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See also:HARCOURT, See also: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:GEORGE See also:GRANVILLE VENABLES See also:VERNON (1827-1904) , See also:English statesman, second son of the Rev. See also:Canon William Vernon Harcourt (q.v.), of Nuneham See also:Park, 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, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:October 1827. Canon Harcourt was the See also:fourth son and eventually See also:heir of See also:Edward Harcourt (1757-1847), See also:archbishop of See also:York, who was the son of the 1st See also:Lord Vernon (d. 178o), and who took the name of Harcourt alone instead of Vernon on succeeding to the See also:property of his See also:cousin, the last See also:Earl Harcourt, in 1831.1 The subject
1 William, 3rd and last Earl Harcourt (1743–1830), who succeeded his See also:brother in the See also:title, was a soldier who distinguished him-self in the See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence by capturing See also:General See also:Charles See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee, and commanded the See also:British forces in See also:Flanders in 1794, eventually becoming a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:marshal. He was a son of See also:Simon, 1st earl (1714–1777), created See also:viscount and earl in 1749, a soldier, and from 1772 to 1777 See also:viceroy of See also:Ireland, who was See also:grandson and heir of Simon, Viscount Harcourt (1661–1727), lord See also:chancellor—the " trimming Harcourt " of See also:Swift—the purchaser of the Nuneham-See also:Courtney estates in See also:Oxfordshire, and son of 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. The knights of Stanton Harcourt, from the 13th See also:century onwards, traced their descent to the See also:Norman de Harcourts, a See also:branch of that See also:family having come over with the Conqueror; and the See also:pedigree claims to go back to See also:Bernard of See also:Saxony, who in 876 acquired the lordships of Harcourt, Castleville and Beauficel in See also:Normandy. Viscount Harcourt's second son Simon, who was See also:father of the 1st earl, was also father of Martha, who married George
of this See also:biography was therefore born a Vernon, and by his connexion with the old families of Vernon and Harcourt was related to many of the See also:great English houses, a fact which gave him no little See also:pride. Indeed, in later See also:life his descent from the Plantagenets' was a subject of some banter on the See also:part of his See also:political opponents. He was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in the classical tripos in 1851. He was called to the See also:bar in 1854, became a Q.C. in 1866, and was appointed See also:Whewell See also:professor of inter-See also:national See also:law, Cambridge, 1869. He quickly made his See also:mark in See also:London society as a brilliant talker; he contributed largely to the Saturday See also:Review, and wrote some famous letters (1862) to The Times over the See also:signature of " Historicus," in opposition to the recognition of the See also:Southern States as belligerents in the American See also:Civil War. He entered See also:parliament as Liberal member for Oxford, and sat from 1868 to 188o, when, upon seeking re-See also:election after See also:acceptance of 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, he was defeated by Mr See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall. A seat was, however, found for him at See also:Derby, by the voluntary retirement of Mr See also:Plimsoll, and he continued to represent that See also:constituency until 1895, when, having been defeated at the general election, he found a seat in See also:West See also:Monmouthshire. He was appointed See also:solicitor-general and knighted in 1873; and, although he had not shown himself a very strenuous supporter of Mr See also:Gladstone during that statesman's exclusion from See also:power, he became secretary of See also:state for the See also:home See also:department on the return of the Liberals to office in 1880. His name was connected at that 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 the passing of the Ground See also:Game See also:Act (188o), the Arms (Ireland) Act (1881), and the See also:Explosives Act (1883). As home secretary at the time of the See also:dynamite outrages he had to take up a See also:firm attitude, and the Explosives Act was passed through all its stages in the shortest time on See also:record. Moreover, as See also:champion of law and See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order against the attacks of the Parnellites, his vigorous speeches brought him constantly into conflict with the Irish members. In 1884 he introduced an abortive See also:bill for unifying the municipal See also:administration of London. He was indeed at that time recognized as one of the ablest and most effective leaders of the Liberal party; and when, after a brief See also:interval in 1885, Mr Gladstone returned to office in 1886, he was made chancellor of the See also:exchequer, an office which he again filled from 1892 to 1895.
Between i88o and 1892 Sir William Harcourt acted as Mr Gladstone's loyal and indefatigable See also:lieutenant in political life. A first-See also:rate party fighter, his services were of inestimable value; but in spite of his great success as a See also:platform See also:speaker, he was generally See also:felt to be speaking from an See also:advocate's brief, and did not impress the See also:country as possessing much See also:depth of conviction. It was he who coined the phrase about " stewing in Parnellite juice," and, when the split came in the Liberal party on the Irish question, even those who gave Mr Gladstone and Mr See also:Morley the See also:credit of. being convinced Home Rulers could not be persuaded that Sir William had followed anything but the See also:line of party expediency. In 1894 he introduced and carried a memorable See also:budget, which equalized the See also:death duties on real and See also:personal property. After Mr Gladstone's retirement in 1894 and Lord See also:Rosebery's selection as See also:prime See also:minister Sir William became the See also:leader of the Liberal party in the See also:House of See also:Commons, but it was never probable that he would See also:work comfortably in the new conditions. His title to be regarded as Mr Gladstone's successor had been too lightly ignored, and from the first it was evident that Lord Rosebery's ideas of Liberalism and of the policy of the Liberal party were not those of Sir William Harcourt. Their See also:differences were patched up from time to time, but the
Venables Vernon, of See also:Sudbury, created 1st See also:Baron Vernon in 1762. The latter was a descendant of Sir See also:Richard Vernon (d. 1451), speaker of the See also:Leicester parliament (1425) and treasurer of See also:Calais, a member of a Norman family which came over with the Conqueror.
' The See also:Plantagenet descent (see The See also:Blood Royal of See also:Britain, by the See also:marquis of See also:Ruvigny, 1903, for tables) could be traced through See also:Lady See also:Anna Leveson See also:Gower (wife of Archbishop Harcourt) to Lady Frances See also:Stanley, the wife of the 1st earl of See also:Bridgewater (1579-1649), and so to Lady Eleanor See also:Brandon, wife of the earl of See also:Cumberland (1517-1570), and daughter of See also:Mary Tudor (wife of Charles Brandon, See also:duke of See also:Suffolk, 1484-1545), the daughter of 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 VII. and See also:grand-daughter of Edward IV.See also:combination could not last. At the general election of 1895 it was clear that there were divisions as to what issue the Liberals were fighting for, and the effect of Sir William Harcourt's abortive See also:Local See also:Veto Bill on the election was seen not only in his defeat at Derby, which gave the See also:signal for the Liberal rout, but in the set-back it gave to See also:temperance legislation. Though returned for West Monmouthshire (1895, 1900), his speeches in debate only occasionally showed his characteristic spirit, and it was evident that for the hard work of Opposition he no longer had the same See also:motive as of old. In See also:December 1898 the crisis arrived, and with Mr See also:John Morley he definitely retired from the counsels of the party and resigned his leadership of the Opposition, alleging as his See also:reason, in letters exchanged between Mr Morley and himself, the See also:cross-currents of See also:opinion among his old supporters and former colleagues. The split excited considerable comment, and resulted in much See also:heart-burning and a more or less open See also:division between the See also:section of the Liberal party following Lord Rosebery (q.v.) and those who disliked that statesman's Imperialistic views.
Though now a private member, Sir William Harcourt still continued to vindicate his opinions in his See also:independent position, and his attacks on the See also:government were no longer restrained by even the semblance of deference to Liberal Imperialism. He actively intervened in 1899 and 'goo, strongly condemning the government's See also:financial policy and their attitude towards the See also:Transvaal; and throughout the See also:Boer War he lost no opportunity of criticizing the See also:South See also:African developments in a pessimistic vein. One of the readiest See also:parliamentary debaters, he savoured his speeches with See also:humour of that broad and See also:familiar order which appeals particularly to political audiences. In 1898–1900 he was conspicuous, both on the platform and in letters written to The Times, in demanding active See also:measures against the Ritualistic party in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England; but his attitude on that subject could not be dissociated from his political advocacy of Disestablishment. In See also:March 1904, just after he had announced his intention not to seek election again to parliament, he succeeded, by the death of his See also:nephew, to the family estates at Nuneham. But he died suddenly there on the 1st of October in the same See also:year. He married, first, in 1859, Therese (d. 1863), daughter of Mr T. H. See also:Lister, by whom he had one son, See also:Lewis Vernon Harcourt (b. 1863), afterwards first See also:commissioner of See also:works both in Sir Henry 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-Bannerman's 1905 See also:ministry (included in the See also:cabinet in 1907) and in Mr See also:Asquith's cabinet (1908); and secondly, in 1876, See also:Elizabeth, widow of Mr T. Ives and daughter of Mr. J. L. See also:Motley, the historian, by whom he had another son, See also:Robert (b. 1878).
Sir William Harcourt was one of the great parliamentary figures of the Gladstonian Liberal See also:period. He was essentially an aristocratic type of See also:late 19th century Whig, with a remarkable capacity for popular See also:campaign fighting. He had been, and remained, a brilliant journalist in the non-professional sense. He was one of those who really made the Saturday Review in its palmy days, and in the period of his own most ebullient vigour, while Mr Gladstone was alive, his sense of political expediency and platform effectiveness in controversy was very acute. But though he played the game of public life with keen zest, he never really touched either the country or his own party with the faith which creates a personal following, and in later years he found himself somewhat isolated and disappointed, though he was See also:free to See also:express his deeper objections to the new developments in church and state. A tall, See also:fine See also:man, with the grand manner, he was, throughout a See also:long career, a great See also:personality in the life of his time. (H.
End of Article: HARCOURT, SIR WILLIAM GEORGE GRANVILLE VENABLES VERNON (1827-1904)
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