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HARCLA— HARCOURT. 1G1 HARCLA or HARTCLA. Barony by Sir Andrew dis Harcla, or de Hartcla, was sum. to "Writ. Parl - as 8 Iiarml [LORD DE HARTCLA] by writ ID May (1321), 14 Ed. II., directed Amtrte de ttartcla " and again 14 March (1321/2), I. 1321, 15 Ed. II He was it. EARL OF CARLISLE 25 March 1322. See to that Earldom. All hi* honours were forfeited 1823. 13:13. HARCOURT. Thomas (Beaufort), Duke of Exeter, was cr., 1 July 1418, COUNT OF HARCOUKT in Normandy. (») See " Exeter" Dukedom cr. 1416, ex. (with this dignity) 1426. HARCOURT OF STANTON HARCOURT. Barony. 1. Simon ILarcourt only s. and h. of Sir Philip H., of j 1711 Stanton Harcoort, Oxon, by his first wife, Anne, da. of Sir William WALLER, of Ostciley Park. Midx., was b. 1661 at Stanton Harcourt ; Vis;ountoy. ed. at Pembroke Cull., Oxford ; mat., 30 March 1667, then aged 15 ; j 1!. A. , 1679; Barrister (Inner Temple). 1683 ; Recorder of Abingdon, L U3S1, 1686 ; sue. his father April 16SS ; M.P. for Abingdon, 1690—1705 ; for Bossiney, 1705— OS ; for Cardigan, 1708—10, and for Abingdon (again) 1710 — 11 ; Solicitor Gen., 1702—07, being knighted, 1 June 1702 ; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford, 27 Aug. 1702; a Commissioner for the Union [S.], 8 April 1706, having a great share in drafting the Ratification Bill ; Attorney Geu., 1707-08 (resigning office on the dismissal of Barley) and again Sep. to Oct. 1710 ; P.C. and Loud Keeper, Oct. 1710, not however being raised to the peerage till a year later when he was, 3 Sep. 1711, cr. BARON HARCOUKT OF STANTON HARCOURT, co. Oxford.( b ) His office was changed, 7 April 1713, to that of Lord Chancellor in which post he was retained some six weeks after the death of Queen Anne by the Lords Justices( c ) (Regents) of the Realm (of which he himself was one) but was dismissed 21 Sep. 1714, the day after the arrival of King George I. in London- Ho behaved honourably to his old allies, managing to defeat the impeachment of Barley (Earl of Oxford) and to procure a qualified pardon for Lord Bolingbroke. After some years, however, he joined the Whig partyf") under Walpole, receiving in reward an increase of pension 'from £2,000 to £4,0011 a year, ami being cr., 11 Sep. 1721, VISCOUNT HARCOURT OF STANTON HAKCOURT, co. Oxford ; P.C, 1722; one of the Lords Justices (Uegents) during the King's absence from the Realm in 1723, 1725, and 1727. He IB. firstly (when under age) 18 Oct. 1680, at St. Marylebone, Midi., Rebecca, da. of the Rev. Thomas Ci.ark, said to have been Chaplain to his father. She was bur. 16 May 16S7, at Chipping Ncrton, Oxon. He m. secondly Elizabeth, widow of Richard Andekson, of Penley, Herts, da. of Richard Spencer, of London and Derbyshire. She d. s.p., 16 June 1724, in her 67th year, at his house in Downing street, Midx., and was Our. 23d at Stanton Harcourt. He lit. thirdly 30 Sep. 1724, Elizabeth, widow of Sir John Walter, Bart., da. of Sir Thomas Vernon, of Twickenham Park, Midx. He d. 28 July 1727, aged 66, at Harcourt House, Cavendish square, and was bur. i Aug. at Stanton Harcourt. Will dat. 30 May and pr. 14 Nov. 1727, and 19 March 1745. His widow d. July 17 IS and was btir. at Sarsdeu, Oxon. Will dat. 13 Feb. 1747, pr. 22 July 1748. ( a ) This was one of the Norman Earldoms conferred by Henry V. of these vol. Hi, p. 292, note "a," sub "Eu." ( b ) The preamble to the pateut, in the slilted form of eulogy usual at that period, is in " Collins," vol. iv, pp. 444 — 146. ( c ) See vol. iii, p. 116, note " b," sub " Devonshire," for a list of these officers. (d) Hence he is called by Swift " Trimming Harcourt." He appears to have excelled rather as a speaker than as a lawyer and is said by Speaker Onslow to have had " the greatest skill and power of speech " of any that he knew. M