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.
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
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]
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