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7 unusual facts about George Howard


BBC Radio Jersey

The station first aired on 15 March 1982, when it was opened by George Howard, the then chairman of the BBC.

Felix Kelly

These murals were commissioned by George Howard and paid for with the location fee from the Brideshead Revisited television production.

Five Stairsteps

Burke worked as a writer/producer (frequently with keyboardist Dean Gant and former Average White Band drummer Steve Ferrone) with The O'Jays, The Jones Girls, The Whispers, Keith Sweat, George Howard, Peabo Bryson, Bill Withers, and Perri, among others.

George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle

These plaques have been set up in numerous places, notably at Portsmouth Cathedral by the then First Sea Lord, Admiral The Lord West in 2005, and by the HM The Queen during her visit to Tallinn in 2010.

George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle

Carlisle served under Lord Melbourne as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1835 and 1841, under Lord John Russell as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1846 to 1850 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1850 to 1852 and under Lord Palmerston as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1855 to 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864.

George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe

He was chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1980 to 1983 after being a governor for eight years.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

He concluded that "It does not meddle with revealed religion—but unless I am mistaken the leaders of revealed religion will meddle with it." Lord Morpeth thought it had "much that is able, startling, striking" and progressive development did not conflict with Genesis more than then current geology, but did "not care much for the notion that we are engendered by monkeys" and objected strongly to the idea that the Earth was "a member of a democracy" of similar planets.


Christopher Fitzsimon

Attendees included Viscount Morpeth and Frederick Romilly.

Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead

The Bishop of Durham subscribed £150, the Earl of Carlisle £200, and so on, down to collections from workmen and the militia.

John Henry Foley

They included those of Lord Carlisle, Lord Dunkellin (in Galway) and Field Marshal Gough in the Phoenix Park.


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Frank Stephen Baldwin

Together they had seven children: Frank Pardee Baldwin (1873–1946) who was born in Philadelphia; Emma Virginia Baldwin (1877–1952) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as a librarian at the public library; Eugene Denniston Baldwin (1880–?) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as an insurance clerk; George Howard Baldwin (1890–1950); Lillian Isabel Baldwin (1886–1916); and Blanche Baker Baldwin (1891–1969) who was born in New Jersey, and worked as a clerk at the YMCA.

Helen Palmer Geisel

Her father, George Howard Palmer, an ophthalmologist, died when she was 11, and her grandfather, who was also a doctor and lived next door, died about a year later.

Jess Klein

After independently releasing her first two albums, winning the Telluride Troubador Songwriting Contest, and garnering several Boston Music Award nominations, she was signed to Rykodisc in 2000 by then-president George Howard.