Attention: Femme (Elizabeth VENABLES-VERNON) est aussi son cousin.
Il est marié avec Elizabeth VENABLES-VERNON.
Ils se sont mariés le 26 septembre 1765 à Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, il avait 29 ans.
George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt (1 August 1736 - 20 April 1809), styled Viscount Nuneham until 1777, was an English politician, patron of the arts, and gardener.
Harcourt was the eldest son of Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt and his wife, Rebecca Le Baas. He spent two years at Westminster School, and had art lessons from Alexander Cozens and other masters.
In 1754, Harcourt travelled in Germany and Italy with George Bussy Villiers, and William Whitehead as tutor to Villiers. His Grand Tour continued to 1756. Whitehead later wrote poems about both family estates, Middleton Park and Nuneham Courtenay.
Harcourt was elected to parliament for St Albans in 1761, remaining a member until 1767. He was not recorded as having spoken in the House. He was a supporter of John Wilkes, a friend of Catherine Macaulay, and an opponent of the war against the American colonies. He entered the House of Lords in 1777 after his father's tragic death at their estate at Nuneham House, where he drowned in a well trying to rescue his dog.
In 1772, Harcourt began to redesign the gardens at Nuneham Courtenay, assisted by William Mason, moving on to the park in 1777. From 1779 Capability Brown was brought in to advise, on the park and gardens; and Paul Sandby, perhaps a contact made through Whitehead, on the interior of the house. As a patron Harcourt employed Thomas Pitt on a monument to his father, and set up a poetry prize on the Ancient Britons, won by George Richards.
Family
Harcourt married Elizabeth, daughter of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, a cousin, in 1765
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harcourt,_2nd_Earl_Harcourt
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