Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood

Son of Henry Lascelles (1690-1753) and Mary Carter. MP for various constituencies 1744-1790. His father Henry and brother Daniel (q.v. 1714-1784) were also MPs.

Edward Lascelles was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 324 acres of land in St Thomas-in-the-East and 18 acres of land in St Dorothy, total 342 acres.

Owner of 109 enslaved people and 367 stock in St Ann, Jamaica, in 1792.

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/lascelles-edwin-1713-95 [accessed 13/01/2015]. For the history of the Lascelles family, see S. D. Smith, Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic. The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006).

'A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.