Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood


Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood DL, known as Viscount Lascelles from 1839 to 1841, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Background

Lascelles was born in 1797. He was the second son of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood, and Henrietta Sebright, daughter of Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet.

Military service

Lascelles was commissioned as an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards in 1814 and fought in the Battle of Waterloo when he was slightly wounded by an exploding shell when carrying the standard of his battalion of the regiment. He went onto half-pay in 1820, the year he began to serve part-time as a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry in 1820, but he did not fully retire from the regular army until 1831.

Public life

He sat as Member of Parliament for Northallerton from 1826 to 1831 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire between 1846 and 1857.
On 20 May 1848, he became a member of the Canterbury Association. Harewood Forest and the Christchurch suburb of Harewood are named for him.

Family

Lord Harewood married Lady Louisa Thynne, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath, on 5 July 1823. They had thirteen children:
Harewood and his wife resided for a time at the ancestral seat of the family, Goldsborough Hall in the eponymous North Yorkshire village.

Death

The Earl sustained a fractured skull and other injuries while fox hunting and died four weeks later in 1857, aged 59 years.