Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood

The Right Honourable The Earl of Harewood KG GCVO DSO TD JP DL
Personal details
Born	9 September 1882 London, England
Died	24 May 1947 (aged 64) Harewood House, Yorkshire
Spouse(s)	Mary, Princess Royal (m. 1922–47; his death)
Children	George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood The Hon Gerald Lascelles
Mother	Lady Florence Bridgeman
Father	Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood

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 Mackenzie, 3rd Baronet.^[4]

The bride's attendants were:

• Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
• Princess Maud of Fife, daughter of Louise, Princess Royal
• Lady Mary Cambridge, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge
• Lady May Cambridge, daughter of the 1st Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice of Albany
• Lady Diana Bridgeman, daughter of the 5th Earl of Bradford
• Lady Mary Thynne, daughter of the 5th Marquess of Bath
• Lady Rachel Cavendish, daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire
• Lady Doris Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the 8th Duke of Richmond and Gordon.

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:

• George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (born at Chesterfield House 7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011) and christened at St Mary's Church Goldsborough 25 March 1923
• The Hon. Gerald David Lascelles (born at Goldsborough Hall 21 August 1924 – 27 February 1998)

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.

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

Ancestors 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

1. The London Gazette: no. 27405. p. 846. 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.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Harewood
• harewood.org
• goldsboroughhall.com