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Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth

1719 – 1741

British politician

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Lived 1719 – 1741 (aged 22). Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth was a politician.

Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth (18 April 1719 – 9 August 1741) was a British member of parliament.

Howard was the eldest son of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle, and his first wife, Lady Frances, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. He gained the courtesy title of Viscount Morpeth in 1738 when his father succeeded to the earldom. He went on a Grand Tour, and after his return, was elected to the House of Commons as one of the two representatives for Yorkshire in May 1741. Like his father, he was an opposition Whig. He died at Castle Howard on 9 August. The "consumption" that caused his death appears to have been a "venereal distemper" which he contracted in Italy and which he concealed until it was untreatable.

In the subsequent by-election, the ministerial Whig candidate, Cholmley Turner, defeated George Fox, the Tory.

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Member of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain

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British politician (1719-1741)

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Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth was born on 22 May 1719.

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Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth died on 9 August 1741.

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Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth was a politician.

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