George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe
- George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe
Major George Anthony Geoffrey Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, JP (22 May 1920 – 27 November 1984) was a British politician, soldier and media man.
Howard was a younger son of Geoffrey William Algernon 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 1952 Howard was appointed to the office of Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire
He was chairman of the BBC from 1980 to 1983. Afterwards he became a life peer with the title Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, of Henderskelfe in the County of North Yorkshire.
He was married to Lady Cecilia Blanche Genevieve FitzRoy, the daughter of the 8th Duke of Grafton; they had four sons. He owned the country mansion Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, which was televised in "Brideshead Revisited" in 1981. He died from cancer.
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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/chairmen.pdf History of BBC Chairmen]
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