William Vernon Harcourt

Rev. William Venables-Vernon Harcourt (1789April 1871) was an English cleric, founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, canon residentiary of the York Cathedral, and later rector of Bolton Percy.

Family He was born at Sudbury, Derbyshire, a younger son of Edward Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York He was elected to honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1894.

The first meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held at York in September 1831, and the general plan of its proceedings, and the laws to govern it, were drawn up by Harcourt,

Works Letter to Henry Lord Brougham, F.R.S. &c., Containing Remarks on Certain Statements in his Lives of Black, Watt and Cavendish (1846) Symmetrical psalmody; or, Portions of the Psalms and other Scriptures, tr. into metrical stanzas, with corresponding accents in corresponding verses, for Musical Use (1855); G. Bell. Sermons, with an introductory preface by W. F. Hook (1873); London, Simpkin, Marschall, and Co.