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
Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home Mary Dudley Sutton, eldest daughter of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley, the son of the English keeper of Home Castle in 1547 during the Rough Wooing. They had a son James Home, 2nd Earl of Home, and two daughters: Margaret, married to James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray; and Lady Anne, married to John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale. His widow, the dowager Mary Countess of Home built Moray House in Edinburgh's Canongate. Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and 6th Lord Home (1566? – 5 April 1619) was a Scottish nobleman and Lord