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Edward Harcourt

Edward Harcourt was an English clergyman who was Archbishop of York from 1808 to 1847.

He was the son of the 1st Lord Vernon (d. 1780), and who took the name of Harcourt alone instead of Vernon on succeeding to the property of his cousin, the last Earl Harcourt, in 1831

One of his younger sons was William Vernon Harcourt.

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