Baron Suffield, of Suffield in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain

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. It was created in 1786 for Sir Harbord Harbord, 2nd Baronet, who had previously represented Norwich

Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)

Norwich was a borough constituency which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election...

 in the House of Commons

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 for thirty years. The Harbord Baronetcy, of Suffield in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 22 March 1746 for his father Sir William Harbord. He was a former Member of Parliament

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 for the rotten borough

Rotten borough

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s of Bere Alston

Bere Alston (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Dunwich

Dunwich (UK Parliament constituency)

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. Born William Morden, he had assumed the surname of Harbord in 1742 in compliance with the will of a maternal relative. The first Baron's eldest son and successor, the second Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk

Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk

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. His younger brother, the third Baron, represented Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons and was later a strong advocate in the House of Lords of the abolition of slavery.

His younger son, the fifth Baron (who succeeded his half-brother), served in 1886 as Master of the Buckhounds

Master of the Buckhounds

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 in William Gladstone's

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 third ministry and was admitted to the Privy Council the same year. His eldest son, the sixth Baron, was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

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 (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1915 to 1918. On the death of his younger son, the eighth Baron, the line of the fifth Baron failed. The title was inherited by the late Baron's first cousin once removed, the ninth Baron. He was the third son of the Hon. William Harbord, fourth son of the third Baron. He was succeeded by his first cousin, the tenth Baron. He was the son of Reverend the Hon. John Harbord, fifth son of the third Baron. Lord Suffield was an Admiral

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 in the Royal Navy

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. In 1917 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hamond (which was that of his maternal grandfather). the titles are held by his only son, the eleventh Baron, who succeeded in 1951.

Harbord Baronets, of Suffield (1746)

• Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet (c. 1697–1770)
• Sir Harbord Harbord, 2nd Baronet (1734–1810) (created Baron Suffield in 1786)

Barons Suffield (1786)

• Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield (1734–1810)
• William Assheton Harbord, 2nd Baron Suffield (1766–1821)
• Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield (1781–1835)
• Edward Vernon Harbord, 4th Baron Suffield (1813–1853)
• Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield
  Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield
  Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield GCVO, KCB, PC, JP, DL , was a British peer, courtier and Liberal politician. A close friend of Edward VII, he served as a Lord of the Bedchamber and Lord-in-Waiting to the King...
  
   (1830–1914)
• Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield
  Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield
  Lt. Col Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield CB MVO , was a British Army officer and British Conservative politician....
  
   (1855–1924)
• Victor Alexander Charles Harbord, 7th Baron Suffield (1897–1943)
• John Harbord, 8th Baron Suffield
  John Harbord, 8th Baron Suffield
  John Harbord, 8th Baron Suffield , of Gunton Park, near Norwich, Norfolk, was briefly a British peer and baronet, between 1943 and 1945.-Background and early life:...
  
   (1907–1945)
• Geoffrey Walter Harbord, 9th Baron Suffield (1861–1946)
• Richard Morden Harbord-Hamond, 10th Baron Suffield (1865–1951)
• Anthony Philip Harbord-Hamond, 11th Baron Suffield (b. 1922)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's eldest son the Hon. Charles Anthony Assheton Harbord-Hamond (b. 1953)