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{{Short description|Barbadian-born planter, military officer, politician & peer (1713-1795)}}
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[[File:Joshua Reynolds PRA - Edwin Lascelles, Lord Harewood.jpg|thumb|A portrait of Lord Harewood by [[Joshua Reynolds]]]]
'''Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood''' ({{circa|1713}} &ndash; 25 January 1795) was a Barbadian-born planter, military officer, politician and peer.
==Early life==
Edwin Lascelles born {{circa|1713}} in the [[British Empire|British colony]] of [[Barbados]], the elder son of [[Henry Lascelles (1690–1753)|Henry Lascelles]] and his wife Mary Carter. His father split the family fortune, leaving Edwin's younger brother [[Daniel Lascelles (1714–1784)|Daniel]] as head of the business, and raised Edwin as a [[lord of the manor]] in the family's English estates. Edwin was educated at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref>{{acad|id=LSCS731E|name=Lascelles, Edwin}}</ref> and subsequently went on a [[Grand Tour]] in [[Continental Europe]].
==Military and political service==
He fought in the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]], and entered Parliament as MP for [[Scarborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Scarborough]] from 1744 to 1754. He was later MP for [[Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Yorkshire]] from 1761 to 1780 and for [[Northallerton (UK Parliament constituency)|Northallerton]] from 1780 to 1790 (inheriting the latter seat from his father Henry and his brother Daniel). By 1748 Edwin was installed as Lord of the Manor of Harewood and he built [[Harewood House]] from 1759 to 1771.
On Daniel's death childless in 1784 and their only other sibling Henry's death two years later, Edwin was left in sole charge of the fortune, to which he added 22 [[slave plantation]]s, more than {{convert|27000|acre|km2}} of land in the [[British West Indies]] and 2,947 slaves (which were surrendered to planters' creditors because they defaulted on debts due to the [[American Revolutionary War|American War of Independence]]) worth £293,000 (about £28.3 million today). Many planters depended on their sale of sugar and molasses to the American colonies for income.
He was made '''Baron Harewood''', of Harewood in the County of York on 9 July 1790,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13210 |date=15 June 1790 |page=373}}</ref> but died childless and the title became extinct. The fortune passed to his cousin [[Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood|Edward Lascelles]] (1740–1820), 1st Earl of Harewood.
==Marriages==
He was first married to Elizabeth Dawes, daughter of Sir Darcy Dawes, [[Dawes baronets|4th Baronet]], on 5{{nbsp}}January 1746–47. His second marriage was to Lady Jane Fleming, daughter of William Coleman and Jane Seymour, and widow of [[Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet]], in 31{{nbsp}}March 1770. His stepdaughters were [[Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington]] and [[Seymour Fleming]], later noted for the separation scandal involving her husband [[Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet]]. A picture of Seymour still hangs in [[Harewood House]].
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://thepeerage.com/p983.htm#i9824 thePeerage.com]
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2007/02/22/abolition_harewood_house_feature.shtml
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| title=[[Member of Parliament]] for [[Scarborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Scarborough]]
| before=[[William Thompson (died 1744)|William Thompson]] and <br />[[William Osbaldeston (younger)|William Osbaldeston]]
| after=[[Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet|Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bt.]] and<br />[[William Osbaldeston (younger)|William Osbaldeston]]
| years=1744–1754
| with = [[William Osbaldeston (younger)|William Osbaldeston]] 1744–47
| with2 = [[Roger Handasyde]] 1747–54
}}
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| title=[[Member of Parliament]] for [[Northallerton (UK Parliament constituency)|Northallerton]]
| before=[[Daniel Lascelles (1714–1784)|Daniel Lascelles]] and <br />[[Henry Peirse]]
| after= [[Daniel Lascelles (1714–1784)|Daniel Lascelles]] <br />and [[Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood|Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl]]
| years=1754–1761
| with = [[Daniel Lascelles (1714–1784)|Daniel Lascelles]] 1754–61
}}
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| title=[[Member of Parliament]] for [[Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Yorkshire]]
| years=1761–1780
| with = [[Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet|Sir George Savile]]
| before=[[Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe|Viscount Downe]] and <br />[[Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet|Sir George Savile]]
| after= [[Henry Duncombe]] and <br />[[Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet|Sir George Savile]]
}}
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| title=[[Member of Parliament]] for [[Northallerton (UK Parliament constituency)|Northallerton]]
| before=[[Daniel Lascelles (1714–1784)|Daniel Lascelles]] and <br />[[Henry Peirse (younger)]]
| after= [[Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood|Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl]] <br />and [[Henry Peirse (younger)]]
| years=1780–1790
| with = [[Henry Peirse (younger)]] 1780–90
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| title=[[Baron Harewood]]
| years=1790–1795
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