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Harcourt, Viscount (UK, 1917 - 1979)

Creation: let.pat. 3 Jan 1917

Extinct: 3 Jan 1979

Family name: Harcourt

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Arms:

See Earl Harcourt

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Lewis [Harcourt], 1st Viscount Harcourt, PC

1st son and heir of Rt Hon Sir William George Granville Vernon Harcourt MP, Home Secretary 1884-85 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1886 and 1892-95, of Nuneham Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford (by his first wife Maria Thérese Lister, 1st dau. of Thomas Henry Lister, of Armytage Park, co. Stafford, by his wife Lady Maria Theresa Villiers, sister of George William [Villiers], 4th Earl of Clarendon, and only dau. of Hon George Villiers (by his wife Hon Theresa Parker, sister of John [Parker], 1st Earl of Morley, and only dau. by his second wife of John [Parker], 1st Baron Boringdon), 3rd son of Thomas [Villiers], 1st Earl of Clarendon), 2nd son of Rev William Vernon-Harcourt later Harcourt, Canon of York Minster (by his wife Matilda Mary Gooch, 3rd dau. of Lt-Col William Gooch (by his wife Jane Wilkinson, dau. and cohrss. of James Wilkinson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Co. Durham), 2nd son of Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th Bt.), 4th son of Right Hon & Most Rev Edward Venables-Vernon later Vernon-Harcourt DD, of Nuneham Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford, Archbishop of York 1807-47, who succeeded to the Harcourt estates 17 Jun 1830 on the death of his first cousin William [Harcourt], 3rd Earl Harcourt (by his wife Lady Anne Leveson-Gower, 3rd dau. of Granville [Leveson-Gower], 1st Marquess of Stafford, by his second wife Lady Louisa Egerton, 1st dau. and cohrss. in her issue by his second wife of Scroop [Egerton], 1st Duke of Bridgewater), 3rd son of George [Vernon later Venables-Vernon], 1st Baron Vernon, by his third wife Hon Martha Harcourt, sister of Simon [Harcourt], 1st Earl Harcourt, and 1st dau. of Hon Simon Harcourt MP (by his wife Elizabeth Evelyn, sister of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bt., of Wotton, co. Surrey, and dau. of John Evelyn), 1st son and heir app. of Simon [Harcourt], 1st Viscount Harcourt, by his first wife Rebecca Clark, dau. of Rev Thomas Clark

born

31 Jan 1863

mar.

1 Jul 1899 Mary Ethel Burns GBE DGStJ (b. 1874; d. 1961), only dau. of Walter Hayes Burns, of New York and North Mimms Park, co. Hertford, Partner in J S Morgan & Co, London, by his wife Mary Lyman Morgan, dau. of Junius Spencer Morgan, of Hartford, Connecticutt, USA, Senior Partner in J S Morgan & Co

children

1. Hon William Edward Harcourt, later 2nd Viscount Harcourt

1. Hon Doris Mary Therese Harcourt (b. 30 Mar 1900; d. 1981), mar. 17 Nov 1924 Alexander Francis St Vincent [Baring], 6th Baron Ashburton, and had issue

2. Hon Olivia Vernon Harcourt DCVO, Woman of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Chairman Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital (b. 5 Apr 1902; d. 1984), mar. 29 Oct 1923 Hon (Godfrey) John Arthur Murrey Lyle Mulholland MC, Private Secretary to Governor of South Australia 1914-15 (b. 3 Oct 1892; d. 1 Mar 1948), 4th son of Henry Lyle [Mulholland], 2nd Baron Dunleath, by his wife Norah Louisa Fanny Ward OBE, only surv. dau. of Hon Somerset Richard Hamilton Augustus Ward (5th son of Edward Southwell [Ward], 3rd Viscount Bangor), by his wife Norah Mary Elizabeth Hill, only dau. of Lord George Augustus Hill (5th son of Arthur [Hill], 2nd Marquess of Downshire), by his first wife Cassandra Jane Knight, yst. dau. of Edward Knight, of Godmersham Park, co. Kent, and had issue

3. Hon Barbara Vernon Harcourt OBE (b. 28 Apr 1905; d. 19 May 1961), mar. (1) 25 Jul 1925 (div. 1936) Capt Robert Charles Horace Jenkinson (b. 2 Dec 1900; d. 22 Aug 1970), 1st son of Maj George Seymour Charles Jenkinson DSO (by his wife Ada Louisa Czarnikow, only dau. of Caesar Czarnikow, of Effingham Hill, co. Surrey), 2nd son of John Henry Jenkinson (by his wife Alice Henrietta Gordon Cumming, dau. of Sir William Gordon Cummng, 2nd Bt.), younger brother of Sir George Samuel Jenkinson, 11th Bt., and (2) 26 Jan 1937 as his second wife William James Baird, of Elie, co. Fife, Ranksborough Hall, Oakham, co. Rutland, and Langston House, Chadlington, co. Oxford, High Sheriff of Rutland 1925 (b. 8 Nov 1893; d. 19...), 1st son and heir of Lt-Col William Baird JP DL, of Elie, co. Fife, High Sheriff of Rutland 1894, by his wife Caroline Muriel Callander, only dau. of John Alexander Burn Callander, of Preston Hall, co. Midlothian, and had issue by her first husband

died

24 Feb 1922

created

3 Jan 1917 Baron Nuneham, of Nuneham-Courtenay in the County of Oxford, and Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in the said County of Oxford

suc. by

son

note

Private Secretary to his father when Home Secretary 1884-85 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1886 and 1892-95; Member of Parliament for Rossendale 1904-16; Privy Councillor 1905; First Commissioner of Works 1905-10 and 1915-16; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1910-15

William Edward [Harcourt], 2nd Viscount Harcourt KCMG OBE DL

born

5 Oct 1948

mar. (1)

1 Jun 1931 (div. 1942) Hon Maud Elizabeth Grosvenor (b. 8 Apr 1909; mar. (2) 8 Sep 1942 Lt-Col Edward O'Shaughnessy, of Duke Street, Northam, Western Australia, Australia, son of E O'Shaughnessy, of Cahircaveen, Co Kerry), only dau. of Francis Egerton [Grosvenor], 4th Baron Ebury, by his wife Mary Adela Glasson, dau. of John Glasson

children by first wife

1. Hon (Elizabeth) Ann Harcourt, heiress of Nuneham-Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford (b. 17 Feb 1932; d. 26 Jan 2020), mar. 19 Jan 1954 Crispin Gascoigne (b. 10 Oct 1929; d. 2 Dec 2001), only son of Major-Gen Sir Julian Alvary Gascoigne KCMG KCVO CB DSO DL, of Ronans, Bracknell, co. Berkshire (by his wife Joyce Alfreda Newman, dau. of Robert Lydston Newmn JP), son of Brig-Gen Sir Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne, by his wife Laura Cicely Clive, dau. of General Edward Henry Clive (by his wife Isabel Webb, dau. of Daniel Hale Webb, of Wykeham Park, co. Oxford), son of George Clive (by his wife Ann Sybella Martha Farquhar, dau. of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar, 2nd Bt.), son of Edward Bolton Clive MP, by his wife Hon Harriet Archer, dau. of Andrew [Archer], 2nd Baron Archer, and had issue

2. Hon Penelope Mary Harcourt (b. 17 May 1933), mar. 14 Aug 1954 Major Anthony David Motion, son of Major Malcolm David Motion

3. Hon Virginia Vernon Harcourt (b. 16 Jan 1937)

mar. (2)

23 Jan 1946 Elizabeth Sonia Gibbs (d. 1959), widow of Lionel Cyril Gibbs, and 2nd dau. of Sir Harold Snagge KBE, of 13 St Leonard's Terrace, London SW3

died

3 Jan 1979

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served in World War II 939-45 with 63rd (Oxfordshire Yeomanry), Anti-Tank Regiment; MBE 1943; OBE 1945; UK Financial Adviser with rank of Economic Minister, British Embassy, Washington; UK Executive Director of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and International Monetary Fund; KCMG 1957; Vice-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire 1963-79 

The Viscountcy of Harcourt and the Barony of Nuneham became extinct in 1939 on the death of the 2nd Viscount Harcourt.

First written 6 Mar 2012

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