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28-513: Lord Vernon was married three times. He married, thirdly, Martha Harcourt, granddaughter of Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt . As a prominent son and forefather of the present title-holder, their second son was Edward Harcourt , Archbishop of York who succeeded to the Harcourt family estates on the death of his cousin the William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt and so assumed by Royal Licence

56-449: A break at the time of the revolution, from October 1689 to April 1711. At the 1690 English general election , he was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Abingdon . In 1701 he was nominated by the Commons to conduct the impeachment of Lord Somers . In 1702 he became solicitor-general and was knighted by Queen Anne . In the same year he became bencher and treasurer of his Inn and

84-456: A small barn. Traditional houses and cottages in Shilton are built of local Cotswold stone. Shilton House was built in 1678 and is a Grade II* listed building. Elm Farm dates from 1683. Shilton Bridge across Shill Brook is a small stone hump-back bridge that was probably built in the 18th century. By the 1930s its stonework had become decayed, it was too narrow for modern traffic and its hump

112-582: Is his son Freddie Vernon-Harcourt (b. 2007) Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt , PC (December 1661 – 29 July 1727) of Stanton Harcourt , Oxfordshire , was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1690 until 1710. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Harcourt in 1711 and sat in the House of Lords, becoming Queen Anne 's Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain . He

140-665: The River Thames downstream from Radcot . Shilton was historically part of the manor of Great Faringdon , and most of Shilton parish was an exclave of Berkshire until the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 transferred it to Oxfordshire. When the Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire was founded in 1203–04, it was endowed with a group of manors that were headed by Great Faringdon and included Shilton. Beaulieu retained

168-824: The Harcourt Papers. His portrait was painted by Kneller ; it was once at Nuneham House. Harcourt married first at St Marylebone on 18 October 1680 Rebecca Clarke (buried at Chipping Norton , Oxfordshire, 16 May 1687), daughter of the Rev. Thomas Clarke, his father's chaplain , by whom he had five children; secondly Elizabeth Spencer (c. 1657 – Downing Street , 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 Thomas Vernon , of Twickenham Park . He left children by his first wife only: He died at 2am at Harcourt House , Cavendish Square , and

196-562: The Sudbury Hall estate. None of the Lords Vernon are among the excepted hereditary peers and none have achieved any votes in by-elections. For other branches of the family, see Vernon family . The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Hon. Simon Anthony Vernon-Harcourt (b. 1969). The heir apparent's heir presumptive is his younger brother, Hon. Edward William Vernon-Harcourt (b. 1973) The heir apparent's heir presumptive's heir

224-527: The allegations of the Whigs that Harcourt entered into treasonable relations with the Pretender . On the accession of George I however, he was deprived of office and retired to Cokethorpe, where he enjoyed the society of men of letters, Swift , Pope , Prior 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

252-572: The bar of the House of Lords 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

280-420: The barn at Shilton. However, in 1971 an historian, PL Heyworth, reported that the stone walls of the barn and a few of its timbers still survived. Heyworth found a farm in the village had a stone-walled barn that had a modern arched corrugated steel roof, but had some stone corbels that would formerly have carried principal rafters of a former gabled roof. Heyworth found that the lintels of two large doorways in

308-547: The barn is very likely to be the remains of a Cistercian barn. The dovecote is cylindrical and has a conical roof. It is early 16th century and is a Grade II* listed building . The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of the Holy Rood are the Norman nave , south aisle and arcade , all of which were built in about 1150. The present Early English Gothic chancel

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336-465: The barn were re-used timbers that had been principal posts. Each had the mortices that would have held a tie beam and a strut, both of which would have been parts of a timber roof. The barn is near a house called the Old Manor, a medieval dovecote, a possible former medieval fishpond and a field called Conyger ( i.e. it had been a place for rearing "coneys" – rabbits). Heyworth therefore concluded that

364-519: The great-great-grandson of Admiral Frederick Edward Vernon-Harcourt, fourth son of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York. The ancestral family seat of the Barons Vernon is Sudbury Hall , near Uttoxeter , Derbyshire, which was given to the National Trust in 1967 in lieu of death duties after the death of the 9th Baron Vernon. The family of the late 10th Baron still keeps a residence in the grounds of

392-515: The manor at Great Coxwell , 9 miles (14 km) south of Shilton. Great Coxwell Barn , which was built for the Abbey around 1292, survives intact and is open to the public. It is somewhat larger and structurally more complex than the barn that Waller found at Shilton, but it gives an idea of the scale, style and quality of building that the Cistercians commissioned. Tradition had it that a fire destroyed

420-455: The manor of Cogges from the heirs of Sir Francis Blake . Harcourt enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator; Speaker Onslow 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

448-615: The manors until 1538, when it surrendered all its properties to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries . In about 1848 the architect and antiquarian Frederick S. Waller drew a plan and sections of an aisled barn at Shilton. It had six bays and an internal timber frame built on two rows of five large timber posts, This seems likely to have been a medieval barn, built when Beaulieu Abbey held Shilton Manor. Beaulieu Abbey also held

476-496: The seventh Baron, served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) in the last Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone . On the death in 2000 of his grandson, the tenth Baron, this line of the family failed. The late Baron was succeeded by his distant relative (his fifth cousin once removed), the eleventh and present holder of the title. He is

504-462: The sobriquet of "Trimming Harcourt." He exerted himself to defeat the impeachment of Lord Oxford in 1717, and in 1723 he was active in obtaining a pardon for another old political friend, Lord Bolingbroke . 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. In 1726, he acquired

532-494: The surname of Harcourt, with his children known as Vernon-Harcourt. Edward was George's third son. Lord Vernon was succeeded by his son from his first marriage to the Hon. Mary Howard and the second Lord Vernon, as Hon. George Venables-Vernon before his accession sat as a Member of Parliament for Weobly , Bramber and Glamorganshire in turn and was appointed as a senior Liberal whip in the House of Lords. His half-brother succeeded,

560-431: The third Baron, the eldest son of Martha Harcourt. His son, the fourth Baron, married Frances Maria Warren, daughter of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet . His son, the fifth Baron, represented Derbyshire and Derbyshire South in the House of Commons. He assumed in 1837 by sign manual the surname of Warren only for himself and subsequent issue, but this appears to have been repudiated by his son. His grandson,

588-547: The time also had a bell-foundry in Oxford . Currently for technical reasons they are unringable. Holy Rood also has a Sanctus bell that Henry III Bagley cast in 1730. Bagley was from Chacombe , Northamptonshire but also had a foundry at Witney . Holy Rood parish is now part of the Benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire. Shilton has a Baptist chapel that was built in the early or mid 19th century. It may have been converted from

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616-480: Was admitted at Inner Temple in 1676. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford , on 30 March 1677, aged 15, and was awarded BA in 1679. In 1683, he was Called to the Bar . 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. Harcourt was recorder of Abingdon from June to December 1687 and, after

644-427: Was awarded DCL at Oxford University. At the 1705 English general election , he was returned as MP for Bossiney , and as commissioner for arranging the union with Scotland which he was largely instrumental in promoting. Harcourt was appointed attorney-general in 1707, but resigned office in the following year when his friend Robert Harley , afterwards Earl of Oxford, was dismissed. Harcourt defended Sacheverell at

672-445: Was built in about 1250. The bell tower was added in the 15th century. The present side windows of the nave and aisle are also late Medieval Perpendicular Gothic additions. The Gothic Revival architect C.C. Rolfe restored the building in 1884–88, adding the present rood screen. The church is a Grade II* listed building. Holy Rood church tower has three bells, all cast in 1854 by W. & J. Taylor of Loughborough , who at

700-562: Was her solicitor-general and her commissioner for arranging the union with Scotland. He took part in the negotiations preceding the Peace of Utrecht . Harcourt was born in December 1661 at Stanton Harcourt , Oxfordshire, to Stanton Harcourt, the only son of Sir Philip Harcourt, and his first wife Anne Waller, daughter of Sir William Waller of Osterley Park , Middlesex. He was educated at a school at Shilton, Oxfordshire , under Samuel Birch, to 1677 and

728-453: Was interred at Stanton Harcourt 4 August. Shilton, Oxfordshire Shilton is a village and civil parish about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Carterton, Oxfordshire . The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 626. Shilton village is on Shill Brook: a stream that rises southwest of Burford , flows through Shilton and Alvescot to Black Bourton , where it becomes Black Bourton Brook, which joins

756-477: Was not till April 1713 that he received the appointment of Lord Chancellor. In 1710 he had purchased the Nuneham Courtenay estate in Oxfordshire, but his usual place of residence continued to be at Cokethorpe near Stanton Harcourt, where he once received a state visit from Queen Anne . In the negotiations preceding the Peace of Utrecht , Harcourt took an important part. There is no sufficient evidence for

784-401: Was too acute for some vehicles. In 1938 Oxfordshire County Council rebuilt the bridge, making the road across it wider and reducing the hump. The sides of the bridge were rebuilt using the original stones in their original relative positions as far as possible, while the widening of the bridge was achieved by inserting a concrete section in the middle of the road hidden from view. Shilton has

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