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Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle

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George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (Quarterly of six 1st Gules a bend between six crosses-crosslet finchée Argent on the bend an escutcheon Argent charged with a demi-lion pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory all Gules and above the escutcheon a mullet
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official convinced Lady Carlisle to speak on the subject of temperance at a drawing-room meeting of women. She soon became a successful platform speaker and vice-president of the United Kingdom Alliance, as well as president of the North of England Temperance League in 1892.
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In its early days, the marriage was close and filled with romance. George showered Rosalind with love letters and nude sketches, but the couple gradually drifted apart. They shared a dislike for alcohol, but little else; when the Liberal Party split on the issue of Irish
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Her husband left most of the family property to her for life and instructed her to divide it among their children upon her death. Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle, died on 12 August 1921 at her home in
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had estranged her from most of her children and friends. She strongly disapproved of her daughters' flirtatiousness and bitterly argued with her eldest son
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from her tenants and closing down public houses on her estates the next year. Howard gained further credit in 1889 when her husband succeeded his uncle
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suffragettes' violent methods. She presided over the federation from 1894 until 1902 and again from 1906 until 1915. She was elected president of the
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to be unfair and agreed to redivide the inheritance. Her daughter Cecilia succeeded her as president of the British Women's Temperance Association.
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Despite being plagued by poor health, Howard made use of her organisational skills. She joined Liberal Party women's associations and the
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supported her policies, but she refused invitations to join the mostly working-class and lower middle-class organisation.
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politician. For several years, Lady Carlisle refused to speak to her daughter Dorothy due to her marriage to the brewer
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Lady Dorothy Howard (d. 14 September 1968) married Francis Robert Eden (1877–1962) on 14 October 1913 and had issue
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in 1906, retaining both offices until her death. Lady Carlisle disagreed with the policy of her predecessor,
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Lady Aurea Howard (b. 1884) married Denyss Chamberlaine Wace in 1923 and Major Thomas MacLeod OBE in 1928.
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Hon. Michael Francis Stafford Howard (23 January 1880 - 9 October 1917) married Nora Hensman and had issue
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Hon. Oliver Howard (b. 14 March 1875) married Muriel Stephenson on 17 March 1900 and had issue
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The Countess of Carlisle allied herself with a small group of Liberal MPs, including her son
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and persuaded the organisation to support extending the suffrage to all women, but denounced
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on 18 August, with Geoffrey as the chief mourner. The surviving children found her
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Hon. Hubert George Lyulph Howard (3 April 1871 - September 1898), killed at the
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from 1879. She took part in election campaigns of her husband and father-in-law
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When Lady Carlisle's daughter, Lady Dorothy Georgiana Howard, was attending
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English promoter of temperance and women's political rights (1845–1921)
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four days later. Her ashes were interred alongside her husband's at
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Hon. Christopher Edward Howard (2 June 1873 - 1 September 1896).
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From Murray's Mother-in-Law to Major Barbara: The Outside Story
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at www.npg.org.uk Portrait held by National Portrait Gallery
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became a Roman Catholic bishop, their penultimate daughter
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Sex and Suffrage: The Life & Times of Rosalind Howard
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Lady Mary Henrietta Howard (d. 2 September 1956) married
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By the time Lord Carlisle died in 1911, Lady Carlisle's
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NPG 6206; Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle
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Coat of arms of Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle
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Lady Carlisle served as a model for Lady Britomart in
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My Memoirs: Recollections of an Archaeologist's Life
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Lady Elizabeth Dacre Howard (born and died in 1883).
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Charles James Stanley Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle
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Index


Dante Gabriel Rossetti
George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle
temperance movement
Alderley Park
Chelford
Cheshire
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
women's education
Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley
high church
Henry
Maude
low church
Algernon
Kate
atheism

George
George Howard
Liberal MP
Charles
canvassing
William Ewart Gladstone
occupation of Egypt
women's suffrage
home rule
Duke of Devonshire
Liberal Unionist Party
Castle Howard

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