Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Silver-gilt Presentation Key, inscribed ‘County Council of Cumberland Presented to the Viscount Morpeth, M.P., by T. Taylor Scott, F.R.I.B.A. on the opening the Samuel King’s School, Alston, 26th. October 1909.’, in Wheatley & Son, Carlisle, fitted case, extremely good condition £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Charles James Stanley Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle, was born in London on 8 March 1867, the eldest son of the 9th Earl of Carlisle and his wife Rosalind, daughter of the 2nd Baron Stanley. Taking the courtesy title of Viscount Morpeth, he was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, and, following graduation, worked as a lecturer in the university’s extension programme and in educational activities in the East End of London. In 1894 he was elected as a member of the London School Board, representing Chelsea, and served on the board until 1901, when he went with his Militia Battalion, Border Regiment to South Africa, with the rank of Captain, for service during the Boer War. Elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham South in 1904, he held the seat until he succeeded to the peerage, and also served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumberland.

Lord Carlisle married Miss Rhoda L’Estrange, daughter of Colonel Paget L'Estrange, on 17 April 1894. They had one son and three daughters. Upon the death of his father on 16 April 1911 he succeeded to the Earldom as 10th Earl of Carlisle, as well as the subsidiary titles of Viscount Morpeth and Baron Dacre. He died in London less than a year later on 20 January 1912, and was succeeded to the Earldom by his son. The title is extant, with the present earl being the recipient’s great-grandson.