Granville Harcourt-Vernon (1792–1879)

Granville Harcourt-Vernon (26 July 1792 – 8 December 1879), was a British politician.

Harcourt-Vernon was born on 26 July 1792. He was the sixth son of the Most Reverend Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York and Lady Anne Leveson-Gower. Among his siblings were scientist William Vernon Harcourt, Francis Venables-Vernon-Harcourt and Octavius Vernon Harcourt.^[1]

His father was the third son of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, and his mother was the daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford.^[1]

Harcourt-Vernon was Member of Parliament for Aldborough between 1815 and 1820 and for East Retford between 1832 and 1847.^[2]

Harcourt-Vernon was twice married. In 1814, he married Frances Julia Eyre (d. 1844), daughter of Anthony Hardolph Eyre and the former Francisca Alicia Bootle (third daughter of Richard Wilbraham-Bootle). They had several children, including:^[1]

• Granville Edward Harcourt-Vernon (1816–1861), MP for Newark who married Lady Selina Catherine Meade, daughter of Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, in 1854.
• Evelyn Hardolph Harcourt-Vernon (1821–1890), the Prebendary of Lincoln and Rural Dean of Bingham who married Jane Catherine St John-Mildmay, a daughter of Edward St John-Mildmay, in 1849.^[3]
• Henry Arthur Harcourt-Vernon (1835–1862), a Major.^[1]
• Charles Egerton Harcourt-Vernon (1827–1872), Captain in the Royal Navy, who married Louisa Anne Garth in 1865.^[1]
• Marianne Harcourt-Vernon (1823–1873), who married Humphrey St John-Mildmay, MP for Southampton, in 1843.^[1]

After her death in February 1844 he married secondly the Hon. Pyne Jesse Trevor, daughter of Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre and widow of John Henry Cotterell, in 1845. There were no children from this marriage.^[1]

She died in March 1872. Harcourt-Vernon survived her by seven years and died in December 1879, aged 87.^[1]

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Granville Harcourt-Vernon