The Viscount Harcourt | |
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First Commissioner of Works | |
In office 10 December 1905 – 3 November 1910 | |
Monarchs | Edward VII George V |
Prime Minister | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | The Lord Windsor |
Succeeded by | The Earl Beauchamp |
In office 25 May 1915 – 10 December 1916 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | The Lord Emmott |
Succeeded by | Sir Alfred Mond, Bt |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
In office 3 November 1910 – 25 May 1915 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | The Earl of Crewe |
Succeeded by | Bonar Law |
Personal details | |
Born | Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire | 31 January 1863
Died | 24 February 1922 Brook Street, London | (aged 59)
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse |
Mary Ethel Burns (m. 1899) |
Children | 4, including Doris Harcourt and William Harcourt |
Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt PC (born Reginald Vernon Harcourt; 31 January 1863 – 24 February 1922), was a British Liberal Party politician who held the Cabinet post of Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1910 to 1915. Lord Harcourt's nickname was "Loulou".