Earl of Carlisle Castle and Henderskelfe (which later became known as Castle Howard) came into the Howard family. Lord Carlisle had earlier supported the Parliamentarian cause in the Civil War, and is supposed to have been created "Baron Gilsland" and "Viscount Howard of Morpeth" by Oliver Cromwell in 1657 (it is certain that he was summoned to Cromwell's House of Lords the same year as "Lord Viscount Howard"). He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He represented Morpeth, Cumberland and Carlisle in the House of Commons and served as Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland. On his death the titles passed to
Stately Pleasure Dome Stately Pleasure Dome Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country. Stately Pleasure Dome consists of glaciated and exfoliated granite rock that rises steeply from the lake shore; the very steep east side of the dome is popular with rock climbers, who gave the dome its name. The name presumably comes from the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The south face of the formation is popular with rock climbers and has over twenty