Harbord Harbord (possibly 1675 – 28 January 1742) was an East Anglian landowner and Member of Parliament. He was known as Harbord Cropley from his birth until 1710.

Life

He was the eldest son of Colonel William Cropley of Shelland in

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and his wife Catherine Harbord, daughter of Sir Charles Harbord, surveyor general to

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. William was Catherine's second husband, after the death of her first (Thomas Wright of Kilverstone, Norfolk). Sir Charles had bought Stanninghall from the Waldegraves in 1648 and left it to his only son John Harbord, who also acquired Gunton. Harbord Cropley was educated in

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and

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before attending

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from 9 May 1694. His mother's brother John Harbord died without heirs in 1710 and left most of his estates to Harbord Cropley, who changed his name to Harbord Harbord. This enabled a minor political career - he was elected for

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in a by-election in 1728, voted for the

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in 1733, but did not stand for re-election in 1734. His first wife was Jane Rant, daughter of Sir William Rant of

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, Norfolk. She died by 17 May 1737, when he remarried to the widow Rebecca Wrench, daughter of Sir Benjamin Wrench, a doctor from Norwich - Rebecca's first husband had been John Marcon of Norwich. Harbord did not have issue by either wife and so passed his Norfolk properties to William Morden, son of his sister Judith.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harbord, Harbord 1742 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British MPs 1727–1734 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Norfolk 1670s births