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class="infobox-data">29 July 1727</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Oxford" title="Pembroke College, Oxford">Pembroke College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt</b>, <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council of Great Britain">PC</a> (December 1661 – 29 July 1727) of <a href="/wiki/Stanton_Harcourt" title="Stanton Harcourt">Stanton Harcourt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, was an English <a href="/wiki/Tory" title="Tory">Tory</a> politician who sat in the <a href="/wiki/English_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="English House of Commons">English</a> and <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">British House of Commons</a> from 1690 until 1710. He was raised to the <a href="/wiki/Peerage" title="Peerage">peerage</a> as <a href="/wiki/Baron_Harcourt" class="mw-redirect" title="Baron Harcourt">Baron Harcourt</a> in 1711 and sat in the House of Lords, becoming <a href="/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain" title="Anne, Queen of Great Britain">Queen Anne</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Chancellor_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain">Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain</a>. He was her solicitor-general and her commissioner for arranging the union with Scotland. He took part in the negotiations preceding the <a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Utrecht" title="Peace of Utrecht">Peace of Utrecht</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Harcourt was born in December 1661 at <a href="/wiki/Stanton_Harcourt" title="Stanton Harcourt">Stanton Harcourt</a>, Oxfordshire, to Stanton Harcourt, the only son of Sir Philip Harcourt, and his first wife Anne Waller, daughter of Sir William Waller of <a href="/wiki/Osterley_Park" title="Osterley Park">Osterley Park</a>, Middlesex. He was educated at a school at <a href="/wiki/Shilton,_Oxfordshire" title="Shilton, Oxfordshire">Shilton, Oxfordshire</a>, under Samuel Birch, to 1677 and was admitted at <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a> in 1676.<sup id="cite_ref-HOP_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He matriculated at <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Oxford" title="Pembroke College, Oxford">Pembroke College, Oxford</a>, on 30 March 1677, aged 15, and was awarded BA in 1679.<sup id="cite_ref-ALUM_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALUM-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1683, he was <a href="/wiki/Called_to_the_Bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Called to the Bar">Called to the Bar</a>. He had four brothers and four sisters from his father's second marriage in 1674 to Elizabeth Lee. He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father on 20 March 1688. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Harcourt was recorder of <a href="/wiki/Abingdon,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Abingdon, England">Abingdon</a> from June to December 1687 and, after a break at the time of the revolution, from October 1689 to April 1711. At the <a href="/wiki/1690_English_general_election" title="1690 English general election">1690 English general election</a>, he was returned as <a href="/wiki/Tory" title="Tory">Tory</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)">Abingdon</a>. In 1701 he was nominated by the Commons to conduct the <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Impeachment in the United Kingdom">impeachment</a> of <a href="/wiki/John_Somers,_Lord_Somers" class="mw-redirect" title="John Somers, Lord Somers">Lord Somers</a>. In 1702 he became solicitor-general and was knighted by <a href="/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain" title="Anne, Queen of Great Britain">Queen Anne</a>. In the same year he became bencher and treasurer of his Inn and was awarded DCL at Oxford University. At the <a href="/wiki/1705_English_general_election" title="1705 English general election">1705 English general election</a>, he was returned as MP for <a href="/wiki/Bossiney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)">Bossiney</a>, and as commissioner for arranging the union with <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> which he was largely instrumental in promoting. Harcourt was appointed attorney-general in 1707, but resigned office in the following year when his friend <a href="/wiki/Robert_Harley,_1st_Earl_of_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford">Robert Harley</a>, afterwards Earl of Oxford, was dismissed.<sup id="cite_ref-HOP_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Harcourt defended <a href="/wiki/Henry_Sacheverell" title="Henry Sacheverell">Sacheverell</a> at the bar of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> in 1710, being then without a seat in Parliament; but in the same year was returned for Cardigan, and in September again became attorney-general. In October he was appointed lord keeper of the great seal, and in virtue of this office he presided in the House of Lords for some months without a peerage, until, on 3 September 1711, he was created Baron Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt; but it was not till April 1713 that he received the appointment of Lord Chancellor. In 1710 he had purchased the <a href="/wiki/Nuneham_Courtenay" title="Nuneham Courtenay">Nuneham Courtenay</a> estate in Oxfordshire, but his usual place of residence continued to be at <a href="/wiki/Cokethorpe" class="mw-redirect" title="Cokethorpe">Cokethorpe</a> near Stanton Harcourt, where he once received a state visit from <a href="/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain" title="Anne, Queen of Great Britain">Queen Anne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HOP_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the negotiations preceding the <a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Utrecht" title="Peace of Utrecht">Peace of Utrecht</a>, Harcourt took an important part. There is no sufficient evidence for the allegations of the <a href="/wiki/British_Whig_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="British Whig Party">Whigs</a> that Harcourt entered into treasonable relations with the <a href="/wiki/The_Old_Pretender" class="mw-redirect" title="The Old Pretender">Pretender</a>. On the accession of <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain" title="George I of Great Britain">George I</a> however, he was deprived of office and retired to Cokethorpe, where he enjoyed the society of men of letters, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Swift</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Pope</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Prior" title="Matthew Prior">Prior</a> and other famous writers being among his frequent guests. With Swift, however, he had occasional quarrels, during one of which the great satirist bestowed on him the sobriquet of "Trimming Harcourt."<sup id="cite_ref-HOP_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He exerted himself to <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_of_Robert_Harley,_Earl_of_Oxford" title="Impeachment of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford">defeat the impeachment</a> of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Harley,_1st_Earl_of_Oxford_and_Earl_Mortimer" title="Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer">Lord Oxford</a> in 1717, and in 1723 he was active in obtaining a pardon for another old political friend, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Bolingbroke" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Bolingbroke">Lord Bolingbroke</a>. In 1721 Harcourt was created a viscount and returned to the privy councils; and on several occasions during the king's absences from England he was on the Council of Regency.<sup id="cite_ref-HOP_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1726, he acquired the manor of <a href="/wiki/Cogges" title="Cogges">Cogges</a> from the heirs of <a href="/wiki/Blake_baronets" title="Blake baronets">Sir Francis Blake</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Private_life">Private life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Private life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Harcourt enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator; <a href="/wiki/Speaker_Onslow" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaker Onslow">Speaker Onslow</a> going so far as to say that "Harcourt had the greatest skill and power of speech of any man I ever knew in a public assembly." He was a member of the famous Saturday Club, frequented by the chief literati and wits of the period, with several of whom he corresponded. Some letters to him from Pope are preserved in the Harcourt Papers. His portrait was painted by <a href="/wiki/Godfrey_Kneller" title="Godfrey Kneller">Kneller</a>; it was once at Nuneham House. </p><p>Harcourt married first at <a href="/wiki/St_Marylebone" class="mw-redirect" title="St Marylebone">St Marylebone</a> on 18 October 1680 Rebecca Clarke (buried at <a href="/wiki/Chipping_Norton" title="Chipping Norton">Chipping Norton</a>, Oxfordshire, 16 May 1687), daughter of the <a href="/wiki/Rev." class="mw-redirect" title="Rev.">Rev.</a> Thomas Clarke, his father's <a href="/wiki/Chaplain" title="Chaplain">chaplain</a>, by whom he had five children; secondly Elizabeth Spencer (c. 1657 – <a href="/wiki/Downing_Street" title="Downing Street">Downing Street</a>, 16 June 1724), daughter of Richard Spencer; and thirdly in Oxfordshire on 30 September 1724 Elizabeth Vernon (c. 1678 – 12 July 1748), daughter of Sir <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vernon_(1666-1726)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vernon (1666-1726) (page does not exist)">Thomas Vernon</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Twickenham_Park" title="Twickenham Park">Twickenham Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HOP_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left children by his first wife only: </p> <ul><li>Hon. <a href="/wiki/Simon_Harcourt_(1684%E2%80%931720)" title="Simon Harcourt (1684–1720)">Simon Harcourt</a> (1684 – 1 July 1720), who was <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">MP</a> for <a href="/wiki/Wallingford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)">Wallingford</a>, and predeceased his father, the Lord Chancellor, leaving a son, married Elizabeth Evelyn, sister of Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Evelyn" title="John Evelyn">John Evelyn</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Wotton,_Surrey" title="Wotton, Surrey">Wotton</a>, and daughter of John Evelyn, by whom he had one son and four daughters: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Harcourt,_1st_Earl_Harcourt" title="Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt">Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt</a></li> <li>Hon. Martha Harcourt (15 July 1715 – <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lower_Grosvenor_Street" title="Lower Grosvenor Street">Lower Grosvenor Street</a>, 8 April 1794), married at <a href="/wiki/St_George_Hanover_Square" title="St George Hanover Square">St George</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hanover_Square,_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanover Square, London">Hanover Square</a>, on 10 April 1744 <a href="/wiki/George_Venables-Vernon,_1st_Baron_Vernon" title="George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon">George Venables-Vernon</a>, afterwards <a href="/wiki/Baron_Vernon" title="Baron Vernon">Baron Vernon</a> (9 February 1708 – 21 August 1780)</li> <li>Hon. Anne Harcourt</li> <li>Hon. Elizabeth Harcourt</li> <li>Hon. daughter Harcourt</li></ul></li> <li>Hon. Philip Harcourt, died young</li> <li>Hon. Anne Harcourt, married John Barlow</li> <li>Hon. Arabella Harcourt, married Herbert Aubrey</li></ul> <p>He died at 2am at <a href="/wiki/Harcourt_House_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Harcourt House (London)">Harcourt House</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cavendish_Square" title="Cavendish Square">Cavendish Square</a>, and was interred at Stanton Harcourt 4 August. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HOP_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HOP_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HOP_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HOP_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HOP_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HOP_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/harcourt-simon-i-1661-1727">"HARCOURT, Simon I (1661–1727), of Essex Street, London; Inner Temple; Chipping Norton and Cokethorpe, Oxon"</a>. 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(London, 1848);</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Burnet" title="Gilbert Burnet">Gilbert Burnet</a>, <i>History of his own Time</i> (with notes by earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, etc., Oxford, 1833);</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Henry_Stanhope,_5th_Earl_Stanhope" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope">Earl Stanhope</a>, <i>History of England, comprising the reign of Queen Anne until the Peace of Utrecht</i> (London, 1870).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarek" class="citation web cs1">Marek, Miroslav. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://genealogy.euweb.cz/harcourt/harcourt9.html">"Harcourt"</a>. <i>genealogy.euweb.cz</i>. 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text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)">Abingdon</a> </b><br />1690–1705 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Grey_Neville" title="Grey Neville">Grey Neville</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Manley_(MP)" title="John Manley (MP)">John Manley</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Hooker_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Hooker (MP) (page does not exist)">William Hooker</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Bossiney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)">Bossiney</a> </b><br />1705–1707 <br />With: <b> <a href="/wiki/John_Manley_(MP)" title="John Manley (MP)">John Manley</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; 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text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/James_Jennings_(MP)" title="James Jennings (MP)">James Jennings</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="2">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">In Commission</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Lord_Keeper_of_the_Great_Seal" title="Lord Keeper of the Great Seal">Lord Keeper of the Great Seal</a> </b><br />1710–1713 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="2">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper,_1st_Baron_Cowper" class="mw-redirect" title="William Cowper, 1st Baron Cowper">The Lord Cowper</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Chancellor_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain">Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain</a> </b><br />1713–1714 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #DDCEF2;">Legal offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Hawles" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Hawles">Sir John Hawles</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_for_England_and_Wales" title="Solicitor General for England and Wales">Solicitor General</a> </b><br />1702–1707 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="2">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_James_Montagu" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir James Montagu">Sir James Montagu</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Northey_(barrister)" title="Edward Northey (barrister)">Sir Edward Northey</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_for_England_and_Wales" title="Attorney General for England and Wales">Attorney General</a> </b><br />1707–1708 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_James_Montagu" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir James Montagu">Sir James Montagu</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; 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<li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Talbot,_1st_Baron_Talbot" title="Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot">Talbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Yorke,_1st_Earl_of_Hardwicke" title="Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke">Hardwicke</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Henley,_1st_Earl_of_Northington" title="Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington">Northington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pratt,_1st_Earl_Camden" title="Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden">Pratt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Yorke" title="Charles Yorke">Yorke</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bathurst,_2nd_Earl_Bathurst" title="Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst">Bathurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Thurlow,_1st_Baron_Thurlow" title="Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow">Thurlow</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Thurlow,_1st_Baron_Thurlow" title="Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow">Thurlow</a></li> <li><i>In Commission <a 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Eldon">Eldon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Erskine,_1st_Baron_Erskine" title="Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine">Erskine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Scott,_1st_Earl_of_Eldon" title="John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon">Eldon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Copley,_1st_Baron_Lyndhurst" title="John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst">Lyndhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Brougham,_1st_Baron_Brougham_and_Vaux" title="Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux">Brougham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Copley,_1st_Baron_Lyndhurst" title="John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst">Lyndhurst</a></li> <li><i>In Commission: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Pepys,_1st_Earl_of_Cottenham" title="Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham">Pepys</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lancelot_Shadwell" title="Lancelot Shadwell">Shadwell</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_Bosanquet" title="John Bosanquet">Bosanquet</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pepys,_1st_Earl_of_Cottenham" title="Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham">Cottenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Copley,_1st_Baron_Lyndhurst" title="John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst">Lyndhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pepys,_1st_Earl_of_Cottenham" title="Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham">Cottenham</a></li> <li><i>In Commission: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bickersteth,_1st_Baron_Langdale" title="Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale">Langdale</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lancelot_Shadwell" title="Lancelot Shadwell">Shadwell</a>/<a href="/wiki/Robert_Rolfe,_1st_Baron_Cranworth" title="Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth">Role</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wilde,_1st_Baron_Truro" title="Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro">Truro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Sugden,_1st_Baron_St_Leonards" title="Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards">St Leonards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rolfe,_1st_Baron_Cranworth" title="Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth">Cranworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Thesiger,_1st_Baron_Chelmsford" title="Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford">Chelmsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Campbell" title="John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bethell,_1st_Baron_Westbury" title="Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury">Westbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rolfe,_1st_Baron_Cranworth" title="Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth">Cranworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Thesiger,_1st_Baron_Chelmsford" title="Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford">Chelmsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Cairns,_1st_Earl_Cairns" title="Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns">Cairns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wood,_1st_Baron_Hatherley" title="William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley">Hatherley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roundell_Palmer,_1st_Earl_of_Selborne" title="Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne">Selborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Cairns,_1st_Earl_Cairns" title="Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns">Cairns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roundell_Palmer,_1st_Earl_of_Selborne" title="Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne">Selborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardinge_Giffard,_1st_Earl_of_Halsbury" title="Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury">Halsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farrer_Herschell,_1st_Baron_Herschell" title="Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell">Herschell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardinge_Giffard,_1st_Earl_of_Halsbury" title="Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury">Halsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farrer_Herschell,_1st_Baron_Herschell" title="Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell">Herschell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardinge_Giffard,_1st_Earl_of_Halsbury" title="Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury">Halsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Reid,_1st_Earl_Loreburn" title="Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn">Loreburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Haldane,_1st_Viscount_Haldane" title="Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane">Haldane</a></li> <li><a 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