Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

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The Earl of Oxford in a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1790.

Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (2 September 1726 – 11 October 1790), styled Lord Harley from 1741 to 1755, was a British peer.

Harley was the eldest son of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and succeeded to his father's titles on his death in 1755. He was elected as MP for Herefordshire in at the 1747 general election and served until he succeeded to the peerage. He was High Steward of Hereford from 1755, a Lord of the Bedchamber from 1760,and Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire from 1766, all until his death.

He left no issue, so that his title passed to his nephew Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, the eldest son of John Harley, Dean of Windsor and then Bishop of Hereford.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (1851 edition)
• GEC, Complete Peerage X, 269.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Thomas Foley Velters Cornewall	Member of Parliament for Herefordshire with Velters Cornewall 1747–1755	Succeeded by Sir John Morgan, Bt Velters Cornewall
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Essex	Lord of the Bedchamber 1761–1790	Succeeded by The Viscount Wentworth
Honorary titles
Preceded by Howell Gwynne	Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire 1766–1790	Succeeded by Thomas Harley
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Edward Harley	Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer 1755–1790	Succeeded by Edward Harley