptist Mission in France. Since 

 that period he has published " The Life of John 

 Bunyan ; " " The Design of Baptism, viewed 

 in its relation to the Christian Life ; " " The 

 work claiming to be the Constitution of the 

 Holy Apostles, including the Canons, revised 

 from the Greek; " " Infant Baptism an Inven- 

 tion of Man ; " together with a large number 

 of Sermons and Essays, and numerous con- 

 tributions to theological reviews on questions 

 of Church history and doctrine. 



