Daniel Lascelles (6 November 1655 – 5 September 1734), English landowner and politician of Stank and

Northallerton Northallerton ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It had a population of 16,832 in the 2011 census, an increa ...

, North Riding, Yorkshire, was elected to the

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for

at a by-election on 3 February 1702. He did not stand for election again. He also served as

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in 1718–19. Lascelles was the son of

Francis Lascelles Francis Lascelles (1612-1667), also spelt Lassels, was an English politician, soldier and businessman who fought for Parliament in the 1639-1652 Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was a Member of Parliament between 1645 and 1660. One of the MPs wh ...

(1612–1667) of Stank Hall Kirby Sigston Yorkshire and his wife Frances, daughter of Sir William St Quintin (1579–1649), Baronet of Harpham Yorkshire.

, regicide (for which he was granted indemnity) and a dissenter had been a colonel in the Parliament's army and was MP for the North Riding in 1653. Francis's trade connections extended to Ireland and Barbados. Daniel Lascelles married twice. :By his first wife Margaret Metcalfe (died 1690) daughter and heiress of William Metcalfe of Northallerton, his nine children included: * George Lascelles (1681–1729) a

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merchant, who died at his home in

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, on 12 February 1729. *

Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) Henry Lascelles (1690 – 16 October 1753) was an English-born Barbados plantation owner. He was the son of Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734) and Margaret Metcalfe. He served as Collector of Customs for the British government in Barbados. He was a ...

:By his second wife Mary Lascelles (1662–1734): daughter of kinsman Edward Lascelles, merchant of Barbados and Stoke Newington London: * Edward Lascelles (1702–1747), father of Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood * Francis Lascelles, died young

References

* Eveline Cruickshanks and Ivar McGrath, ''The History of Parliament Online - 1690-1715'', 2002 * Simon David Smith, ''Slavery, family, and gentry capitalism in the British Atlantic, the world of the Lascelles 1648-1834'', Cambridge 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lascelles, Daniel 1655 births 1734 deaths English MPs 1701–1702 High Sheriffs of Yorkshire People from Northallerton Daniel