Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood

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Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (7 January 1740 – 3 April 1820) was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Harewood was the son of Edward Lascelles, a customs officer in Barbados. The Lascelles family had made their fortune in the West Indies through customs positions and slave trade. He sat as Whig Member of Parliament for Northallerton 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 in Barbados with Catherine Mary LLOYD of COEDMORE (b. 1737), from which they had one child Edward Francis LASCELLES-LLOYD, Esquire of Coedmore 1761-1807. Lord Harewood married afterwards Anne Chaloner (c. 1742–22 February 1805), On May 12, 1761. They had four children:

• Mary Anne Lascelles (d. 1831), married Richard York.
• Edward Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (c. 1767–1814), died unmarried.
• Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood (1767–1841)
• Frances Lascelles (c. 1777–1817), married Hon. John Douglas (1756–1818), son of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton and had issue.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Daniel Lascelles Edwin Lascelles	Member of Parliament for Northallerton with Daniel Lascelles 1761–1774	Succeeded by Daniel Lascelles Henry Peirse
Preceded by Henry Peirse Edwin Lascelles	Member of Parliament for Northallerton with Henry Peirse 1790–1796	Succeeded by Henry Peirse Edward Lascelles
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Earl of Harewood 1812–1820	Succeeded by Henry Lascelles