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
Edward Vernon Harcourt member of Royal Commission for organizing the Volunteer Force in 1862, and was 15 years President of National Artillery Association. He was the author of "Sketch of Madeira" (1851) and "Sporting in Algeria" (1859). He inherited Nuneham House and Park in 1871 and had a new Nuneham Courtenay parish church built in 1872-74. He served as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire from 1878 to 1885 and for Henley from 1885 to 1886. Harcourt was married to Lady Susan Harriet Holroyd, daughter of 2nd Earl of Sheffield in 1849. His brother was the politician William Vernon Harcourt. Edward Vernon Harcourt Edward