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Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt PC (born Reginald Vernon Harcourt; 31 January 1863 – 24 February 1922), was a British Liberal Party politician who held the Cabinet post of Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1910 to 1915.
Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt. (1863-1922), Liberal politician; MP for Rossendale and Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sitter in 15 portraits. After leaving school in 1881, Lewis Vernon Harcourt began working as private secretary to his father, Liberal MP William Vernon Harcourt, who at the time was Home Secretary.
1st Viscount Harcourt, of the second creation. The viscountcy was revived in 1917 in favour of Lewis Vernon Harcourt , [5] also created Baron Nuneham, of Nuneham Courtenay in the County of Oxford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922), Liberal politician; MP for Rossendale and Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sitter in 15 portraits.
10 dic 2014 · The catalogue of the further papers of the Liberal politician Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, is now available online. The newly available material complements two other tranches of Lewis Harcourt papers catalogues in the Harcourt Papers and the Additional Harcourt Papers.
The archive comprises: Papers of Sir William Harcourt, 1833-1921. Papers of Lewis, 1st Viscount Harcourt, 1870-1922, n.d. Harcourt family correspondence, 1830-1928, n.d. Papers relating to the biography of Sir William Harcourt, c.1848-1926, n.d.
Lewis Harcourt was first elected to the House of Commons in March 1904 as the Liberal MP for Rossendale. He twice served as Commissioner of Works, 1905-1910 and 1915-1916, and served as Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1910-1915. He was created Viscount Harcourt in 1917. He married Mary Ethel, daugther of Walter Hayes Burns in July 1899.
