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Authorised form of nameHarcourt; William Venables Vernon (1789 - 1871)
Other forms of nameWilliam Venables
Other forms of surnameVernon
Dates1789 - 1871
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSudbury, Derbyshire, England
Date of birthJune 1789
Date of death01 April 1871
OccupationClergyman
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
Christ Church College, Oxford. BA (1811), MA (1811)
Career:
Entered the Royal Navy and served on the West Indian Station (for 5 years); became interested in science while at Oxford; conducted chemical analyses in his own laboratory; one of the founders of the British Association; Canon of York (1824); Rector of Wheldrake, Yorkshire (1824)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election29/04/1824
RelationshipsFourth son of Edward Venables Vernon-Harcourt, Archibishop of York; married (1824) Mary, daughter of Col William Gooch; changed his name to Harcourt (c 1830); father of Sir William Vernon Harcourt (FRS 1881); inhereited the Nuneham-Courtenay estate on the death of his elder brother, George Granville-Harcourt (1861)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1871-1872 vol 20 pp xiii-xvii signed by J P
CodeNA5486
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1824/05Harcourt, William Venables Vernon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/743/1/176Letter from William Vernon Harcourt, Nuneham Park, Abingdon, to [John Hall] Gladstone19 November [no year]
MS/426/152Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Rev W V [William Venables Vernon] Harcourt28 October 1845
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