Constituency : Barnsley 1885-8
Courtney won the new seat of Barnsley.
Courtney was the son of a Halifax magistrate. He was educated at local grammar schools then joined a firm of solicitors. He then went to Cambridge where he won a number of prizes. In 1875 he became a lecturer in law and moral science then in 1881 he became a barrister.
Courtney introduced bills to abolish primogeniture on which he was something of an expert and to amend the blasphemy laws.
In 1888 Courtney resigned his seat to take up a post at Cambridge. He retired in 1918.
He died in 1930 on his eighty-third birthday.
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