Gerald William Lascelles
Vanity Fair caricature by Spy
.CB (26 October 1849 – 11 February 1928) was a British author and Deputy Surveyor of the New Forest from 1880 to 1914, and writer of an important book on the area, Thirty Five Years in the New Forest.[1]
He was born at
Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) in the 1914 Birthday Honours.[4]
Alongside arguably his most famous work on the New Forest, he authored Sport in the New Forest and Forestry and the New Forest in the Hampshire volumes of the Victoria County History, The Art of Falconry, and numerous other (mainly sporting) publications.[5]
On 9 February 1875, he married Constance Augusta Mary FitzClarence Phillipson, the daughter of John Burton Phillipson, and had four children with her.[3]
- Gerald Hubert Lascelles (23 April 1876 – 13 July 1928)
- John Beilby Lascelles (19 February 1884 – 13 November 1907)
- Richard Lascelles (born and died 30 November 1887)
- Cynthia Rachael Lascelles (29 August 1885 – 6 September 1961), who married George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baron Poltimore.
References
- ^ Pasmore, Anthony. MEMOIRS OF A VICTORIAN DEPUTY SURVEYOR New Forest Notes. Lymington Times (1998)
- ^ 1901 England Census
- ^ ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ "No. 28842". The London Gazette (invalid
|supp=(help)). 19 June 1914. p. 4877. - ^ The New Forest Centre. Lascelles' Thirty Five Years in the New Forest, March 2010
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