The son of Bishop Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, he was a Whig MP for Aldborough (1815-20) and East Retford (1832-47.

REFERENCES TO Granville Harcourt-Vernon:

Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, 22 May 1841 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)