Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood

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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Harewood
KG GCVO DSO TD JP DL
Personal details
Born(1882-09-09)9 September 1882
London, England
Died24 May 1947(1947-05-24) (aged 64)
Harewood House, Yorkshire
Spouse(s)Mary, Princess Royal
(m. 1922–47; his death)
ChildrenGeorge Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
The Hon Gerald Lascelles
Parents

Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood KG GCVO DSO TD JP DL (9 September 1882 – 24 May 1947), styled The Honourable Henry Lascelles before 1892 and Viscount Lascelles between 1892 and 1929, was a British soldier, peer and a Yorkshire landowner. He was the son-in-law of King George V and Queen Mary.

Background

Lascelles was the son of Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood and Lady Florence Bridgeman.

Military career

Lascelles attended the Royal Military College before being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards on 12 February 1902.[1] He went on to command the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards during the First World War. After the war, Lascelles remained interested in local Yorkshire issues and events, often contributing to the Leeds Board of Management. He was president of the Yorkshire Rural Community Council.[2][3]

Marriage and family

A 1922 wedding portrait of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles

Lord Harewood married Princess Mary, only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, at Westminster Abbey, on 28 February 1922. His best man was Sir Victor Audley Falconer Mackenzie, 3rd Bt.[4]

The bride's attendants were:

After their marriage, Lord and Lady Harewood split their time between their homes; Chesterfield House (destroyed after the Second World War) in London, Goldsborough Hall, at Harwood Estate and Harewood House itself, in Yorkshire, which became their family home in the 1929. They had two children:

Lord Harewood, a Freemason, served as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England from 1942-47. He died of a heart attack at the age of 64 at his home, Harewood House.

Legacy

Lord Harewood's arms[5]

Harry Gray named his then new 1921 Burrell 8 N.H.P. Scenic Showman's Engine Lord Lascelles after him, an engine that still exists and is regularly rallied.[citation needed]

It is also widely understood that Virginia Woolf based the character of Archduke Henry on him in her novel Orlando, a tribute to her lover Vita Sackville-West. Henry Lascelles was one of West's suitors.[6]

Styles of address

  • 1882-1892: The Honourable Henry G. C. Lascelles
  • 1892-1918: Viscount Lascelles
  • 1918-1922: Viscount Lascelles DSO
  • 1922-1929: Viscount Lascelles KG DSO
  • 1929-1947: The Right Honourable The Earl of Harewood KG DSO
  • 1934-1947: The Right Honourable The Earl of Harewood KG GCVO DSO

Ancestry

Family of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
16. Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood
8. Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood
17. Henrietta Sebright
4. Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood
18. Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath
9. Lady Louisa Thynne
19. Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Byng
2. Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood
20. John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde
10. Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
21. Elizabeth Burke
5. Lady Elizabeth de Burgh
22. George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
11. Hon. Harriet Canning
23. Joan Scott, 1st Viscountess Canning
1. Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
24. Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford
12. George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford
25. Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Byng
6. Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford
26. Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 5th Baronet, of Moncreiffe
13. Georgina Elizabeth Moncreiffe
27. Lady Elizabeth Ramsay
3. Lady Florence Bridgeman
28. Cecil Forester
14. Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester
29. Anne Townshend
7. Hon. Selina Weld-Forester
30. Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
15. Lady Katherine Mary Manners
31. Lady Mary Isabella Somerset

References

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  1. ^ "No. 27405". The London Gazette. 11 February 1902.
  2. ^ "Lord Harewood". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 13 March 1943. Retrieved 25 September 2015. ... Lord Harewood, speaking on the report of the Board of Management, said was impressed the Increase last .. (Also, 28 March 1929...BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. Mr. Middleton re-elected ...(as) treasurer, and the following governors were appointed to form the Board Management in connection ...)
  3. ^ "Lord Harewood's Letter". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 12 April 1937. Retrieved 25 September 2015. Lord Harewood's Letter Lord Bolton then read a letter from Lord Harewood. president of the Yorkshire Rural Community Council...
  4. ^ "'The Wedding of 6th Earl of Harewood and Princess Mary'". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  5. ^ Maclagan, Michael; Louda, Jiří (1999). Line of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe. London: Little, Brown & Co. p. 27. ISBN 1-85605-469-1.
  6. ^ "Orlando". sparknotes.com. Retrieved 25 September 2015.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire
1927–1947 		Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
1944–1947 		Succeeded by
Masonic offices
Preceded by Grand Master of the
United Grand Lodge
of England
1942–1947 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl of Harewood
1929–1947 		Succeeded by
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