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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 William Ewart Gladstone before ...
Oktober 1827 in York, Yorkshire; † 1. Oktober 1904 in Nuneham Courtnay, Oxfordshire) war ein britischer Journalist, Rechtsanwalt und Politiker der Liberal Party, der zwischen 1868 und seinem Tod 1904 Mitglied des House of Commons war und sowohl Innenminister als auch Schatzkanzler war.
Vernon Harcourt was also instrumental in shaping the activity of the YPS towards active research and presentation of results. In January 1823 he indicated that the chief aim of the Society was to be mainly research on Yorkshire geology.
Rev. William Venables-Vernon Harcourt (1789 – April 1871) was an English cleric, founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, canon residentiary of the York Cathedral, and later rector of Bolton Percy.
By Professor Ian Machin. 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 ...
William Vernon Harcourt ist der Name folgender Personen: William Vernon Harcourt (Naturforscher) (1789–1871), britischer Geistlicher und Naturforscher; William Vernon Harcourt (Politiker) (1827–1904), britischer Jurist und Politiker
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.
