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Hon. Richard Harcourt, M.P.P.
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22nd, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
Hon. Richard Harcourt, M.A., K.C. was born in the Township of Seneca, in the county of Haldimand, March 17th, 1849. His father, the late Michael Harcourt, represented that county in the Canadian Parliament for two terms. Upon leaving the public school, in the village of York, he studied for a time at the Cayuga High School. Subsequently he was principal first of the same Public and later of the same High School. He was carefully prepared for the university by the Rev. B.C. Hill, who was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. At the university he won prizes year by year, and upon graduating he was awarded a medal in Metaphysics and Ethics. Upon resigning the principalship of the Cayuga High School, he was appointed Inspector of Public Schools of his native county. Afterwards he studied law at Toronto and was called to the Bar in 1876. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1890. He has practised law in Welland for more than twenty years, and is the senior member of the firm Harcourt, Cowper & Macoomb. He is a Liberal in politics, and was first elected to the Legislature in 1878, for the electoral district of Monck. He has represented that constituency continuously ever since. He became a member of the Mowat Administration in September, 1890, and filled the position of Provincial Treasurer until 1899, when he was appointed to his present office viz, that of Minister of Education. He has been for some time a member of the Senate of the University of Toronto, and a trustee of Upper Canada College. At all times he has done everything in his power to advance the interests of Welland.
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