About Daniel Lascelles
Lived 1714 – 1784 (aged 69–70). Daniel Lascelles was a politician and plantation owner.
Daniel Lascelles (1714–1784) was a plantation owner, merchant and politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1752 to 1780.
Born in Barbados and baptised at St Michael's, 20 May 1714 he resided at Goldsborough Hall near Knaresborough Yorkshire which estate he purchased about 1756.
The second son of Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) and his first wife, Mary Carter
He was a partner in the firm of Lascelles and Maxwell, sugar factors, of Mark Lane, London; which, following the death of George Maxwell in 1763 became Lascelles Clarke and Daling.
Daniel married Elizabeth Southwick from whom he was divorced in 1751. He had no legitimate children. He died in Pall Mall London 24 May 1784.
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British politician, (1714–1784)
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Daniel Lascelles was a politician and plantation owner.
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