Thomas Lascelles (engineer)


Thomas Lascelles
Landscape near Ganthorpe, Lascelles' birthplace
Born(1670-05-01)1 May 1670
Died1 November 1751(1751-11-01) (aged 81)
Pontefract, Yorkshire
AllegianceEngland
Great Britain
BranchEnglish Army
British Army
Service years1689–1750
RankColonel
CommandsChief Royal Engineer and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance
ConflictsWilliamite War in Ireland
Battle of the Boyne
War of the Spanish Succession
Cadiz 1702 Battle of Blenheim 1704
Jacobite rising of 1715
Signature

Colonel Thomas Lascelles (c.1670 – 1 November 1751) was a British army officer and engineer who held a number of senior positions between 1713 and 1750. These included supervising the demolition of harbour facilities at Dunkirk from 1713 to 1733, and serving as Chief Royal Engineer and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1742 to 1750. He died in November 1751.