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Harcourt, Sir William Vernon
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Statesman, born, a clergyman's son, at Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire; was highly distinguished at Cambridge, and in 1854 was called to the bar; was a Q.C. in 1866, and professor of International Law at Cambridge (1869-87); he won considerable repute by his articles in the Saturday Review and his "Historicus" letters to the Times , and in 1868 entered Parliament, representing Oxford in the Liberal interest; in 1873 he became Solicitor-General, and received a knighthood; he was a vigorous opponent of the Disraeli Government, and on the return of the Liberals to power in 1880 became Home Secretary; under Mr. Gladstone in 1886, and again in 1892, he held the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer; he staunchly supported Mr. Gladstone in his Home Rule policy; became leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons on Mr. Gladstone's retirement, a post which for party reasons he resigned in 1899; b . 1827.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Harcourt, Sir William Vernon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/harcourt-sir-william-vernon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
