Edward Vernon Harbord, 4th Baron Suffield

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

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.

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

Suffield served as President of MCC (for 1836/37) and Master of the Quorn (for 1838/39), 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.