Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle

[1] Carlisle was elected Member of Parliament for Morpeth in 1715, a seat he held until 1738 when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.

He continued building Castle Howard commenced by his father to the designs of his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Robinson.

Lord Carlisle married firstly Lady Frances, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, in 1717.

His widow Lady Carlisle married as her second husband, Sir William Musgrave, 6th Baronet, in 1759 and died in 1795, aged 73.

[citation needed] A group of forty Venetian views by Giovanni Antonio Canal, Bernardo Bellotto, Michele Marieschi and others were commissioned or bought after his second Italian visit 1738—1739[5] through Antonio Maria Zanetti the Elder.