biography
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Harcourt, Sir William (George Granville Venables Vernon)
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pronunciation:
[hah(r)kaw(r)t]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1827–1904)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, practised as a lawyer from 1854, taught international law at Cambridge, and entered Parliament in 1868. He was solicitor general (1873–4), home secretary (1880–5), and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886, 1892–4). On Gladstone's retirement in 1893 he became Leader of the House of Commons. He resigned the Liberal leadership in 1898 but remained a private member of the Party. He is best remembered for his revision of death duties in 1894. |
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