William Vernon Harcourt, British Liberal statesman mb-code 1629307 c1794 (c1890-c1893)

c1794 (c1890-c1893)

In the foreground is the site for the new Ballium Wall

The problems in Ireland had brought down governments in the past

'Siegmund the Walsung thou does see

Court of the Myrtles

William Vernon Harcourt, British Liberal statesman mb-code 1629307 c1794 (c1890-c1893)William Vernon Harcourt, British Liberal statesman, c1890. Harcourt (1827 1904) first entered Parliament as a Liberal Member for Oxford in 1868. He served in Gladstone's governments as Home Secretary (1880 1885) and as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886, 1892 1895). He was Leader of the Liberal Party in opposition between 1896 and 1898. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.