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In Foster as HARCOURT.
In VENN
M.A. from TRINITY, 1783. [3rd s. of George, 1st Lord Vernon (by his 3rd wife, Martha, 3rd dau. of the Hon. Simon Harcourt). B. Oct. 10, 1757, at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire. School, Westminster.] Matric. from Christ Church, Oxford, July 2, 1774; Fellow of All Souls, 1777; B.C.L. (Oxford) 1780; D.C.L. (Oxford) 1786. Ord. priest, 1781. R. of Sudbury, Derbs., 1782-1803. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1785-1808. Preb. of Gloucester, 1785-91. Bishop of Carlisle, 1791-1807. Archbishop of York, 1807-47. P.C., 1808. Lord High Almoner to King George III and later to Queen Victoria. Member of the Queen's Council in charge of George III. Took the name of Harcourt, 1831, on inheriting the estates of that family. Declined the renewal of the Harcourt peerage, 1838. Member of the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1835. Married, Feb. 5, 1784, Anne Leveson-Gower, 3rd dau. of Granville, 1st Marquess of Stafford, and had 16 children. Author, Sermons. Died Nov. 5, 1847, at the Palace, Bishopsthorpe. Half-brother of George V. (1753); father of Leveson V. (1854, sub Harcourt) and William V. V. (1833, sub Harcourt). (Northants. Clergy; Record of Old Westminsters; Al. Oxon.; Cox, Churches of Derbs.; D.N.B.)