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Trinity College, Cambridge. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt KC (14 October 1827 – 1 October 1904) was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He served as Member of Parliament for Oxford, Derby then West Monmouthshire and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under ...
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In 1824 he was commissioned by the YPS to arrange fossils in their museum and with effect from the beginning of 1826 he was appointed the first Keeper of the Yorkshire Museum. He joined Vernon Harcourt in his research on Yorkshire geology and worked collaboratively with him as well as increasingly independently.
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt KC (14 Octubre de 1827 – 1 de octubre de 1904) fue un abogado, periodista y estadista liberal británico. Se desempeñó como miembro del Parlamento por Oxford, Derby y luego por West Monmouthshire y ocupó los cargos de Ministro del Interior y Ministro de Hacienda bajo William Ewart ...
Type: Biography. William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt was born at York on 14 October 1827, of a land-owning and clerical family which traced its ancestry to the Plantagenet kings. His elder brother, Edward Harcourt, was a staunch Conservative and for eight years an MP. William Harcourt’s views, however, began to take a Liberal ...
11 de mar. de 2024 · Sir William Harcourt (born Oct. 14, 1827, York, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Oct. 1, 1904, Nuneham Courtnay, Oxfordshire) was a British lawyer, journalist, politician, and cabinet member in five British Liberal governments, who in 1894 achieved a major reform in death duties, or estate taxation.
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Harcourt, Sir William Vernon (1827–1904). Liberal politician. Harcourt probably regarded himself as a failure. He was a brilliant lawyer, politician, and polemicist, who rose to be home secretary (1880–5) and chancellor of the Exchequer (1886, 1892–5), and expected to succeed Gladstone as premier, but was passed over when the latter ...
William Vernon Harcourt. Article. By Patrick Jackson, published 1st December 2004. Add to My HA. Email. Share. Tweet. 2004 marks the centenary of the death of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, on 30 September 1904, and this provides an opportunity to consider the extent to which Harcourt's beliefs and political attitudes are still relevant today.
