Sunday, 21 December 2014

712 Harcourt Vanden-Bempe Johnstone




Constituency : Scarborough  1869-80

Harcourt  succeeded  his  father  John  both  as  baronet  and  MP  for  Scarborough.

Through  his  mother  Harcourt  was  also  the  grandson  of  an  Archbishop  of  York. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  lieyutenant  in  the  2nd  Life  Guards.

In  1881  Harcourt  went  to  the  Lords  as  Baron  Derwent.

He  died  in  1916  aged  87.

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