Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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June 20.—Lord Harewood, (the late), left a fortune of at least £50,000 a year Mr Drew [solicitor] said.—He had £16000 a year in Yorkshire, at least £25,000 a yr. in the West Indies. £200,000 in the 3 pr. cts. besides a variety of property in different situations. He has left Lady Harewood abt. £4000 a yr. for life and she will have abt. £20,000 to dispose of.—To General Lascelles, £2000 a yr. for life and £10,000.—The bulk of his fortune He has bequeathed to his cousin E. Lascelles elder Brother of the General.

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• Atlantic slave trade (6) W/G ·
• Barbados (3) W/G ·
• British West Indies (1) W/G ·
• Coleman, Jane (1755-1824) (2), daughter of William Coleman and Jane Seymour, daughters Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington, and Seymour Fleming by Sir John Fleming (ca. 1730-63), second wife in 1770 of Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood W/G ·
• Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (2) W/G ·
• Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (2) W/G ·
• Farington, Joseph (1747-1821) (13), landscape painter and diarist, inter alia of Turner W/G ·
• Francis Lascelles (1) W/G ·
• Gilt-edged securities (2) W/G ·
• Harewood House (3) W/G ·
• Harewood, West Yorkshire (3) W/G ·
• Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet (1) W/G ·
• Slave plantation (1) W/G ·
• Slavery in the British and French Caribbean (1) W/G ·
• Slavery (22) W/G ·
• West Indies (9) W/G ·
• Will and testament (12) W/G ·

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