1ST See also:VISCOUNT See also:SIMON See also:HARCOURT HARCOURT (c. 1661-1727)
, See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, only son of See also:Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Harcourt of See also:Stanton Harcourt, See also:Oxfordshire, by his first wife, See also:Anne, daughter of Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Waller, was See also:born about 1661 at Stanton Harcourt, and was educated at a school at Shilton, Oxfordshire, and at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
He was called to the See also:bar in 1683, and soon afterwards was appointed See also:recorder of See also:Abingdon, which See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough he represented as a Tory in See also:parliament from 1690 to 1705
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In 1701 he was nominated by the See also:Commons to conduct the See also:impeachment of Lord See also:Somers; and in 1702 he became See also:solicitor-See also:general and was knighted by See also:Queen Anne
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He was elected member for Bossiney in 1705, and as See also:commissioner for arranging the See also:union with See also:Scotland was largely instrumental in promoting that measure
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Harcourt was appointed See also:attorney-general in 1707, but resigned See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in the following See also:year when his friend See also:Robert Harley, afterwards See also:earl of Oxford, was dismissed
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He defended See also:Sacheverell at the bar of the See also:House of Lords in 1710, being then without a seat in parliament; but in the same year was returned for See also:Cardigan, and in See also:September again became attorney-general
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In See also:October he was appointed lord keeper of the See also:great See also:seal, and in virtue of this office he presided in the House of Lords for some months without a See also:peerage, until, on the 3rd of September 1711, he was created See also:Baron Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt; but it was not till See also:April 1713 that he received the See also:appointment of lord chancellor
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In 1710 he had See also:purchased the Nuneham-See also:Courtney See also:estate in Oxford-See also:shire, but his usual See also:place of See also:residence continued to be at Cokethorpe near Stanton Harcourt, where he received a visit in See also:state from Queen Anne
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In the negotiations preceding the See also:peace of See also:Utrecht, Harcourt took an important See also:part
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There is no sufficient See also:evidence for the allegations of the Whigs that Harcourt entered into treasonable relations with the Pretender
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On the See also:accession of See also:George I. he was deprived of office and retired to Cokethorpe, where he enjoyed the society of men of letters, See also:Swift, See also:Pope, See also:Prior and other famous writers being among his frequent guests
.
With Swift, however, he had occasional quarrels, during one of which the great satirist bestowed on him the See also:sobriquet of " Trimming Harcourt." He exerted himself to defeat the impeachment of Lord Oxford in 1717, and in 1723 he was active in obtaining a See also:pardon for another old See also:political friend, Lord Boling-See also:broke
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In 1721 Harcourt was created a See also:viscount and returned to the privy See also:councils; and on several occasions during the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's absences from England he was on the See also:council of regency
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He died in See also:London on the 23rd of See also:July 1727
.
Harcourt was not a great lawyer, but he enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator; See also:Speaker See also:Onslow going so far as to say that Harcourt " had the greatest skill and See also:power of speech of any See also:man I ever knew in a public See also:assembly." He was a member of the famous Saturday See also:Club, frequented by the See also:chief literati and wits of the See also:period, with several of.whom he corresponded
.
Some letters tohim from Pope are preserved in the Harcourt Papers
.
His portrait by See also:Kneller is at Nuneham
.
Harcourt married, first, Rebecca, daughter of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Clark, his See also:father's See also:chaplain, by whom he had five See also:children; secondly, See also:Elizabeth, daughter of See also:Richard See also:Spencer; and thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas See also:Vernon
.
He See also:left issue by his first wife only
.
His son, See also:Simon (1684-1720), married Elizabeth, See also:sister of Sir See also:John See also:Evelyn of See also:Wotton, by whom he had one son and four daughters, one of whom married George Venables Vernon, afterwards Lord Vernon (see HARCOURT, SIR WILLIAM—footnote)
.
Simon Harcourt predeceased his father, the lord chancellor, in 1720, leaving a son SIMON HARCOURT (1714-1777), 1st Earl Harcourt, who succeeded his grandfather in the See also:title of viscount in 1727
.
He was educated at See also:Westminster school
.
In 1745, having raised a See also:regiment, he received a See also:commission as a See also:colonel in the See also:army; and in 1749 he was created Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt
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He was appointed See also:governor to the See also:prince of See also:Wales, afterwards George III., in 1751; and after the accession of the latter to the See also:throne he was appointed, in 1761, See also:special See also:ambassador to See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Strelitz to negotiate a See also:marriage between King George and the princess See also:Charlotte, whom he conducted to England
.
After holding a number of appointments at See also:court and in the See also:diplomatic service, he was promoted to the See also:rank of general-in 1772; and in October of the same year he succeeded Lord Townsend as lord See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland, an office which he held till 1777
.
His proposal to impose a tax of 1o% on the rents of absentee landlords had to be abandoned owing to opposition in England; but he succeeded in conciliating the leaders of Opposition in Ireland, and he persuaded See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Flood to accept office in the See also:government
.
Resigning in See also:January 1777, he retired to Nuneham, where he died in the following September
.
He married, in 1735, Rebecca, daughter and heiress of See also:Charles Samborne Le Bas, of Pipewell See also:Abbey, See also:Northamptonshire, by whom he had two daughters and two sons, George Simon and William, who succeeded him as 2nd and 3rd earl respectively
.
See Lord See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors, vol. v
.
(London, 1846) ; See also:Edward See also:Foss, The See also:Judges of England, vol. viii
.
(London, 1848); See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert See also:Burnet, Hist. of his own See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time (with notes by earls of See also:Dartmouth and See also:Hardwicke, &c., Oxford, 1833) ; Earl See also:Stanhope, Hist. of England, comprising the reign of Queen Anne until the Peace of Utrecht (London, 187o)
.
In addition to the above-mentioned authorities many particulars concerning the 1st Viscount Harcourt, and also of his See also:grandson, the 1st earl, will be found in the Harcourt Papers
.
For the earl, see also See also:Horace See also:Walpole, See also:Memoirs of the Reign of George H
.
(3 vols., 2nd ed., London, 1847), Memoirs of the Reign of George III
.
(4 vols., London, 1845, 1894) ; also, for his See also:vice-See also:royalty of Ireland, see Henry See also:Grattan, Memoirs of the See also:Life and Times of the Right Hon
.
H
.
Grattan (5 vols., London, 1839–1846): See also:Francis See also:Hardy, Memoirs of J
.
Caulfield, Earl of See also:Charlemont (2 vols., London, 1812); and for his See also:genealogy, see Sir John See also:Bernard See also:Burke, Genealogical See also:History of Dormant and See also:Extinct Peerages (London, 1883)
.
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.
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