in October 1779. He bought St Leonard's Hill in Clewer from the Duke of Gloucester in 1781 and, having been promoted to major-general on 20 November 1782, he was then appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Promoted to lieutenant-general on 18 October 1793, Harcourt commanded the British Cavalry at the Battle of Willems in May 1794 during the Flanders Campaign. Appointed Governor of Fort William on 21 March 1794, he succeeded the Duke of York as commander during the Flanders Campaign and oversaw the British retreat and their final evacuation from Bremen in Spring 1795. On his return he was appointed Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull. Harcourt was promoted to full general on 1 January 1798 and he became the first Governor of the Royal Military College at Great Marlow in June 1801. Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire in November 1801, he succeeded his elder brother, George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt, to the earldom in April 1809 and was appointed Governor of Portsmouth in July 1811. Appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 20 May 1820 and promoted to field marshal on 17 July 1821, Harcourt bore the Union standard at the coronation of George IV on 19 July 1821. He went on to become Governor of Plymouth in 1827. Harcourt died at St Leonard's Hill on 17 June 1830 and was buried at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire. The estates passed to a cousin, Edward Vernon, who was Archbishop of York; on inheriting the estates Vernon changed his name to Harcourt. Statues of Lord Harcourt were commissioned from Robert William Sievier and erected at St Michael's Church in Stanton Harcourt and in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Family On 3 September 1778 Harcourt married Mary, widow of Thomas Lockhart of Craig House in Scotland, and daughter of the Rev. W. Danby of Farnley in North Yorkshire; they had no children. References Sources External links 1743 births 1830 deaths Military personnel from Oxfordshire Burials in Oxfordshire British field marshals Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain Equerries Governors of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies People from Windsor, Berkshire William 16th The Queen's Lancers officers British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War British MPs 1768–1774 Younger sons of earls