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Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood
Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (1713, Barbados - 25 January 1795) was a wealthy West Indian plantation owner of English ancestry.
==Life==
He was the son of Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) and Mary Carter. His father split the family fortune leaving Edwin's elder brother Daniel as head of the business whilst raising Edwin as a lord of the manor over their English estates. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and on a European Grand Tour, before fighting against the Jacobites (1745) and entering Parliament as MP for Scarborough from 1744 to 1754. He was later MP for Yorkshire from 1761 to 1780 and for 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 working plantations, more than of West Indian property and 2,947 slaves surrendered to planters' creditors as the planters defaulted on debts because of the American War Of Independence, worth £293,000 (about £28.3 million today). A great 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 but died childless and the title became extinct. The fortune passed to his cousin Edward Lascelles (1740–1820), 1st Earl of Harewood.
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