George William Carlyle
d. 1781
Son of John Carlyle John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-born merchant, one of the founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what is now Fairfax Street. Carlyle was a … ; inherited 121 North Fairfax Street 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … in 1780. Killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (September 1781) in the closing campaigns of the Revolutionary War.
George William Carlyle inherited 121 North Fairfax Street 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … on his father’s death in 1780 but held the title only briefly. He was killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina on September 8, 1781, one of the last major engagements of the Revolutionary War in the southern theater. The property then passed to his nephew John Carlyle Herbert, son of his sister Sarah Carlyle Herbert Sarah Carlyle Herbert Daughter of ; her marriage to William Herbert transferred into the Herbert family, where her grandson was born in 1829. . [1] Wikipedia, Carlyle House Website
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Wikipedia, "Carlyle House," accessed 2026.
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