Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt

Not to be confused with Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt.

General The Right Honourable
The Earl Harcourt
PC FRS
Portrait of Harcourt by Robert Hunter
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
In office
29 October 1772 – 7 December 1776
MonarchGeorge III
Preceded byThe Viscount Townshend
Succeeded byThe Earl of Buckinghamshire
Personal details
Born1714
Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England
Died16 September 1777 (aged 63)
Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire

General Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, PC, FRS (1714 – 16 September 1777), known as Viscount Harcourt between 1727 and 1749, was a British Army officer, courtier and diplomat who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772 to 1776.

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