Paternal Family Tree: Lascelles
On 22nd August 1672 [his father] Daniel Lascelles [aged 16] and [his mother] Margaret Metcalfe were married.
In 1690 Henry Lascelles was born to Daniel Lascelles [aged 34] and Margaret Metcalfe.
In 1690 [his mother] Margaret Metcalfe died.
Before 25th February 1702 [his father] Daniel Lascelles [aged 46] and [his step-mother] Mary Lascelles [aged 40] were married. They were second cousins.
In 1713 [his son] Edwin Lascelles 1st Baron Harewood was born to Henry Lascelles [aged 23] at Barbados. He married (1) 5th January 1747 Elizabeth Dawes, daughter of Darcy Dawes 4th Baronet and Sarah Roundell Lady Dawes (2) 31st March 1770 Jane Coleman Baroness Harewood.
In 1715 brothers Henry Lascelles [aged 25], customs collector for Bridgetown, Barbados, George Lascelles [aged 34] and Edward Lascelles [aged 12] founded a London commission house to import sugar from the West Indies.
On 5th September 1734 [his father] Daniel Lascelles [aged 78] died. He was buried at St Lawrence's Church, Kirkby Sigston [Map].
Around 1735 Henry Lascelles [aged 45] returned to England from Barbados and purchased the manors of Gawthorpe [Map] and Harewood [Map] in Yorkshire and obtained lucrative government contracts to victual British troops and wounded seamen in Jamaica, Barbados and the Leeward Isles. Using the contacts he made, he financed slave ships through Lascelles and Maxwell and offered loans and mortgages to Barbados plantation owners.
Between 1736 and 1743 Henry Lascelles [aged 46] joined with eight other merchants to create a series of permanently moored vessels off the coast of Guinea to receive enslaved Africans for shipment to the Caribbean. He invested his wealth in the East India Company, which was heavily involved in the East African Slave Trade, becoming a company director by 1740.
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In 1743 George Maxwell of Haddingtonshire and Barbados joined brothers Henry Lascelles [aged 53], George Lascelles and Edward Lascelles [aged 40], as partner and the commission house was renamed Lascelles and Maxwell.
On 5th January 1747 [his son] Edwin Lascelles 1st Baron Harewood [aged 34] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Dawes [aged 21] were married.
On 16th October 1753 Henry Lascelles [aged 63] died.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Lascelles 
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Lascelles
Grandfather: Francis Lascelles
father: Daniel Lascelles
Great x 2 Grandfather: George St Quintin
Great x 1 Grandfather: William St Quintin
Grandmother: Frances St Quintin
Grandfather: William Metcalfe of Northallerton
mother: Margaret Metcalfe