“The Harmonious Cabinet” from “Fun” (1893)

The Harmonious Cabinet

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Fun 57-58 (29 March 1893): 131

Text beneath the title: Harmonious Harcourt. — “As, owing to unforeseen circumstances, ‘Home Sweet Home Rule’ is unavoidably postponed, I will, with your kind indulgence, conclude the first part with a little thing — ahem! — of my own composing.” See below for more on Harcourt

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Harmonious Harcourt is Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904). According to the Encylopædia Britannica, he was a “British lawyer, journalist, politician, and cabinet member in five British Liberal governments, who in 1894 achieved a major reform in death duties, or estate taxation. . . . After resigning as leader of the Liberal opposition in the Commons (1898), he attacked British imperialism in the Transvaal and, later (1903), the protective-tariff proposals of Joseph Chamberlain.”

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