Sir Edward Vavasour, 1st Baronet

The Honourable Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour, 1st Baronet DL (formerly Edward Marmaduke Joseph Stourton; 6 May 1786 – 16 March 1847) was an English landowner and baronet.

Early life Vavasour was born on 6 May 1786 as Edward Marmaduke Joseph Stourton. He was the son of Charles Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton and Hon. Mary Langdale. His elder brother was William Stourton, 18th Baron Stourton and his younger brother was Charles Langdale, the Whig MP for Beverley and Knaresborough. His mother was a daughter of Marmaduke, 5th Baron Langdale and his wife, Constantia Smythe (a sister of Walter Smythe and, therefore, an aunt of Maria Anne Smythe, who, following her second marriage became known as Mrs. Fitzherbert, the longtime companion of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV).

Career He gained the rank of Captain between 1817 and 1824 in the Yorkshire Hussars. On 27 February 1826 his name was legally changed to Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour by royal licence, after inheriting the Vavasour estates of his maternal cousin, Sir Thomas Vavasour, the seventh and last Vavasour Baronet of the 1628 creation. He was created 1st Baronet Vavasour, of Hazelwood, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 14 February 1828.

He served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire.

Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour, 2nd Baronet (1815–1885), who died unmarried. while on a pilgrimage to Rome.