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Doris Mary Thérèse Baring, Baroness Ashburton (née Harcourt; 30 March 1900 – 9 May 1981) was an English socialite, part of the "Bright Young Things" of the early 20th century. Early life. Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt was born on 30 March 1900, the daughter of Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, and Mary Ethel Burns.
- Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton, (m. 1924)
Doris Mary Thérèse Baring, baronesa Ashburton (de soltera Harcourt ; 30 de marzo de 1900 - 9 de mayo de 1981) Es un Inglés de la alta sociedad parte de los " Bright Young Things" de principios del XX ° siglo.
Doris Mary Thérèse Baring, baronesa Ashburton (de soltera Harcourt ; 30 de marzo de 1900 - 9 de mayo de 1981) fue una socialité inglesa, parte de las " Bright Young Things " de principios del siglo XX.
Doris Mary Thérèse Baring, baronne Ashburton (née Harcourt ; 30 mars 1900 - 9 mai 1981) est une mondaine anglaise faisant partie des « Bright Young Things » du début du XX e siècle [1].
- Mary Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt (en)
- Early Life and Education
- Political Career
- Public Appointments and Other Interests
- Port Harcourt
- Queen Victoria
- Marriage and Children
- Sexual Misconduct
- Death
- Sources
- References
Harcourt was born at Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, the only surviving son of politician Sir William Vernon Harcourt and his first wife, Maria Theresa Lister. He was originally christened with the name Reginald, in honour of his father's university friend Reginald Cholmondeley, but when George Cornewall Lewis died just over two months after, he wa...
Harcourt was private secretary to his father, Sir William, as Home Secretary from 1880 to 1885; and again when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, and 1892–95. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Rossendale, Lancashire, from 1904 to 1916 and served as First Commissioner of Works in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's 1905 ministry (appointed...
Harcourt acted as a Trustee of the British Museum, Wallace Collection, the London Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery, which has a portrait of him. Harcourt was interested in natural history and sought to protect birds, fish and other creatures from extinction. He received an Honorary DCL from Oxford University and was also an honorary fellow...
Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State in southern Nigeria, is named after him. When the port was established in 1912, there was much controversy about the name it should receive. In August 1913, the Governor-General of Nigeria, Sir Frederick Lugardwrote to Harcourt, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, that "in the absence of any convenient l...
Harcourt's diaries contain a report that one of Queen Victoria's chaplains, Revd Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession repenting of his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to her servant, John Brown.
On 1 July 1899, Harcourt married Mary Ethel Burns, daughter of American banker Walter Hayes Burns and his wife, Mary Lyman (née Morgan), a sister of J. P. Morgan. Through her, the family acquired the famous "Harcourt emeralds". Mary, Viscountess Harcourt, was appointed a Lady of Grace of the Order of St John and then Dame Grand Cross of the Order o...
Harcourt was known in London society as a sexual predator of the young of both genders. He attempted to sexually assault Dorothy Brett, the daughter of Viscount Esher (allegedly a fellow paedophile), when she was about 15. Brett wrote of him that "It is so tiresome that Loulou is such an old roué. He is as bad with boys as with girls... he is simpl...
Harcourt died in his sleep at his London townhouse at 69 Brook Street (now the Savile Club) in the early hours of 24 February 1922, aged 59. He had taken an overdose of a sleeping draught, and there were rumours of suicide following accusations of sexual impropriety by Edward James, a young Etonian who later became an important collector of surreal...
Blake, Robert; Nicholls, Christine Stephanie (1986). The Dictionary of National Biography (Ninth Supplement), 1971–1980. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198652083.Viscount Lewis Harcourt (2006). Loulou: selected extracts from the journals of Lewis Harcourt (1880–1895). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 9780838641033.Bloch, Michael. Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians (Little, Brown, 2015) ISBN 1408704129 Chapter 1: Archie, Regie, Loulou and BillBook source
1. Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. London: Dean & Son. p. 443.
Mary Ethel Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt GBE (née Burns; 26 August 1874 – 7 January 1961) was an American-born British aristocrat and philanthropist.
Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt was born 30 March 1900 in St George Hanover Square, Greater London, England, United Kingdom to Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922) and Mary Ethel Burns (1873-1961) and died 9 May 1981 Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom of unspecified...
