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unusual facts about William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt



Baron Vernon

As a prominent son and forefather of the present title holder, their second son was Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York who succeeded to the Harcourt family estates on the death of his cousin the William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt and so assumed by Royal License the surname of Harcourt, with his children known as Vernon-Harcourt.

William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt

A statue of Lord Harcourt was commissioned (from Robert William Sievier) with the intention that it should be erected at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, but at the insistence of the royal family, it was placed, instead, in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.


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