George Harcourt

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George Granville Harcourt (né Venables-Harcourt and Vernon-Harcourt, 6 August 1785 – 19 December 1861) was a British politician, the eldest son of clergyman, Edward Venables-Harcourt.

Harcourt was elected as MP for Lichfield in 1806 and for Oxfordshire in 1831.

On 27 March 1815, he married Lady Elizabeth Bingham (the eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lucan) and they had one child, Elizabeth Lavinia (d. 1858, married Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon). Harcourt's wife died in 1838 and he then married Frances Waldegrave (the widow of the 7th Earl Waldegrave and future wife of the 1st Baron Carlingford), a daughter of the noted tenor, John Braham.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir George Anson Sir John Wrottesley	Member for Lichfield 1806–1831 with Sir George Anson	Succeeded by Sir George Anson Sir Edward Scott
Preceded by John Fane Lord Norreys of Rycote	Member for Oxfordshire 1831–1862 Richard Weyland 1831–1837, Lord Norreys of Rycote 1832–1852, Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker 1837–1841, Joseph Warner Henley 1841–1862, John Sidney North 1852–1862	Succeeded by John William Fane Joseph Warner Henley John Sidney North
Honorary titles
Preceded by Charles Williams-Wynn	Father of the House 1850–1861	Succeeded by Sir Charles Burrell