Men-at-the-Bar/Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon
Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon, Q.C., M.P., M.A. (scholar), Trin. Coll., Camb., 1869, secretary of state for home department since April, 1880, M.P. Derby since May, 1880, Oxford 1868-80, solicitor-general 1873-4, knighted 12 Dec., 1873, professor of international law Camb. Univ. since 1869, member of royal commissions for amendment of neutrality law 1867, naturalization law 1868, and extradition law 1877, author of Letters of "Historicus" on International Law, a student of the Inner Temple 2 May, 1851 (then aged 23), called to the bar 1 May, 1854, Q.C. 10 Jan., 1866 (eldest son of Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, of Bolton Percy, Yorks); born 14 Oct., 1827; married 1st, 5 Nov., 1859, Thérèse, dau. of Thomas Henry Lister, Esq., of Armitage Park, co. Stafford; she died 31 Jan., 1863; he married 2ndly, 2 Dec., 1876, Elizabeth, widow of T P Ives, Esq., dau. of late (Hon.) J Lothrop Motley, American Minister at St. James', and has issue (see Foster's Peerage).
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