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Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood ( c. 1713 – 25 January 1795) was a Barbadian-born planter, slave-owner, military officer, politician and peer.
He was the father of 1) the first Baron of the 1790 creation, and 2) Daniel Lascelles, represented Northallerton in Parliament. The Honourable William Lascelles, third son of the second Earl, was a Whig politician. His third son Sir Frank Lascelles, was British Ambassador to Russia and to Germany.
La casa Harewood (en inglés: Harewood House, se pronuncia /'hɑːwʊd̜/) es una de las mansiones campestres más grandes y suntuosas del Reino Unido, famosa por su colección privada de pintura y artes decorativas. Se ubica cerca de la población de Harewood, no lejos de Leeds, en el condado de Yorkshire del Oeste, Inglaterra .
LASCELLES, Edwin (1713-95), of Harewood, nr. Leeds, Yorks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood. Profile & Legacies Summary. 1713 - 25 th Jan 1795. Biography. Son of Henry Lascelles (1690-1753) and Mary Carter. MP for various constituencies 1744-1790. His father Henry and brother Daniel (q.v. 1714-1784) were also MPs.
The Lascelles family, later Earls of Harewood, amassed a large fortune from their West Indies plantations, worked by enslaved Africans. By 1787 the family controlled twenty-four Caribbean properties comprising 27,000 acres, and owned almost 3,000 slaves.
Biography. Edwin Lascelles, who took no part in the family business, was returned for Scarborough on his own interest. He voted for the Hanoverians in 1746 and was classed as a government supporter in the next Parliament. He died 25 Jan. 1795.
