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Harcourt was the son of the Honourable Simon Harcourt and the grandson of Simon Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, who had been created Baron Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford, in 1711, and Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford, in 1721.
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Harcourt and was
Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.
On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.
Replacing Harcourt as party leader was Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur.
Now called Calabar, the city remained an important port shipping ivory, timber, beeswax, and palm produce until 1916, when the railway terminus was opened at Port Harcourt, 145 km to the west.
When he was 20, he sold the company to Harcourt, Brace & World for $ 100, 000 ( roughly $ 500, 000 in 2006 dollars ) plus royalties.
Arion on the dolphin is the imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers based in Boston and New York ; the figure was used previously by the sixteenth-century Basel printer Johannes Oporinus as his device.
Following their 1947 divorce he married the British ballerina and actress Diana Gould, whose mother was the pianist Evelyn Suart ( who had played with artists such as Eugène Ysaÿe and Karel Halíř ), and whose stepfather was Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
A much-abridged edition was published by Harcourt Brace in 1934, but the full version remained out of print until Something Else Press republished it in 1966.
In 1931, Harcourt Williams used the conclusion of A Shrew ( in which, after the Petruchio / Katherina story is finished, the Lord returns the now sleeping Sly to the inn where he was found, and who, upon waking up, announces he has had a dream in which he has learned how to tame his own wife ).
During this time Henry V had a policy of creating Norman titles for his aristocrats, and thus Beaufort was created Count of Harcourt in 1418.
It should be emphasised that Harcourt did not receive the confession directly ( he was nine at the time that Macleod died ) but that it passed ( if it did ) from Macleod's sister to the wife of Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary, and thence to Harcourt's father Sir William Harcourt, the then Home Secretary.
It was split into two key camps, the counts of Tancarville and the counts of Harcourt — which had been in conflict for generations.
Davies also penned a short novella version of the tale, which was published by Harcourt Brace simultaneously with the film's release.
Despite having sat in Parliament for only four years, Chamberlain hoped for a cabinet position, and told Sir William Harcourt that he was prepared to lead a revolt and field Radical candidates in borough elections.
The foreword does not appear in some modern editions of the book, though it was included, for instance, in Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's first American edition in the 1950s.
The courtship of Harcourt and Alithea is a comparatively uplifting love story in which the witty Harcourt wins the hand of Pinchwife's sister Alithea from the hands of the Upper-class town snob Sparkish whom she was engaged to until she discovered he only loved her for her money.
The same year Merton's manuscript for The Seven Storey Mountain was accepted by Harcourt Brace & Company for publication.
For example, in 1256, a court was asked to quash a writ as " novel, unheard of, and against reason " ( Abbot of Lilleshall v Harcourt ( 1256 ) 96 SS xxix 44 ).
Edward Carson was born at 4 Harcourt Street, in Dublin.
Three months before BC Benefits was introduced by the Harcourt government, a protracted conflict began with the elements of the province's environmental movement.
Although Harcourt was not implicated in either the raid or the probe and was later fully exonerated, he resigned nevertheless and the party was led into the 1996 provincial general election by Glen Clark.
Harcourt and son
* D ' Harcourt, R., C. F. Meyer: Sa vie son œuvre ( Paris, 1913 )
He was the third son of the George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon ( 1710 – 1780 ), and took the additional name of Harcourt on succeeding to the property of his cousin, the last Earl Harcourt, in 1831.
His fourth son was William Vernon Harcourt, the founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
His eighth son was Admiral Octavius Henry Cyril Harcourt whilst his youngest daughter, Georgiana, distinguished herself as a translator.
He was born at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, son of Dr. John Aikin, Unitarian divine, and received his elementary education at the Nonconformist academy at Warrington, where his father was a tutor.
In October 1218 reinforcements arrived including the Legate Pelagius with the English earls Ranulf of Chester, Saer of Winchester, and William Aubigny of Arundel together with Odonel Aubigny, Robert Fitzwalter, John Lacy of Chester, William Harcourt and Oliver the illegitimate son of King John.
Harcourt was the second son of the Rev.
His father was himself the fourth son and eventually heir of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York and his wife Lady Anne Leveson-Gower.
As Harcourt himself was a second son, and thus unlikely to ever have to pay such duties himself, though this proved to not be the case, it was often quipped that this introduction was a " second son's revenge ".
By this second marriage, Harcourt had his third and final son:
* William Vernon Harcourt ( scientist ) ( 1789 – 1871 ), son of the archbishop, father of the politician, and founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
* William Vernon Harcourt ( politician ) ( 1827 – 1904 ), son of the scientist, and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Harcourt was born in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, the only surviving son of politician Sir William Vernon Harcourt and his first wife Maria Theresa Lister.
* Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt ( 30 March 1900-1981 ); married Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton ; their elder son was John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton
He was the only son of Sir Philip Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire ( died 20 March 1688 ), by his first wife, whom he married in 1660, Anne, daughter of Sir William Waller, was born in December 1661 at Stanton Harcourt, and was educated at a school at Shilton, Oxfordshire and at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Simon Harcourt ( 1684 – 1 July 1720 ), who was MP for Wallingford, and predeceased his father, the lord chancellor, leaving a son, married Elizabeth Evelyn, sister of Sir John Evelyn, of Wotton, and daughter of John Evelyn, by whom he had one son and four daughters:
Their second son was Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York.
He is the great-great-grandson of Admiral Frederick Edward Vernon-Harcourt, fourth son of the aforementioned Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, third son of the first Baron.
Born at Gurcy-le-Châtel ( Seine-et-Marne ), he was the son of Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d ' Haussonville and Louise née Louise Albertine, princesse de Broglie ; in 1865 he married Mlle Pauline d ' Harcourt.
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