Edwin Lascelles was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician. He was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Ripon

Ripon (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1846 to 1857.

Lascelles was son of 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....

. He graduated B.C.L. from All Souls College, Oxford

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 in 1826, and was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple

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 in the same year. Returned MP for Ripon without a contest in January 1846, he was re-elected in 1852 and retired in 1857.

He died suddenly, of apoplexy.

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