Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet

Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet (c. 1696 – 17 February 1770), of Gunton and Suffield, Norfolk, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from between 1734 and 1754.

[1] He went to school in Thurlow and Bury St Edmunds before being admitted at Caius College, Cambridge on 4 February 1713 aged 16.

[1] As Morden, he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Bere Alston by his neighbour Sir John Hobart, 5th Baronet at a by-election on 5 February 1734.

At the 1734 British general election with the heavy financial backing of Robert Walpole, he stood and lost at Norfolk.

In the 1740s he began the construction of Gunton Hall designed by the architect Matthew Brettingham.