(1887-04-11)11 April 1887 Sutton Waldron, Dorset, England
Died
10 August 1981(1981-08-10) (aged 94) Kensington, London, England
Spouse
Joan Frances Vere Thesiger
(m. 1920; died 1971)
Children
3
Relatives
Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood (grandfather) Sir Adolphus Liddell (grandfather)
Education
Marlborough College
Alma mater
Trinity College, Oxford (BA)
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
British Army
Years of service
1913–1938
Rank
Captain
Unit
Bedfordshire Yeomanry
Battles/wars
First World War
Western Front
Awards
Military Cross
Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC (/ˈlæsəls/LASS-əlss; 11 April 1887 – 10 August 1981) was a British courtier and civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the twentieth century, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both George VI and Elizabeth II. In 1950, he wrote the Lascelles Principles in a letter to the editor of The Times, using the pen-name "Senex".
Canning Lascelles and Frederica Maria Liddell, and the grandson of Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood. He was thus a cousin of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl...
include: AlanLascelles (1887–1981) "Tommy" Lascelles was Private Secretary to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Alexander Lascelles, Viscount...
The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom beginning in 1950, under which the sovereign can refuse a request from...
Sir Alexander Hardinge (inherited his father's barony in 1944), Sir AlanLascelles (declined as he felt titles to be a show of self-importance) and Sir...
be longer on the Throne." Edward's own Assistant Private Secretary, AlanLascelles, had told Baldwin as early as 1927: "I can't help thinking that the...
referring to Tey's novel, published seven years earlier. The papers of Sir AlanLascelles contain a reference to his conversation with Churchill about the book...
Adolphus George Charles Liddell and the maternal grandfather of Sir AlanLascelles. "Legal Obituary of the Quarter". The Law Magazine and Review (CCLVII):...
series of volumes. Sir AlanLascelles used the penname "Senex" when writing to The Times in 1950 setting out the so-called Lascelles Principles concerning...
Lascelles at the same time as he was given the earldom. The viscountcy is used as the courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom. Lascelles was...
of Queen Mary as the daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Sir AlanLascelles, Queen Elizabeth's private secretary and Princess Alice, Countess of...
Foreign Office, Home Office and King George VI's private secretary, Sir AlanLascelles, a ciphered telegram dated 18 April 1946 and crafted by Sir Albert Napier...
James Sir John Jardine Lord Jenkins of Hillhead William, Earl Jowitt AlanLascelles Ruth Lea Roger Liddle David Lloyd George, who resigned with Churchill...
Volume 38. p. 259. Sir AlanLascelles, Duff Hart-Davis (2006). King's counsellor: abdication and war : the diaries of Sir AlanLascelles. Weidenfeld & Nicolson...
ISBN 978-0304307579. Lascelles, Alan; Hart-Davis, Duff (2006). King's counsellor: abdication and war: the diaries of Sir AlanLascelles. Weidenfeld & Nicolson...
ISBN 978-0-470-04439-1. Lascelles, A. (2006). Hart-Davis, D. (ed.). King's Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of Sir AlanLascelles. London, UK: Weidenfeld...
dress formally was made by the Private Secretary to the Sovereign, Sir AlanLascelles, and Sir Austin Strutt, a senior civil servant at the Home Office, to...
earldom for his service as the last Viceroy of India in August 1947. Sir AlanLascelles, Private Secretary to the Sovereign; declined in 1953 as he felt titles...
Foreign Office, Home Office and King George VI's private secretary, Sir AlanLascelles, a ciphered telegram dated 18 April 1946 and crafted by Sir Albert Napier...
Governor General of Canada, although failed to obtain it. By 1945, Sir AlanLascelles, the private secretary of George VI, and Sir Shuldham Redfern, Secretary...
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