Edward Vernon Harbord, 4th Baron Suffield

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Edward Vernon-Harbord, 4th Baron Suffield (19 June 1813 – 22 August 1853), was a British member of the House of Lords and landowner in Victorian times.

Family background

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Vernon House, Park Place, London

The elder son of Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield, by his first wife the Hon. Georgiana Venables-Vernon (1788–1824), daughter and heiress of George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

Life

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A keen sportsman,[2] Vernon-Harbord married on 1 September 1835 the Hon. Charlotte Gardner (1810–1859), only daughter of Vice-Admiral Alan Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner,[3] after his father[4] suffered a fatal fall from his horse on Constitution Hill in 1835.[5] He then inherited the ancestral estates in Norfolk and London[6] as well as the Harbord family titles.

Suffield served as President of MCC (for 1836/37)[7] and Master of the Quorn (for 1838/39),[8] and his wife became Lady-in-Waiting to HRH the Duchess of Cambridge in 1852.

He died without legitimate issue on 22 August 1853, aged 40, at Gunton Park, Norfolk, when his half-brother, the Hon. Charles Harbord, succeeded as the 5th Baron Suffield.[9]

See also

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Arms

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Coat of arms of Edward Vernon-Harbord
Crest
On a Chapeau Gules doubled 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-lys Gules (Morden)
Supporters
Dexter: a Lion Or charged on the shoulder with a Fleur-de-lys 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
Æquanimiter (Even-mindedly)
Other versions

References

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  1. ^ "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, vol. III, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3812 SUFFIELD, B".
  2. ^ www.kentcricket.co.uk
  3. ^ "Group portrait of Lord and Lady Suffield with his sister, the Hon. Georgina Harbord and gamekeepers at Gunton Park, circa 1835 @ www.christies.com".
  4. ^ www.historyofparliamentonline.org
  5. ^ www.norfolkrecordoffice.org
  6. ^ www.soane.org
  7. ^ "Presidents of MCC, compiled by Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane @ www.lords.org".
  8. ^ www.quorn-hunt.co.uk
  9. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1876 edn, p 456 SUFFIELD, B
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Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baron Suffield
1835–1853 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baronet
(of Gunton)
1835–1853 		Succeeded by