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About Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, PC of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the 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 Queen Anne's Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was her solicitor-general and her commissioner for arranging the union with Scotland. He took part in the negotiations preceding the Peace of Utrecht.
Everything about Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt →- Occupation
- judge, politician, jurist
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, member of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 2nd Parliament of Great Britain, Member of the 1690-95 Parliament
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of England
- Born
- December 1661
- Died
- December 28, 1727, July 23, 1727