Sir WilliamHarcourt was a British lawyer, journalist, politician, and cabinet member in five British Liberal governments, who in 1894 achieved a major reform in death duties, or estate taxation.
William Venables-Vernon Harcourt (1789 – April 1871) was an English cleric, founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, [1 ] canon residentiary of the York Cathedral, and later rector of Bolton Percy.
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