Harcourt Johnstone Harcourt Johnstone Harcourt Johnstone (19 May 1895 – 1 March 1945), nicknamed Crinks, was a British Liberal Party politician. Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American wife Antoinette Pinchot. His nickname 'Crinks' is alleged to have derived from the wrinkled face he had as a baby. One of his ancestors was Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904) who was Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone. His paternal grandfather was the first Baron Derwent. Harcourt Johnstone was educated at Eton College and at
Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt 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. He specialised