Entries for the tag ‘Howard, George William Frederick (1802-64)’
7th Earl of Carlisle, known as Viscount Morpeth 1825-48, MP, statesman, orator, writer. 
- 7 May 1831: In a spoof letter to the new and liberal William IV, a Sheffield metalworker expresses, in dialect, his hopes for the Reform Act and the election then underway
- 14 October 1854: During the Crimean War, Queen Victoria visits the docks at Hull, and comparisons are made with the capital of our Turkish ally
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