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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 Oxford, Derby then West Monmouthshire and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before ...
By Professor Ian Machin. Type: Biography. William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt was born at York on 14 October 1827, of a land-owning and clerical family which traced its ancestry to the Plantagenet kings. His elder brother, Edward Harcourt, was a staunch Conservative and for eight years an MP. William Harcourt’s views, however ...
Sir William Harcourt (born Oct. 14, 1827, York, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Oct. 1, 1904, Nuneham Courtnay, Oxfordshire) was a British lawyer, journalist, politician, and cabinet member in five British Liberal governments, who in 1894 achieved a major reform in death duties, or estate taxation.
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HARCOURT, Sir William Vernon. Luigi Villari. Uomo politico britannico, nato a York il 14 ottobre 1827, morto a Nuneham (Oxford) il 30 settembre 1904. Si laureò a Cambridge nel 1851, e divenne avvocato a Londra nel 1854. Esercitò la professione, collaborò a varî giornali e partecipò alla lotta politica come liberale.
Harcourt, William Vernon nell'Enciclopedia Treccani - Treccani - Treccani. Linea Definizione. Arte. Cataloghi. Lavora con noi. DAL VOCABOLARIO. LEMMI CORRELATI. Scienziato (Sudbury 1789 - Nuneham 1871). I suoi studî sulle proprietà dei vetri d'ottica furono di fondamentale importanza per lo sviluppo della costruzione di apparecchi e strumenti ...
William Vernon Harcourt. William Vernon Harcourt FRS (1789-1871) By David Rowe. I first came across the name Vernon Harcourt in physics at school in the 1930s in connection with the Vernon Harcourt pentane lamp, a standard of optical luminosity. But the lamp was developed by the distinguished physical chemist Augustus George Vernon Harcourt FRS ...
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He served as Member of Parliament for Oxford, Derby then West Monmouthshire and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition.
