Bernard Henry Richard Harcourt van Cutsem (23 January 1916 – 8 December 1975) was an English horsebreeder and racehorse trainer.

[1] The family was said to descend from a illegitimate son of Henry II, Duke of Brabant, who was given a knighthood and an estate, called Cuetssem Velde, near Sint-Pieters-Leeuw.

By the 13th century, the family possessed considerable land, and, by 1514, a property known as t'Hof van Cuetssem.

[3][4][5] His father was Henry Harcourt van Cutsem (1877–1917) and his mother, Eleanor Mary Josephine Southwell Trafford.

[3] Van Cutsem attended Jesus College, Cambridge[2] and served as a second lieutenant[2] in the Life Guards during the Second World War.