William Vernon Harcourt, British Liberal statesman mb-code 1629307 the River Thames and Chelsea

the River Thames and Chelsea from East Wandsworth

The problems in Ireland had brought down governments in the past

Earl of Howe'

'Het hoog-en lager-huys van Engelandt'

William Vernon Harcourt, British Liberal statesman mb-code 1629307 the River Thames and ChelseaWilliam Vernon Harcourt, British Liberal statesman, c1890. Harcourt (1827 1904) first entered Parliament as a Liberal Member for Oxford in 1868. He served in Gladstone's governments as Home Secretary (1880 1885) and as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886, 1892 1895). He was Leader of the Liberal Party in opposition between 1896 and 1898. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.