Editing Harewood House (section)

===The Lascelles family===
In the late seventeenth century members of the Lascelles family purchased plantations in the [[West Indies]], and the income generated allowed Henry Lascelles to purchase the estate in 1738; his son, [[Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood]], a wealthy plantation and slave owner,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/building_britain_gallery_03.shtml|title=History – British History in depth: Slavery and the Building of Britain|publisher=BBC|access-date=15 February 2019|archive-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216232224/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/building_britain_gallery_03.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> built the house between 1759 and 1771<ref name="Jones">{{cite book|title=Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales|last=Jones|first=Nigel R.|pages=133–135|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2005|location=Westwood, CT, USA|isbn=0313318506}}</ref> to replace Gawthorpe Hall, the original manor house on the estate.

Edwin employed the services of [[John Carr (architect)|John Carr]], an architect practising in the north of England who had been employed by a number of prominent Yorkshire families, to design their new country houses. The foundations were laid in 1759 and the house was largely complete by 1765. [[Robert Adam]] submitted designs for the interiors, which were approved in 1765. Adam made a number of minor alterations to Carr's designs for the building's exterior including internal courtyards.<ref name="Jones"/> The house remained largely untouched until the 1840s when [[Sir Charles Barry]] was employed by [[Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood]], the father of thirteen children, to increase the accommodation. Barry added second storeys to each of the flanking wings to provide extra bedrooms, removed the south portico and created formal parterres and terraces.<ref name="Jones"/>