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
Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt College London. Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) was a British civil engineer, author of several treatises on river and harbour engineering. Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt was the son of Admiral Frederick Edward Vernon-Harcourt (1790–1883), a descendant of the Barons Vernon, and his wife, née Marcia Tollemache (?-1868). His elder brother was the chemist Augustus George Vernon Harcourt. In 1870 he married Alice Brandreth, daughter of Lt. Col. Henry Rowland Brandreth FRS, by whom he had four children of which three succeeded him. His daughter, Evelyn Alice, married the writer Arthur Clutton-Brock in 1903. He died in 1907, at Swanage.