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Harcourt was born at Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, the only surviving son of politician Sir William Vernon Harcourt and his first wife, Maria Theresa Lister. He was originally christened with the name Reginald, in honour of his father's university friend Reginald Cholmondeley, but when George Cornewall Lewis died just over two months after, he was rechristened with the name Lewis. [1]
The manor of Stanton Harcourt has remained in the Harcourt family to the present day, although from 1756 to 1948 their main residence was at Nuneham House, also in Oxfordshire. Simon Harcourt was created Baron Harcourt in 1711 and Viscount Harcourt in 1721.
In 1904, after the death of Sir William Harcourt, Nuneham House passed to his son, Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, known by many as "Loulou". He had recently married Mary Ethel Burns, a niece of American financier and banker, J. P. Morgan. The estate inherited by the young couple was in need of major renovation, which they could not afford.
Lewis Harcourt John Maden. The by-election was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting Liberal MP, Lewis Harcourt as the first Viscount Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire. Harcourt had himself been elected as MP for Rossendale in a by-election in 1904.
It was first created in the Peerage of Great Britain for Lord Chancellor Simon Harcourt, who was created Baron Harcourt in 1711, Viscount Harcourt in 1721, and Earl Harcourt and Viscount Nuneham in 1749. For more information on these titles, which all became extinct in 1830, see Earl Harcourt. [2] 1st Viscount Harcourt, of the second creation
Edward William Harcourt (1825–1891) of Nuneham Edith Harcourt married Murray Finch-Hatton 12th Earl of Winchilsea, son of the 10th Earl and Fanny Rice (great niece of Jane Austen) Right Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904) Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt married Mary Ethel Burns, niece of J. P. Morgan.
Harcourt was born in London, [2] the fourth and final child but only son born to Lewis Harcourt (1863–1922) and Mary Ethel Burns (1874–1961), an American heiress who in 1918 was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. [3] Doris Harcourt, a socialite and member of the Bright Young Things, was his eldest sister. [4]
Despite being partially exposed in 1873, it wasn't until 1909 that Lewis Harcourt, the First Commissioner of Works, had the moat cleared. While the bridge was found to be in good condition, with one course of the original masonry left above the arches in some places, little of the pinnacles and the ornaments that topped it could be found.