The Lasceiles family, the wealthy j heir whom Princess Mary is marrying I next month, is one of the typical oul English families rooted in -the soil for | generations and connected by marriage with half the- aris'ocracy of r he I couniry. It can be traced back to John de Lascelies, who was living at rtindkerskelle, now Castle Howard, m Yorkshire, in 1315, and as records ba- 1 ! came more ample, one ' Lascelies is found a colonel in the Cromwellian *army and two or three others are recorded as members of Parliament, i At the beginning of the eighteenth een- / tury Henry Lascelies appears as a j director of the East India Company, and. at its close Ward Lascelies was created first Earl of Harewood. Since then the family has taken aq assured position in English social, niilitary and official life. A, grandson of the, r.icond Lord Harejsyood was Sir Franks Lasceiles, who was British Ambassa-, dor at Berlin from 1895 to 1903, and is daughter is Lady Spring-Bice, it. one time Ambassador &.% Washington.
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Otaki Mail, 16 January 1922, Page 4
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