William Harcourt (politician) William Harcourt (politician) 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 various constituencies and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition. A talented speaker in parliament, he was sometimes regarded as aloof and possessing only an intellectual involvement in his causes. He failed to engender much emotional response in the public and became only a reluctant and disillusioned leader of his party. Harcourt was
William Douglas-Home William Douglas-Home The Hon. William Douglas-Home (3 June 1912 – 28 September 1992) was a British dramatist and politician. Douglas-Home was the third son of The 13th Earl of Home and Lady Lilian Lambton, daughter of The 4th Earl of Durham. His eldest brother was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister, 1963-64. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford where he read History. His first play, "Murder in Pupil Room", was performed by his classmates at Eton in 1926 when he was only fourteen. On 26 July 1951, he married the equally aristocratic the Hon. Rachel Brand (who