Georgiana Harcourt

Infobox Person
name = Georgiana Harcourt


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caption = "a distinguished female" [http://books.google.com/books?id=MPoGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=letters+%22georgiana+harcourt%22 The portrait gallery of distinguished females: Including Beauties of the courts of King George IV and William IV By John Burke, 1833] ]
birth_name = Georgiana Charlotte Frances Harcourt
birth_date = 1807
birth_place = Dalston, Cumberland, England
death_date = death date and age|1886|10|29|1807|01|01
death_place = Sloane Street, Chelsea, London, England
education =
occupation = correspondent and translator
spouse = Major General George Alexander Malcolm C.B.
parents = Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt and his wife Anne nee Leveson-Gower
children = none

Georgiana Charlotte Frances Harcourt (1807 IGI: Baptism: 27 JUL 1807 Georgiana Charlotte Frances Harcourt at Parish Church, Dalston, Cumberland, England to Edward Harcourt and Anne Leveson-Gower] - 29 October 1886 [Burkes Peerage] ) was the daughter of the Archbishop of York. Her correspondence has been published, but she is primarily known for the novels of Gustav Freytag and the theological works she translated from German originals. Her husband, General Malcolm had a distinguished career in the British army.

Biography

Harcourt was born shortly before her baptism on 27 July 1807 in Dalston, Cumberland . She was the youngest daughter of 16 children of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, the incumbent Bishop of Carlisle, and his wife Anne née Leveson-Gower. She would later live at Bishopthorpe Palace, the official residence of the Archbishop of York.

In 12 September 1835 when Princess Victoria visited Harewood House in Yorkshire with her mother, the Duchess of Kent she attended the local church service. Georgiana's father preached the sermon at the local church and many local dignitaries attended from Leeds and the surrounding area. On entering the church it was Henry Lascelles, the 4th Earl of Harewood who accompanied the Duchess of Kent, but the princess, and future Queen, was accompanied by Georgiana. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=-hgHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=georgiana+harcourt+victoria&source=web&ots=_nhym4TfeQ&sig=BJJPU4lPIVH9Sjh-h_uGk0Topp0#PPA77,M1 The Annals of Yorkshire from the Earliest Period to the Present Time By Henry Schroder] accessed 11 December 2007]

Harcourt corresponded with Wellington the Prime Minister [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w-fl49UBmgEC&dq=%22Georgiana+Harcourt%22&ei=MaVeR-rGEYKkiQGB2PynCg&ie=ISO-8859-1 The Prime Ministers' Papers, 1801-1902: A Survey of the Privately Preserved ... By John Brooke, 1968, HMSO] accessed 11 December 2007] between 1838 and 1849 (before and after her 1845 marriage) and with Sydney Smith within two years of his death. She was amongst the "most favoured of his fair correspondents" [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1vbii31mPK0C&pg=PA54&dq=%22Georgiana+Harcourt%22&ei=rrBeR5XuKJ3stAPfmJHoCg&ie=ISO-8859-1 Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and ... by Abraham Hayward] accessed 11 December 2007] . Sydney had been a clergyman under her father the Archbishop. He writes to her in a carefree style:

"What a charming existence! To live in the midst of holy people; to know that nothing profane can approach you; to be certain that a Dissenter can no more more be found in the palace, than a snake in Ireland, or ripe fruit in Scotland. To have your society strong and undiluted by the laity to bid adieu to human learning; to feast on the Canons and to revel in the Thirty nine articles! Happy Georgiana!" [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vQ8jl-qp80AC&pg=PA83&dq=%22Georgiana+Harcourt%22&ei=MaVeR-rGEYKkiQGB2PynCg&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=2wTOGyo6DzQT9X9w5iRZn5ekRRg#PPA83,M1 Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 By George Saintsbury, 1972] Accessed 11 December 2007]

Family

She married on 4 December 1845 at Bishopthorpe, York [GRO Register of Marriages: DEC 1845 XXIII 745 YORK - George Alexander Malcolm = Georgiana Charlotte Frances Vernon Harcourt] to Major General George Alexander Malcolm C.B. son of General Sir John Malcolm [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BSkAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA649&dq=Edward+Harcourt+Archbishop+Georgiana+malcolm&ei=osJeR6ecC5nKiQG8vbmFDA&ie=ISO-8859-1 A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain ...By Bernard Burke] ] and Isabella Charlotte nee Campbell.

Georgiana's husband had been given £500, made Lieutenant-Colonel and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1842 after bringing the Treaty of Nanking back to England. [http://www.midley.co.uk/Nanking/NANKING_JICH.htm Treaty of Nanking at Midley.co.uk] accessed 11 December 2007] He was also given monies to cover his travelling expenses from China and a larger sum to cover his expenses on his return.

Georgiana died 29 October 1886 at their home in Sloan Street, Chelsea, London [GRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1886 1a 240 CHELSEA - Georgina Charlotte F Malcolm, aged 79] [GRO 1861 census: Georgina Malcolm, wife of George A. Malcolm, aged 52 (sic - 54?) of 9 Sloane Street, Chelsea - born Dalston Cumberland] [Burkes Peerage]

Her husband led the 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry) from 10 March 1866. [http://www.regiments.org Regiments.org] accessed 11 December 2007] In 1881, General Malcolm was the Colonel of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, second battalion. A post he held until 1890.

Major works

* "Luther's Letters to Women", Martin Luther, 1865, ed. Karl Zimmermann Trans. G. Malcolm ISBN 1430498641 Reprinted 2007
* " Old German Theology a hundred years before the Reformation" With a preface by Martin Luther. Translated from the German by Mrs. Malcolm 1854
*"Pictures of German Life in the xvth, xvith, and xviith centuries ..." Translated from the original by Gustav Freytag and Georgiana Malcolm
*"The Lost Manuscript" Translated by Mrs. Malcolm. Novel by Gustav Freytag (1865)
*"Debit and Credit" Novel by Gustav Freytag translated by Georgiana Malcolm (1857)
*"Our Forefathers" Translated by Mrs. Malcolm Novel by Gustav Freytag (1873)

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