Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 146,116 pages of information and 231,598 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Augustus George Vernon Harcourt
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Professor Augustus George Vernon Harcourt (1834-1919).
1834 Born in London on the 24th December, the elder son of Admiral Frederick E. Vernon Harcourt (1790–1883) and his wife, Marcia (d. 1868), sister of the first Lord Tollemache. His grandfather was Edward Harcourt (1757–1847), archbishop of York.
1895-97 President of the Chemical Society. [1]
1898 Exhibited new form of the Pentane lamp[2]
1919 Died on the 23rd August.
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