Baron Suffield

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Baron Suffield, of Suffield in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1786 for Sir Harbord Harbord, 2nd Baronet, of Suffield, who had previously represented Norwich in the House of Commons for thirty years. The Baronetcy, of Suffield in the County of Norfolk, had been created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1745 for his father Sir William Harbord. He was a former Member of Parliament for the rotten boroughs of Bere Alston and Dunwich. Born William Morden, he had assumed the surname of Harbord in 1742 in compliance with the will of a maternal relative. The first Baron's eldest son and successor, the second Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk. His nephew, the fifth Baron, served in 1886 as Master of the Buckhounds in William Gladstone's third ministry and was admitted to the Privy Council the same year. His nephew, the tenth Baron (the son of a younger son of the third Baron), was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. In 1917 he assumed his mother's maiden name of Hamond in addition to that of Harbord.