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See also:HARCOURT, See also:SIMON HARCOURT, 1ST See also:VISCOUNT (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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. In the negotiations preceding the See also:peace of See also:Utrecht, Harcourt took an important See also:part. There is no sufficient See also:evidence for the allegations of the Whigs that Harcourt entered into treasonable relations with the Pretender. 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. In 1721 Harcourt was created a 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. 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, 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. 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). (R. J.
End of Article: HARCOURT, SIMON HARCOURT, 1ST VISCOUNT (c. 1661-1727)
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