Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood

Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (c. 1713 – 25 January 1795) was a British politician and landowner.

Edwin was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] and subsequently went on a Grand Tour in Continental Europe.

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).

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 slave plantations, more than 27,000 acres (110 km2) of land in the British West Indies and 2,947 slaves (which were surrendered to planters' creditors because they defaulted on debts due to the American War of Independence) worth £293,000 (about £28.3 million today).

His stepdaughters were Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington and Seymour Fleming, later noted for the separation scandal involving her husband Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet.