Background and Education
Howard was the fifth son of George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, and the Honourable Rosalind Frances Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts. He was also joint Secretary of Cambridge University Liberal Club from 1897 to 1899.
On the break-up of his father's estates (which had been left to his mother and subsequently to his sister Lady Mary, wife of Gilbert Murray), he was allocated Castle Howard.
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