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Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon (1827-1904), politician

Peter Stansky

in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Published in print September 2004 | ISBN: 9780198614111
Published online September 2004 | e-ISBN: 9780198614128 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33693
Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon (1827-1904), politician

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Family, education, and early career | Marriage, the law, and early political career | Home secretary | Chancellor of the exchequer and the Liberal split | Chancellor of the exchequer again | The struggle for the Liberal leadership | Harcourt and the death duties | In opposition | Final years, death, and reputation

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Subjects: biography ; history

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