Background
Lascelles was born in 1624, the son of William Lascelles and Elizabeth Wadeson.
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Thomas Lascelles
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Career
During the Commonwealth period, Thomas was a Captain in the army of Parliament (a Parliamentary note making it clear he had been in service since 1644) and served under Major General Thomas Harrison during the 1650s. He may well be the same man responsible for the capture on 1 April 1650 of Royalist privateer Captain Joseph Constant and his 30-man Dutch crew. After Constant"s being sighted off the Yorkshire coast by a local fisherman, Lassells and Robert Colman led an attack party which surprised and captured them.
In 1654 Thomas acquired Mount Grace Charterhouse and transformed part of the western range of the outer court into a house.
This remains as a rare example of Commonwealth building in the United Kingdom.
There were several gentlemen of the name in Yorkshire around this time who were probably related. After a gap of nearly thirty years, this Thomas was returned again in 1689 and 1690, and then for the final time in 1695.
In addition to his role as Member of Parliament, he served as "Housekeeper of the Excise Office" from 1693, with a salary of 200 pounds per annum, and was a captain of militia at the time of his death. Lascelles died in 1697 and was buried at Northallerton on 4 November 1697.
None of his descendants sat in Parliament.
Membership
Another Thomas Lascelles elected Member of the Parliament for Northallerton in the Convention Parliament of 1660, has been misidentified as the same already deceased manitoba
