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Harcourt Lees

Sir Harcourt Lees, 2nd Baronet, 1824 portrait

The Reverend Sir Harcourt Lees (29 November 1776 – 7 March 1852 in Blackrock, near Dublin) was an Irish clergyman and political pamphleteer on behalf of Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. He is best known for his strongly worded pamphlets attacking Roman Catholicism.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Lees, Harcourt (LS796H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Jessica Harland-Jacobs (2008). ""Maintaining the connexion": Orangeism in the British North Atlantic World, 1795-1844". Atlantic Studies. 5 (1): 27–49. doi:10.1080/14788810701878317. S2CID 159941648.

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