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WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT (1789-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 941 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:VERNON See also:HARCOURT (1789-1871)  , founder of the See also:British Association, was See also:born at See also:Sudbury, See also:Derbyshire, in 1789, a younger son of See also:Edward See also:Vernon [See also:Harcourt], See also:archbishop of See also:York (see above) . Having served for five years in the See also:navy he went up to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, with a view to taking See also:holy orders . He began his clerical duties at Bishopthorpe, See also:Yorkshire, in 1811, and having See also:developed a See also:great See also:interest in See also:science while at the university, he took an active See also:part in the See also:foundation of the Yorkshire Philosonhical Society, of which hp was the first See also:president . The See also:laws and the See also:plan of proceedings for the British Association for the See also:Advancement of Science were See also:drawn up by him; and Harcourt was elected president in 1839 . In 1824 he became See also:canon of York and See also:rector of Wheldrake in Yorkshire, and in 1837 rector of See also:Bolton See also:Percy . The Yorkshire school for the See also:blind and the See also:Castle See also:Howard reformatory both owe their existence to his energies . His spare See also:time until quite See also:late in See also:life was occupied with scientific experiments . Inheriting the Harcourt estates in See also:Oxfordshire from his See also:brother in 1861, he removed to Nuneham, where he died in See also:April 1871 .

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