Bernard van Cutsem

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

Ancestry and early life The van Cutsem family are Catholics, and of Belgian origin. The Van Cutsem 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. Members of the family migrated to England in the 19th century. His father was Henry Harcourt van Cutsem (1877–1917) and his mother, Eleanor Mary Josephine Southwell Trafford. They had two daughters: Eleanor van Cutsem (born 1949). married Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran. Rosamund Isabelle van Cutsem (born 1952).

In 1966, she left van Cutsem, resumed her maiden name, and they divorced in 1968. Bernard Van Cutsem died on 8 December 1975 at Westminster Hospital. He was 59 years old.