The son of Bishop Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt and Lady Anne Leveson-Gower; he was educated at Westminster School and was MP for Lichfield (1806-31) and Oxfordshire (1831-61). Sydney Smith described him as “a very clever young man.”

REFERENCES TO George Granville Vernon- Harcourt:

Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 6 December 1811 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)