Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (7 January 1740 – 3 April 1820) was a British peer and Member of Parliament

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Harewood was the son of Edward Lascelles, a customs officer in Barbados

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. On the death of the childless Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood

Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood

Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood was a West Indian plantation owner of English ancestry.-Life:He was the son of Henry Lascelles and Mary Carter. His father split the family fortune leaving Edwin's elder brother Daniel as head of the business whilst raising Edwin as a lord of the manor over...

 Edward inherited the Lascelles family fortune, made in the West Indies through customs positions and slave trade. He sat as Whig

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Northallerton

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 from 1761 to 1774 and from 1790 to 1796. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Harewood, of Harewood

Harewood

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 in the County of York. In 1812 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Lascelles and Earl of Harewood, in the County of York.

Lord Harewood married afterwards Anne Chaloner (c. 1742 – 22 February 1805), On 12 May 1761. They had four children:

• Mary Anne Lascelles (d. 1831), married Richard York.
• Edward Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (c. 1767–1814), died unmarried.
• Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood
  Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood
  Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood DL , known as Viscount Lascelles from 1814 to 1820, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
  
   (1767–1841)
• Frances Lascelles (c. 1777–1817), married Hon. John Douglas (1756–1818), son of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
  James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
  James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton KT FRS was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death...
  
  and had issue.