Sir Harcourt Lees, 2nd Baronet

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.

Life Harcourt Lees was the eldest son of Sir John Lees, Bt. (created 1804), by Mary, eldest daughter of Robert Cathcart of Glandusk, Ayrshire. He graduated B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1799, and proceeded M.A. in 1802. He was collated to the prebend of Fennor in the church of Cashel 21 November 1800, and to that of Tullycorbet in the church of Clogher in 1801. He resigned both stalls in July 1806. He died at Blackrock, near Dublin, on 7 March 1852.

Harcourt Lees succeeded his father as second Baronet in 1811