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HE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM GEORGE GRANVILLE VENABLES VERNON HARCOURT, M.P., Q.C., is the second son of the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt and grandson of the late Archbishop of York. He was educated at Trinity, Cambridge, where he took high honours at the age of 24. He was called to the bar three years later, and wrote his well-known letters to The Times over the signature "Historicus." He was made Q.C. at 39. Two years later he was elected as Liberal member for Oxford. In 1873 he was appointed Solicitor-General and knighted. In 1886 he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer by Mr. Gladstone, of whose policy he is well known as one of the most powerful advocates.