Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield

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Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield (10 November 1781 – July 1835), styled The Honourable Edward Harbord between 1786 and 1821, was a British radical politician, anti-slavery campaigner and prison reformer.

Harbord was the second son of Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield, and Mary Assheton, daughter of Sir Ralph Assheton, 3rd Baronet. William Harbord, 2nd Baron Suffield, was his elder brother.^[1] He was returned to Parliament for Great Yarmouth in 1806, a seat he held until 1812.^[2] In 1819 he outraged his family be declaring himself a "Liberal" at a public meeting held at Norwich to petition for an inquiry into the "Peterloo massacre". In 1820 he returned to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for Shaftesbury.^[3] The following year he succeeded his elder brother in the barony. He was active in the House of Lords for the Whigs, especially in advocating for the abolition of the slave trade.

Lord Suffield married firstly Georgiana Vernon, daughter of George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon, in 1809. After Lady Suffield's death in September 1824, Lord Suffield married as his second wife Emily Harriet Shirley, daughter of Evelyn Shirley, in 1826. There were children from both marriages. Lord Suffield died at his London home, Vernon House, Park Place, St James's, in July 1835, aged 53, after a fall from his horse on Constitution Hill on 30 June, and was buried at Gunton, Norfolk.^[4] He was succeeded by his son from his first marriage, Edward. Lady Suffield died in January 1881.^[1]

Harbord's son with Emily Shirley, the Honorable Roger Harbord, married Elizabeth Pole Schenley, daughter of Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley.

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Coat of arms of Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield hide

Crest On a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion couchant Argent Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, quarterly Azure and Gules four Lions rampant Argent and in the centre an Imperial Crown Or (Harbord); 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Fleur-de-lis Gules (Morden) Supporters Dexter: a Lion Or charged on the shoulder with a Fleur-de-lis Gules and gorged with a Crown Flory Chain reflexed over the back Azure; Sinister: a Leopard guardant proper gorged with a similar Coronet and Chain Or Motto Aequanimiter (Even minded) [5]

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• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Suffield