The House of Harcourt is a Norman family, and named after its seigneurie of Harcourt in Normandy. Its mottos were "Gesta verbis praeveniant" (Olonde branch)...
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Harcourt House may refer to: Harcourt House, London, a former palatial residence on Cavendish Square, London Harcourt House, Edmonton, an art gallery...
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Michael Franklin Harcourt, OC (born January 6, 1943) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 30th premier of British Columbia from 1991...
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Venables Vernon Harcourt, KC (14 October 1827 – 1 October 1904) was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He was Member of Parliament for...
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Harcourt House was a palatial residence built in about 1722 by Thomas Archer on Cavendish Square. The main structure was largely demolished in 1906 leaving...
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English and British House of Commons from 1690 until 1710. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Harcourt in 1711 and sat in the House of Lords, becoming...
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Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford, was a title created twice for members of the Harcourt family, once in the Peerage of Great...
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Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt PC (born Reginald Vernon Harcourt; 31 January 1863 – 24 February 1922), was a British Liberal Party politician...
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Harcourt may refer to: Harcourt (surname) Harcourt (given name) Harcourt Parish, New Brunswick Harcourt, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community Harcourt...
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first by the Counts of Valois and then the Counts of Meulan before passing to the House of Harcourt. In 1265, it was erected into a seigneurie for them...
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Port Harcourt (Pidgin: Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria. It is the fifth most populous city in Nigeria...
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sister to the 1st Earl Harcourt. Later he assumed the additional name of Harcourt on succeeding the property including Nuneham House from his childless first...
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Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, PC, FRS (1714 – 16 September 1777), known as Viscount Harcourt between 1727 and 1749, was a British diplomat and general...
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The Rivers State Government House, also known as The Brick House or Governor's House, is located at Old GRA, Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria. It...
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by the houses of Castile, Harcourt, and Lorraine. After several extinctions the title was re-created in 1547 for Francis, then styled Count of Aumale...
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Harcourt House (Chinese: 夏愨大廈), located on Gloucester Road in the Wan Chai area of Hong Kong, is a 27 floor Grade A commercial office building. It lies...
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into the new commune of Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom. The town is 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Caen, in the Orne valley. It is part of Norman Switzerland, which...
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a member of the distinguished Harcourt family, who descended from the ancient House of Harcourt in Normandy. Harcourt was born in London, the fourth...
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seigneurie of Harcourt, near Brionne, and the county of Pont-Audemer, both of which Rollo granted to Bernard the Dane, ancestor of the lords (seigneurs) of Harcourt...
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de Harcourt was a medieval Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Bayeux. He was unsuccessfully elected as the Bishop of Salisbury. De Harcourt was...
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Dame Miranda Catherine Millais Harcourt DNZM (born 1962) is a New Zealand actress and acting coach. Harcourt's acting career began playing boy characters...
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Venables-Vernon Harcourt (1789 – April 1871) was an English cleric, founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, canon residentiary of the York...
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Earl Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1749 for Simon Harcourt, 2nd...
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George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt (1 August 1736 – 20 April 1809), styled Viscount Nuneham until inheriting the title of Earl Harcourt in 1777, was...
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Harcourt (French pronunciation: [aʁkuʁ]) is a commune in the Eure department in the Normandy region in northern France. Château d'Harcourt - a medieval...
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Daphne Merkin (category Year of birth missing (living people))
became an editor with the publishing house of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. In 1997, after Tina Brown became editor of The New Yorker, Merkin became a film...
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Mary Ethel Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt GBE (née Burns; 26 August 1874 – 7 January 1961) was an American-born British aristocrat and philanthropist....
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VIII of Harcourt (9 April 1396 – 17 August 1424, Battle of Verneuil) was a count of Aumale. He was the son of John VII of Harcourt, count of Harcourt, and...
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boarding school, first at Amberley House and then at Woodford House (Hawke's Bay). Music was important to Harcourt in her early years as it was to her...
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Harcourt (/ˈhɑːrkɔːrt/) was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. The company was...
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