George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe


Major George Anthony Geoffrey Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, JP was a British politician, soldier and media man.
Howard was a younger son of Geoffrey Howard and Ethel Christian Methuen, and grandson of the 9th Earl of Carlisle and the 3rd Baron Methuen. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford and fought in the Second World War with the Green Howards, being wounded in Burma. In 1952 Howard was appointed to the office of Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire.
He was chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1980 to 1983 after being a governor for eight years. He was made a life peer 1 July 1983 with the title Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, of Henderskelfe in the County of North Yorkshire.
Howard married Lady Cecilia Blanche Genevieve FitzRoy, a daughter of Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton, on 11 May 1949. They had four sons:
Howard owned Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, which was televised in "Brideshead Revisited" in 1981. He died from cancer.