Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood

The Earl of Harewood.

Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood DL (25 December 1767 – 24 November 1841), known as Viscount Lascelles from 1814 to 1820, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Harewood was the second son of Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood, and Anne Chaloner. He was elected to the House of Commons for Yorkshire in 1796, a seat he held until the 1807 Yorkshire election and again from 1812 to 1818, and also represented Westbury from 1807 to 1812 and Northallerton from 1818 to 1820. The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. Between 1819 and 1841 he also served as Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Lord Harewood married Henrietta Sebright (d. 15 February 1840), daughter of Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet, on 3 September 1794. They had nine children:

• Frances Anne Lascelles (d. 1855), married John Thomas Hope, son of General Sir Alexander Hope and had issue.
• Emma Lascelles (d. 1865), married Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman and had issue.
• Edward Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (1796–1839), married (1) Ann Elizabeth Rosser, (2) Philippine Munster and died without issue.
• Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood (1797–1857)
• William Saunders Sebright Lascelles (1798–1851)
• Edwin Lascelles (1799–1865), died unmarried.
• Harriett Lascelles (c. 1802–1889), married George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield and had issue.
• Arthur Lascelles (1807–1880), married Caroline Frances Brooke, daughter of Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet and had issue.
• Louisa Lascelles (c. 1820–1886), married George Henry Cavendish, brother of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire and had issue.

His wife is mentioned in Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, in a letter from Mary Crawford to Fanny Price while Fanny is staying with her mother and father in Portsmouth: I was there, two years ago, when Lady Lascelles had it, and I prefer it over any other house in London (She is talking about a house in Wimpole Street.)

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Harewood

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Henry Duncombe William Wilberforce	Member of Parliament for Yorkshire 1796–1800 With: William Wilberforce	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Yorkshire 1801–1806 With: William Wilberforce	Succeeded by William Wilberforce Walter Ramsden Fawkes
Preceded by Edward Lascelles Glynn Wynn	Member of Parliament for Westbury 1807–1812 With: John de Ponthieu 1810–1812	Succeeded by Benjamin Hall Benjamin Shaw
Preceded by William Wilberforce Viscount Milton	Member of Parliament for Yorkshire 1812–1818 With: Viscount Milton	Succeeded by Viscount Milton James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie
Preceded by Robert Pemberton Milnes Viscount Pollington	Member of Parliament for Pontefract 1812 With: Robert Pemberton Milnes	Succeeded by Robert Pemberton Milnes Viscount Pollington
Preceded by Henry Peirse John Bacon Sawrey Morritt	Member of Parliament for Northallerton 1818–1820 With: Henry Peirse	Succeeded by Henry Peirse William Lascelles
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl FitzWilliam	Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1819–1841	Succeeded by The Lord Wharncliffe
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edward Lascelles	Earl of Harewood 1820–1841	Succeeded by Henry Lascelles