SIR WILLIAM VERNON H COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 3 October 1904, Page 4

SIR WILLIAM VERNON H COURT.

The Right. Hon. Sir: William fee Granville Venables Vernon Haft, M.P., P. 0., L.L.D.,. whose ;death|iI nounced in to-day's cables as lg I occurred suddenly at Nunchamlj, in Oxfordshire, was the seconcn of the Rev. William ...Vevnon |- court, and grandson of a formeribishop of York. He was boifi October 14th, 1827, was educalt Trinity College, Cambridge,. of It he was a scholar and graduated!, high honors in 1851. He was caJft the bar at the Inner Temple in 185§ went to the Home circuit. He un cessfully contested the Kirkcaldy Bu in 1858. He was appointed Qui Counsel in 1866, and was return! the House of Commons for the cit Oxford in the Liberal interest in % He was elected Professor of Internal. Law in the University of Cambri! March 2nd, 1869, and he was a meS of the Royal Commission for ament

the Neutrality Laws, and of the Re Commission for amending the Natn isation Laws. He was appointed E citor-General in November, 18735 which occasion he was knighted, ant held that office until the resign'atij Mr Gladstone's administration in 1 following February, When Mr Gj stone returned to power in May, 1880$ W. Harcourt was nominated Secretarf State for the Home Department. | going down.to Oxford for re-election-

that occasion he was defeated, polfi only 2681 votes against 2785 record in favor of his Conservative a tagonist, *Mr A. W. - Hall. At I juncture Mr Plimsoll, ' M.P. | Derby, very generously accepted | Chiltem Hundreds, whereupon Sir | Harcourt was elected in his. stef_ Sir W. Harcourt was presented with 1 freedom of the City of Glasgow on 0 tober 25th, 1881. He went out of ofSJ with his party in June, 1885, but on a return of the Liberals to power in Janj a'ry, ISS6, he was made Chancellor f the Exchequer, and was re-appointedl this post hi 1892. He was re-elected f Derby in 1885, 1886, and 1892. He w one of the cleverest Parliamentary d haters, and on Mr Gladstone's retireme in 1893 he became leader of the Hous of Commons under. Lord Rosebery^ H: Budget brought forward 'in 1894 create a sensation since it equalised the deat duties on real.and personal property an exempted large sections of the poore business and professional. classes fron paying income tax. At the general election in 1895 he was defeated at. Derb*j! (due largely to his championship of Jocal option), but was returned for; the ;wesE division of Monmouthshire. His^luke-j warm support of liis chief led to Lord| Rosebery's resignation of the Liberal!

leadership in October, 1896. Sir W. Harcourt was one of the original contributors to the Saturday - Review, and wrote various political ; letters and pamphlets on international law; in the

Times, published under the. pseudonym of "Historicus.^ . The latter were; reprinted.^ volume with considerable additions in 1863. ; Sir, William ■ Harcourt marked, jfirst,- in 1859, Therese, daughter of Lady TKerese Lewis, (aiint of the Earl of Clarendon); and, secondly^ m 1576, Mrs Ives, daughter of the late John Lothrop Motley^ the historian,and" for some time United States Minister in * London. . . ,