Alfred Lascelles

Sir Alfred George Lascelles KC (12 October 1857 – 9 February 1952) was the 20th Chief Justice of Ceylon.

He was appointed on 1 May 1911 succeeding Joseph Turner Hutchinson and was Chief Justice until 1914.

George Edwin Lascelles (a son of the 3rd Earl of Harewood) and his wife Lady Louisa Nina Murray (daughter of the 4th Earl of Mansfield), and was born at Moor Hill, Harewood on 12 October 1857.

He graduated from University College, Oxford, with a Bachelor of Arts and was admitted to Inner Temple in 1885 entitled to practice as a barrister.

[4] Lascelles had three daughters and a son, his son Wing Commander Francis Alfred George Lascelles DFC died in 1941 serving with the Royal Air Force.