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George Harcourt

George Harcourt

British Whig and then Conservative Party politician

For the English politician, patron of the arts and gardener, see George Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt. For the physician and political figure in Ontario, see George Vernon Harcourt. For the British artist, see George Harcourt (painter). For the Buckinghamshire politician, see George Simon Harcourt.

George Granville Harcourt (né Venables-Harcourt and Vernon-Harcourt, 6 August 1785 – 19 December 1861) was a British Whig[1] and then Conservative Party politician.[2]

Lady Elizabeth Bingham, wife of George Harcourt by Sir George Hayter

Background

Harcourt was the eldest son of clergyman Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt.[3][4]

Political career

Harcourt was elected as MP for Lichfield in 1806 and which he represented until he was elected for Oxfordshire in 1831. By 1850 he had become the longest-serving member, and so became the Father of the House of Commons for the last 11 years of his life.

Family

On 27 March 1815, he married Lady Elizabeth Bingham (the eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lucan) and they had one child, Elizabeth Lavinia Anne (d. 1858, married Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon. It was through this marriage that Wytham Abbey passed to the Earls of Abingdon).[4] Harcourt's wife died in 1838 and he then married Frances Waldegrave (the widow of the 7th Earl Waldegrave and future wife of the 1st Baron Carlingford), a daughter of the noted tenor, John Braham.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 258–259, 298. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  2. [2]
    Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 442. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  3. [3]
    Record for George Granville Vernon-Harcourt on thepeerage.com
  4. [4]
    G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 49.
  5. [5]
    L. G. Pine. The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 54.
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