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Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (14 October 1827 – 1 October 1904).
1827 Born at York, son of William Venables Vernon Harcourt (1789–1871), who had a short career in the Navy and then became a clergyman; he also had a great interest in chemistry and was a founder of the British Association. He was both rector of Wheldrake and canon at York where his father, Edward Venables Vernon Harcourt, had been archbishop from 1807 until he died in 1847.
1847 Cambridge University
1850 Graduated B.A.
1851. at the Inner Temple
1854 Called to the Bar
1868-80 MP for Oxford
1866 Q.C.
1869. Whewell Professor of International Law
1873-4 Solicitor-General
1873 Knighted
1880 Appointed Ecclesiastical Commissioner for England[1]
1880-5 Home Secretary
1880-95 MP for Derby
1886. Chancellor of the Exchequer and again 1892-5
1893 Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer[2]
1895-1904 MP for West Monmouth
1898 Resigned Leadership of the Liberal Party
Married (1) Nov. 5, 1859, Maria Theresa, dau. of Thomas Henry Lister; (2) Elizabeth, widow of J. P. Ives and dau. of John L. Motley, the historian
1904 Succeeded to the family estates at Nuneham-Courtenay, Oxon.
1904. Died
See Also
Sources of Information
- Biography, ODNB
- Cambridge Alumni