Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield (26 January 1734 – 4 February 1810), known as Sir Harbord Harbord, Bt, between 1770 and 1786, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the

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from 1756 to 1784 when he was raised to the

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Baron Suffield Baron Suffield, of Suffield in the County of Norfolk, is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The barony was created in 1786 for Sir Harbord Harbord, 2nd Baronet, who had previously represented Norwich as Member of Parliamen ...

Biography

Harbord was born Harbord Morden at Thorpe,

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, the eldest son of William Morden, later

Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet (c. 1696 – 17 February 1770), of Gunton and Suffield, Norfolk, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from between 1734 and 1754. Early life Harbord was born William Morden, ...

, and his wife Elizabeth Britiffe, daughter of Robert Britiffe,

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/ref> His father assumed by royal licence the surname of Harbord in lieu of Morden in 1742 according to the will of his maternal uncle,

Harbord Harbord Harbord Harbord (possibly 1675 – 28 January 1742) was an East Anglian landowner and Member of Parliament. He was known as Harbord Cropley from his birth until 1710. Life He was the eldest son of Colonel William Cropley of Shelland in Suffolk. ...

. Harbord sat as

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for

from 1756 to 1786. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1770. In 1775 Harbord commissioned

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to make significant additions to the Gunton Hall, the family's country house. In 1786 he was raised to the peerage as Lord Suffield, Baron of Suffield, in the County of Norfolk. Lord Suffield married Mary Assheton, daughter of Sir Ralph Assheton, 3rd Baronet, in 1760. He died in February 1810, aged 76, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his eldest son,

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. His younger son

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was a radical politician and anti-slavery campaigner.

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