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Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Suffield
GCVO KCB PC JP DL
Master of the Buckhounds
In office
17 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
MonarchQueen Victoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded byThe Marquess of Waterford
Succeeded byThe Earl of Coventry
Personal details
Born2 January 1830
Died9 April 1914 (1914-04-10) (aged 84)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)(1) Cecilia Baring (d. 1911)
(2) Frances Amelia Jessie Eliot Gabbett
Children11

Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield GCVO KCB PC JP DL (2 January 1830 – 9 April 1914), was a British peer, courtier and Liberal politician. A close friend of Edward VII, he served as a Lord of the Bedchamber and Lord-in-waiting to the King. He also held political office as Master of the Buckhounds under William Gladstone between February and July 1886.

Background and education

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Harbord was a son of Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield. He was educated at King's College School. His father died in 1835 and in 1853, his childless, elder half-brother (his father's successor) died and Harbord inherited the title.[1] He served for a few years as an officer in the 7th Hussars.[2]

Political career

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Suffield

Lord Suffield was appointed a Lord-in-waiting in 1868 in William Gladstone's first administration,[3] a post he held until 1872.[4] The latter year he was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales,[5] to whom he was a close friend. He was chief of staff to the Prince of Wales during the Prince's expedition to India in 1875–1876.[6] He did not serve in Gladstone's second administration but was briefly Master of the Buckhounds from February[7] to July 1886 in Gladstone's third administration.[8] He was sworn of the Privy Council in February 1886.[9] He remained Lord of the Bedchamber until 1901, when on the Prince of Wales's accession to the throne, Suffield was made a Lord-in-Waiting-in-Ordinary to the King.[10] He was Master of the Robes at the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra in 1902.[11]

Harbord served as President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1863.[12] On 9 May 1866 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Norfolk Artillery Militia in which two of his younger brothers were already serving. In 1872 the Prince of Wales became the unit's Honorary Colonel and three years later it became the 'Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery Militia'. It became a socially exclusive unit in which a number of the prince's connections served.[13]

Family

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Lord Suffield married firstly Cecilia Annetta Baring, daughter of Henry Baring, on 4 May 1854. They had two sons and nine daughters:

  • Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield (14 June 1855 – 10 February 1924).
  • Hon. Cecilia Margaret Harbord (15 June 1856 – 6 October 1934), married Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, and had issue.
  • Hon. Alice Marion Harbord (23 June 1857 – 1940), married Charles Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon, and had issue.
  • Hon. Mabel Harbord (21 November 1858 – 11 February 1860).
  • Hon. Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord (23 February 1860 – 19 February 1957), married George Astley, 20th Baron Hastings.
  • Assheton Edward Harbord (20 January 1861, Harlestone, Northamptonshire – 18 July 1929) married aeronaut May Constance Blackwood
  • Hon. Judith Harbord (12 June 1862, Gunton Park, Norfolk – 4 February 1942).
  • Hon. Winifred Harbord (31 December 1864, Gunton, Norfolk – 6 January 1949), married in 1889 Captain Geoffry Carr Glyn.
  • Hon. Eleanor Harbord (7 January 1868, Gunton, Norfolk – 12 July 1936)
  • Hon. Bridget Louisa Harbord (20 December 1870 – 24 September 1951), married Sir Derek Keppel.

Lady Suffield died in 1911. Lord Suffield married secondly, aged 81, Frances Amelia Jessie Eliot Gabbett, daughter of Major Robert Pool Gabbett, in August 1911. Lord Suffield was also President of the Royal Cromer golf club in 1887 (in fact Suffield was the landlord of the golf club' land). His son and grandsons were also members of the club and land owners.[14] A substantial landowner, he owned 12,000 acres and had seats at Gunton Park, Norwich, and Harbord House, Cromer. His London residence was at 129 St George's Road.[6] Lord Suffield died in April 1914, aged 84, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles.

Honours and arms

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Coat of arms of Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield
Crest
On a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion couchant Argent
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, quarterly Azure and Gules four Lions rampant Argent and in the centre an Imperial Crown Or (Harbord); 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Fleur-de-lis Gules (Morden)
Supporters
Dexter: a Lion Or charged on the shoulder with a Fleur-de-lis Gules and gorged with a Crown Flory Chain reflexed over the back Azure; Sinister: a Leopard guardant proper gorged with a similar Coronet and Chain Or
Motto
Aequanimiter (Even minded) [17]


References

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  1. ^ Harbord family
  2. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953: 'Suffield'.
  3. ^ "No. 23451". The London Gazette. 18 December 1868. p. 6704.
  4. ^ "No. 23832". The London Gazette. 27 February 1872. p. 767.
  5. ^ "No. 23816". The London Gazette. 9 January 1872. p. 75.
  6. ^ a b The New York Times: LORD SUFFIELD DEAD.
  7. ^ "No. 25561". The London Gazette. 23 February 1886. p. 848.
  8. ^ "No. 25618". The London Gazette. 20 August 1886. p. 4080.
  9. ^ a b "No. 25560". The London Gazette. 19 February 1886. p. 796.
  10. ^ "No. 27288". The London Gazette. 22 February 1901. p. 1349.
  11. ^ "No. 27489". The London Gazette. 28 October 1902. p. 6871.
  12. ^ "Obituary", Cricket, 2 May 1914, p. 114.
  13. ^ Army List, various dates.
  14. ^ Royal Cromer Golf club, History Archived 17 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ "No. 24327". The London Gazette. 19 May 1876. pp. 3039–3040.
  16. ^ "No. 27292". The London Gazette. 8 March 1901. p. 1647.
  17. ^ "Suffield, Baron (GB, 1786)". Cracroft's Peerage.
Political offices
Preceded by Lord-in-waiting
1868–1872 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Master of the Buckhounds
1886 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baron Suffield
1853–1914 		Succeeded by


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