UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: December 1661

Died: 29 July 1727

1st Baron Harcourt - 3 September 1711

1st Viscount Harcourt - 11 September 1721

Knighted - 1 June 1702

Member of Privy Council - 19 October 1710

husband of Elizabeth Vernon

husband of Elizabeth Spencer

husband of Rebecca Clarke

son of Anne Waller

Inner Temple (1676 -)

Pembroke College, Oxford (- March 1677)

Solicitor General	30 May 1702	April 1707
Attorney General	April 1707	12 February 1708
Attorney General	September 1710	October 1710
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England	16 October 1710	7 April 1713
Lord High Chancellor	7 April 1713	September 1714

19 February 1690	Abingdon	Tory	Unopposed
23 October 1695	Abingdon	Tory	Unopposed
21 July 1698	Abingdon	Tory	252	48.84
3 January 1701	Abingdon	Tory	Unopposed
20 November 1701	Abingdon	Tory
16 July 1702	Abingdon	Tory	Unopposed
10 May 1705	Abingdon	Tory
19 May 1705	Bossiney	Tory	Unopposed
4 May 1708	Abingdon	Tory
20 January 1709 Petition - Sir Simon Harcourt unseated and William Hucks declared elected.
22 February 1710	Cardigan Boroughs		169	71.01
4 October 1710	Abingdon	Tory	Unopposed
16 October 1710 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir Simon Harcourt on appointment as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.