He won election as a Whig, and focused on free trade and the abolition of monopolies.
[3] In 1834, while stationed at Stephens Barracks in Kilkenny, Howard was travelling in a curricle near Bagenalstown, when the horse bolted.
He attempted to jump clear of the vehicle, but hit his head hard and died two days later.
[2][4] Had he survived three more decades, he would have succeeded his elder brother, George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle, who died unmarried in 1862.
His younger brother William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle instead succeeded.