B27188-Harcourt

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Name of the family:

Harcourt

Blason:

Gu. two bars or.

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On a ducal coronet or, a peacock close ppr. Supporters (of the lords Harcourt)-Two lions or, each gorged with a bar gemel gu.

Motto:

Le bon temps viendra; also, Oesta verbisprsBvenient.

Info about the family:

Stanton Harcourt and Nuneham Courtenay. co. Oxford, originally from Harcourt in Normandy, correctly styled by Col Una "an ancient and illustrious family;" its representative at the opening of the eighteenth ccAtury was Sir Simon Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of England, temp, Oeorge I., who was created Baron and Viscount Harcourt; his grandson Simon, second Viscount, was advanced to an earldom 1749, and was Lord Lieutenant of Ire!und 1772. At the death of his lordship's last surviving son, Field Marshal William, third Bart Harcourt, G.C.B., in 1830, the Peerage honours became extinct, but the estates devolved on Edward Vernon, Archbishop of York, nephew of Simon, first Bari Harcourt, and are now enjoyed by by his Grace's grandson, Edward William Harcourt, Esq., of Stanton Harcourt and Nuneham Courtenay

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