Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood

The Right Honourable The Earl of Harewood KG GCVO DSO TD
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Personal details
Born	(1882-09-09)9 September 1882 London, England
Died	Harewood House, Yorkshire
Spouse(s)	Mary, Princess Royal (m. 1922–47; his death)
Children	George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood The Hon Gerald Lascelles

Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood KG GCVO DSO TD (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. He went on to command the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards during the First World War. After the war had ceased (1918), 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.

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.

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 two homes, Chesterfield House (destroyed after the Second World War) in London and Goldsborough Hall, North Yorkshire which became their family homes throughout the 1920s. 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

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Lord Harewood's arms

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.

Styles from birth to death

• 9 September 1882 – 24 June 1892: The Hon. Henry Lascelles
• 24 June 1892 – 6 October 1929: Viscount Lascelles
• 6 October 1929 – 24 May 1947: The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Harewood

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

External links

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

Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Harewood	Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1927–1947	Succeeded by The Earl of Scarbrough
Academic offices
Preceded by Robert Crewe-Milnes	Chancellor of the University of Sheffield 1944–1947	Succeeded by E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Masonic offices
Preceded by The Duke of Kent	Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England 1942–1947	Succeeded by The Duke of Devonshire
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Lascelles	Earl of Harewood 1929–1947	Succeeded by George Lascelles