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  Harcourt - LoveToKnow 1911
HARCOURT, a village in Normandy, now a commune in the department of Eure, arrondissement of Bernay and canton of Brionne, which gives its name to a noble family distinguished in French history, a branch of which was early established in England.
Godefroi d'Harcourt, seigneur of Saint Sauveur le Vicomte, surnamed "Le boiteux" (the lame), was a marshal in the English army and was killed near Coutances in 1356.
The fief of Harcourt was raised to the rank of a countship by Philip of Valois, in favour of Jean IV., who was killed at the battle of Crecy (1346).
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 Simon Harcourt, 1st viscount Harcourt - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1721 Harcourt was created a viscount and returned to the privy councils; and on several occasions during the king's absences from England he was on the council of regency.
Harcourt married, first, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Clark, his father's chaplain, by whom he had five children; secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Spencer; and thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Vernon.
Simon Harcourt predeceased his father, the lord chancellor, in 1720, leaving a son Simon Harcourt (1714-1777), 1st Earl Harcourt, who succeeded his grandfather in the title of viscount in 1727.
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 Harcourt Hotel
Lewis Harcourt was born in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon, and was educated at Eton.
Harcourt received an honorary DCL degree from Oxford University, and was created the first Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxon, on 3 January, 1917.
Harcourt served as a Vancouver Alderman from 1973 to 1980, and as Mayor of Vancouver from 1980 to 1986.
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 thePeerage.com - Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt and others
     Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt was born in December 1661.
She married Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt on 16 October 1680.
She married Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt on 30 September 1724.
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 National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (H)
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856), Governor-General of India.
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858-1944), Diplomat and Viceroy of India.
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (1762-1847), Statesman.
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 Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1661 – July 23, 1727), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, only son of Sir Philip Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, by his first wife, Anne, daughter of Sir William Waller, was born about 1661 at Stanton Harcourt, and was educated at a school at Shilton, Oxfordshire and at Pembroke College, Oxford.
His son, Simon (1684-1720), who was MP for Wallingford married Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Evelyn of Wotton, by whom he had one son and four daughters, one of whom married George Venables Vernon, afterwards Lord Vernon.
Simon Harcourt predeceased his father, the lord chancellor, in 1720, leaving a son, Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Baron Vernon
The 1st Baron married thirdly Martha Harcourt, granddaughter of the 1st Viscount Harcourt.
He succeeded to the Harcourt family estates on the death of his cousin the 3rd Earl Harcourt and assumed by Royal license the surname of Harcourt.
Edward Harcourt was the father of William Vernon Harcourt, the grandfather of Sir William Vernon Harcourt and the great-grandfather of the 1st Viscount Harcourt.
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 1ST VISCOUNT SIMON HAR... - Online Information article about 1ST VISCOUNT SIMON HAR...
Harcourt was not a great lawyer, but he enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator; See also:
Simon Harcourt predeceased his father, the lord chancellor, in 1720, leaving a son SIMON HARCOURT (1714-1777), 1st Earl Harcourt, who succeeded his grandfather in the See also:
Northamptonshire, by whom he had two daughters and two sons, George Simon and William, who succeeded him as 2nd and 3rd earl respectively.
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 Lord Chancellor Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Among the most famous Lord Chancellors were Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and Sir Thomas More, Martyr, under King Henry VIII, and Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon under King Charles II.
Simon Harcourt, 1st Lord Harcourt (Lord Keeper to 1713) 1710-1714
Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington (Lord Keeper to 1761) 1757-1766
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 History of Nuneham House
The Harcourts were a conquest family whose original grant of land in Oxfordshire was Stanton Harcourt.
Simon Harcourt was born in 1714 and succeeded his grandfather, the Lord Chancellor, as the 2nd Viscount Harcourt in 1727.
The 1st Earl Harcourt inherited the ideal situation for a villa… "advantageous and delicious as can be desired, being seated on a hillock of most easy ascent, at the foot of which lies a navigable river and on the other side surrounded by several hills that seem to form an amphitheatre".
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 Lord Chancellor
In 2003 the governmental responsibilities of the Lord Chancellor will be transferred to a new Department of Constitutional Affairs[?], with an independent judicial appointments commission being set up to appoint new judges and and the Lords getting a new speaker, who will not be a minister.
Among the most famous Lord Chancellors were Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and Saint Sir Thomas More, under King Henry VIII, and Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon under King Charles II.
From June 12, 2003 until all the new institutions that replace it are in place the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs[?], Lord Falconer of Thoroton will serve as Lord Chancellor.
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 HARCOURT, SIMON HARCOURT, 1ST VISCOUNT (c. 1661-1727) - Encyclopedia Britannica - HARCOURT, SIMON HARCOURT, 1ST ...
In 1710 he had purchased the Nuneham-Courtney estate in Oxford-shire, but his usual place of residence continued to be at Cokethorpe near Stanton Harcourt, where he received a visit in state from Queen Anne.
Harcourt married, first, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Clark, his father's chaplain, by whom he had five children; secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
His son, Simon (1684-1720), married Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Evelyn of Wotton, by whom he had one son and four daughters, one of whom married George Venables Vernon, afterwards Lord Vernon (see HARCOURT, SIR WILLIAMfootnote).
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 Wikinfo | Lord Chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton of Mounslow 1641-1642
Simon Harcourt, 1st Baron Harcourt (Lord Keeper to 1713) 1710-1714
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol 1733-1737
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 Parishes of Donnybrook,
Besides the Castle of Merrion he had a house in Dublin, but he died in the former place, and desired to be buried in the parish church of Donnybrook, directing that in the Chapel there belonging to his family a tomb or monument should be erected to their memory.
Viscount Fitzwilliam complained on more than one occasion of wastage of his lands by the commander of the ordnance, and in June 1642, 260 horses belonging to the transport were stationed there.
He was a most popular judge, esteemed for his profound legal knowledge as well as for his urbanity, and was a man of literary tastes and culture, his library being one of the best in the kingdom of his day, and his collection of paintings and antiquities of rare excellence.
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 thePeerage.com - George Anson and others
Isabella Elizabeth Annabella Forester was the daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester of Willey Park and Lady Katherine Mary Manners.
George Anson, son of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson and Anne Margaret Coke, on 30 November 1830.
Frances Elizabeth Anson was the daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson and Anne Margaret Coke.
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Stanton Harcourt was the principal home of the Harcourts until it fell into disrepair in the mid-17th century.
A second property, Nuneham Courtenay, was built by order of Simon Harcourt, the 2nd Viscount and 1st Earl Harcourt (1714-1777) in 1710, using materials from the original house.
The 1st Earl Harcourt was a close confidante of George II (1727-1760) and Governor to his grandson, the Prince of Wales, later George III (1760-1820).
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 harcourt03
Families covered: Harcourt of Ankerwycke, Harcourt of Penley, Harcourt of Raunton, Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Harcourt of Wigsell, Harcourt of Wytham (Witham)
Sir Simon Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Governor of Dublin Castle (a 1643)
Elizabeth Harcourt (dau of Sir Philip Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt)
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Viscount Harcourt of Nuneham-Courtney and Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt.
The next large group of letters are from Lee's relatives, the Harcourts including Simon Harcourt, father of Lee's mother and the first Earl Harcourt.
Simon's letters are all addressed to his son-in-law, William Lee, third Baronet.
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 Harcourt Hotel Dublin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A fabulous mix of pathos harcourt hotel dublin and high humor, this is a sardonic tour of the gamut of human experience told by Ireland's finest modern storytellers.
The school was founded in 1870 in Harcourt Street before moving to its current location in Rathgar in 1971 and amalgamated with The Diocesan School for Girls in 1974, thereby becoming co-educational.
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (c.
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Harcourt, Lady: Probably the wife of Sir Simon Harcourt (1603-1642) or Sir Walter (1550-?).
Hereford, Lord: The title was created in 1550 and died with the second Viscount in 1576.
He was knighted in 1586, and created Viscount Lisle in 1605.
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ThePeerage.com - Murray Edward Gordon Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of He was the son of Edward William Harcourt and Lady Susan Harriet Holroyd.
ThePeerage.com - Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt and others George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt b.
HARCOURT pedigree HARC394 1 DE HARCOURT, Anchetil, of Normandy (M) [~1070 — ] HARC395 +DE BRAIOSE (F) [~1077 — ] HARC392 2 DE HARCOURT, William, of Shenton (M) [~1100 — 1142] Print preview print
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The title Viscount Harcourt was a British title of Peerage which has been extinct since 1979.
This artikel Viscount_Harcourt is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
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 British ministries, political parties, etc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
1927) 1905 - 1916 Sir Edward Grey (from 27 Jul 1916, Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon) (b.
1969) Masters-General of the Ordnance 1693 - 1702 Henry Sydney, Viscount Sydney (from 1694, Henry Sydney, Earl of Romney) (b.
(commissioners) 19 Oct 1710 - 21 Sep 1714 Simon Harcourt, (from 1711) Baron Harcourt (Lord Keeper to 1713) (b.
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 Dublin under the Tudors and the Stuarts
In the summer of 1632 Thomas, Viscount Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford, landed as Lord Deputy.
But on the last day of the year 1642 the hopes of the King's adherents were raised by the arrival from England of 1,100 men under Sir Simon Harcourt, the first instalment of that reinforcement promised by the English Parliament.
After dark on the night of 1st August., Major-General Purcell, with a force of 1,500 men, was despatched to occupy and repair the castle; but owing, it is said, to treachery on the part of a guide, who led them through Dundrum, they did not reach the castle till day was breaking.
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 Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1661?-1727), Lord Chancellor
by John Simon, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt mezzotint, 1713 or after
The online database contains information on 92,385 works, 51,004 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
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1952) 1 Oct 1943 - 21 Feb 1947 Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell (b.
1807) 30 Nov 1772 - 25 Jan 1777 Simon Harcourt, Earl Harcourt (b.
Prime ministers (presidents of the Council of Ministers) 17 Mar 1861 - 6 Jun 1861 Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour (b.
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 Benedict: Making the Modern Reader - Chapter Three: DISCRIMINATING READERS IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Congreve's Epistle to the Lord Viscount Cobham, (On a Subject not much different) whereby the World will easily perceive that this Work falls as far short of Mr.
Manley, Pope provides short epigrams and verses that jostle love lyrics by Sewell, Moore, Suckling, Shirley, and Charles Hopkins, among others, along with "familiar" letters by Rochester, character sketches, and parliamentary debates in prose.
Williams points out that two epigrams attributed to Prior are here printed as by Simon Harcourt (88).
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 Ireland
Dec 1349 - 8 Jul 1355 Thomas de Rokeby (1st time) (d.
8 Sep 1622 - 26 Oct 1629 Henry Cary, Viscount of Falkland (b.
30 Nov 1772 - 25 Jan 1777 Simon Harcourt, Earl Harcourt (b.
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