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SIR WILLIAM IHARCOURT. Borx 1827,

=V HIE RIGHT ITTON. STR SO WIHLLIAM GEORGE GRANVILLE VEN- ABLES VERNON s a7, HARCOURT, M., #roma ey sivon Q.C., is the sccond son of the Rev. William \Vernon Harcourt and grandson of the late Archbishop of York. Ile was educated at Trinity, Cambridge, where he took high honours at the age of 23, He was called to the bar three years later, and wrote his well-known letters to 7/%e ZZimes over the signature * Historicus.” He was made O.C. at 39. T'wo years later he was clected as Liberal member for Oxford. In 1873 he was appointed Solicitor-Greneral and knighted. In 1886 he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer by Mr. Gladstone, of whose policy he is well known as one of the most powerful advocates,

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