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A portrait of Lord Harewood by Joshua Reynolds. Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood ( c. 1713 – 25 January 1795) was a Barbadian-born planter, military officer, politician and peer.
Edwin Lascelles, fourth son of the second Earl, sat as member of parliament for Ripon. Sir Alan Lascelles, son of the Honourable Frederick Canning Lascelles, second son of the fourth Earl, was Private Secretary to both George VI and Elizabeth II.
A fines del siglo XVII, los miembros de la familia Lascelles compraron plantaciones en las Indias Occidentales y los ingresos generados permitieron que Henry Lascelles comprara la propiedad en 1738; su hijo, Edwin Lascelles, primer barón Harewood, que era dueño de plantaciones y esclavos, construyó la casa entre 1759 y 1771 para reemplazar a Gaw...
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. [1] He was the son of Edward Lascelles, a senior customs official in Barbados, himself a son of Daniel Lascelles.
The Lascelles family have lived at Harewood House in Leeds, Yorkshire, for over 250 years. The family’s wealth primarily originates from the West Indian sugar trade and their extensive participation in the trade in enslaved Africans.
When Edwin Lascelles started building Harewood House in 1759 he wanted nothing but the best for his new home. He employed the finest craftsmen of the time: York-born architect John Carr, fashionable interior designer Robert Adam, England’s greatest furniture maker Thomas Chippendale and visionary landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
84 85. Harewood House and the destruction of the Gawthorpe Hall. By Dr. Jonathan Finch, Reader, University of York. In 1771 Edwin Lascelles (1713-1795) took up resi- dence at his ‘New House at Gawthorpe’ which he had named Harewood House. Yet below the spec- tacular southern front of the house lay the ruins of .
