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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.
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.
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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Rev. William Venables-Vernon Harcourt (1789 – April 1871) was an English cleric, founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, canon residentiary of the York Cathedral, and later rector of Bolton Percy.
I suoi studî sulle proprietà dei vetri d'ottica furono di fondamentale importanza per lo sviluppo della costruzione di apparecchi e strumenti ottici; pur non disponendo di grandi attrezzature e di adeguati finanziamenti, riuscì, nel corso dei suoi ventennali esperimenti, a ottenere vetri al titanio e al boro quasi esenti da difetti.
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 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.
