300 Life and Times of " The Druid" 



Carlisle) from 1855 to 1858 ; and again from 

 1859 till 1864, when he died. In addition, 

 he held many other high political offices. 



11 Lord Morpeth's Farewell. 



(From the Doncaster Gazette of October 



27th, 1848.) 



"George Frederick, sixth Earl of Carlisle, 

 at length sleeps with his forefathers, in the 

 Mausoleum at Castle Howard ; and his eldest 

 son, the true-hearted Morpeth, has, with 

 characteristic good feeling, ' devoted ' to the 

 people of the West Riding, the ' last signa- 

 ture of a name which has derived from them 

 its chief illustration,' throughout eighteen 

 years of a chivalrous political attachment. 

 The dead sire was not unworthy of the son. 

 It is true that the former's place among his 

 Peers, beneath the shadow of the time- 

 honoured Abbey of Westminster, had long 

 known him no more. He had not, like that 

 son, mingled ' frank and free with toiling 

 men ' in the busy hives of living industry 

 which dot the vast surface of the West 

 Riding ; nor had he, with every English 

 heart bidding him ' God speed,' crossed the 



