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He was the second son of the Rev. Canon William Vernon Harcourt, of Nuneham Park, Oxford, himself the fourth son and eventually heir of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York. William George was therefore born a Vernon, and by his connection with the old families of Vernon and Harcourt was related to many of the great English houses, a fact of which he was proud. In later life his descent from the Plantagenets was joked about by his political opponents. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in the classical tripos in 1851. He was called to the bar in 1854, became a QC in 1866, and was appointed Whewell professor of international law at the University of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is the second-oldest academic institution in the English-speaking world (after Oxford). According to legend, the University was founded in 1209 by scholars escaping Oxford after a fight with locals. Cambridge and the University in 1869. He quickly made his mark in London society as a speaker; he contributed largely to the Saturday ReviewSaturday Review is a UK publication for which Winston Churchill reported., and wrote some famous letters (1862) to The TimesThe Times is a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. The Times is published by News International, a subsidiary of the News Corporation group, owned by Rupert Murdoch. For much of its history, the newspaper was regarded as without rival, the 'ne over the signature of "Historicus," in opposition to the recognition of the Southern States as aggressors in the American Civil WarThe American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as "the U. the Union," " the North," or "the Yankees"; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as "the Confederat.
He married, first, in 1859, Thérèse (d. 1863) Lister, by whom he had one son, Lewis Harcourt (b. 1863), afterwards first commissioner of works both in Sir Henry Campbell-BannermanSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ( September 7, 1836 April 22, 1908) was a British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister from December 5 1905 until resigning due to ill health on April 3 1908. Campbell-Bannerman was born in Glasgow in 1836 as "Henry's 1905 ministry (included in the cabinet in 1907) and in AsquithHerbert Henry Asquith 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( September 12, 1852 February 15, 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Born in Morley, Yorkshire and educated at the City of London School, he won a schola's cabinet (1908); and secondly, in 1876, Elizabeth Ives, a widow and the daughter of John Lothrop MotleyJohn Lothrop Motley ( April 15, 1814 May 29, 1877), was an American historian. The son of Thomas Motley, he was born at Dorchester, now a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts), and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He then studied at Gottingen, where he became a f, the historian. By his second wife he had another son, Robert (b. 1878).