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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 was 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 becoming Leader ...
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 first stood for Parliament as an Independent Liberal candidate for the Kirkcaldy District of Burghs in the general election of 1859, but was narrowly defeated. He was offered a safe Conservative seat in 1866 by Disraeli, but declined it.
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt, KC (14 October 1827 – 1 October 1904) was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman.
Political career. Harcourt entered parliament as Liberal member for Oxford, and sat from 1868 to 1880, being appointed Solicitor General and knighted in 1873.
Overview. William Harcourt. (1827—1904) politician. Quick Reference. 1827–1904. British politician and journalist; author of letters to The Times on issues touching international law under the nom de plume Historicus. See Letters by Historicus on Some Questions of International Law (1863). [...]
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Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) was educated by private tutors and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1851 and was called to the Bar three years later. In 1868 he entered Parliament as Liberal member for Oxford and from that date devoted himself to politics.
