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Simon Harcourt (1684–1720)

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Harcourt remained in poor health and took the waters in Wales and abroad. He died in Paris on 1 July 1720, apparently from liver damage through drinking too much burgundy and champagne and was buried at Stanton Harcourt.
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by his first wife, Rebecca Clarke, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Clarke, his father's chaplain. His mother and elder brother died when he was young and he became heir apparent to the
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On 21 July 1709, Harcourt married Elizabeth Evelyn (died 1760), daughter of John Evelyn of Wootton, Surrey, and sister of his Eton schoolfriend,
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A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire
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on 3 November 1702. In 1706, he travelled abroad in Italy, and that year attended
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where he was awarded MA at Oxford in the previous year, Wallingford and
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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Index

House of Commons
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt
Viscountcy
Eton College
Inner Temple
Christ Church, Oxford
Padua University
Member of Parliament
Wallingford
1710 general election
1713 general election
Oxfordshire
Oxford University
Abingdon
1715 general election
Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet
2nd Viscount
Earl Harcourt
George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon
"'Haak-Harman', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 626-651"



"HARCOURT, Simon III (1684-1720), of Nuneham Courtnay, Oxon"
Burke, Sir Bernard
ISBN
0-8063-0789-7
Parliament of Great Britain
Thomas Renda
Grey Neville

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