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Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (7 January 1740 – 3 April 1820) was a British landowner, art collector, peer and, before which,

member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

. He was the son of Edward Lascelles, a senior customs official in

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, himself a son of Daniel Lascelles. On the death of his cousin, the childless

Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (1713 – 25 January 1795) was a wealthy West Indian plantation owner and enslaver who was of English ancestry. Early life He was born in Barbados, the elder son of Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) and Mary ...

, Edward inherited the family fortune made in the

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through customs positions and the

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. He vested much of his fortune in fine art. In 1799 he (or his immediate family benefit trust) was estimated to be the third-wealthiest small family unit in Britain, owning £2.9M (). He sat as Whig

for

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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 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. Edward Lascelles married Anne Chaloner (c. 1742 – 22 February 1805), daughter of Thomas Chaloner of Guisborough and Mary Finny, on 12 May 1761. They had four children: *Lady Mary Anne Lascelles (d. 1831), married Richard York. *Edward Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (c. 1764–1814), died unmarried. *

Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood DL (25 December 1767 – 24 November 1841), known as Viscount Lascelles from 1814 to 1820, was a British peer, slave plantation and other land owner, chiefly inherited art collector, and Member of Parliament. ...

(1767–1841) *Lady 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, KT, PRS (1702 – 12 October 1768) was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was president of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death. He also became ...

and had issue.

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Edward Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...

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