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The first-created component of what would eventually become Harcourt was the World Book Company (unrelated to the Chicago-based World Book, Inc. publisher of reference works), which opened its first office in Manila in 1905 and published English-language educational materials for schools in the Philippines.
In 1905, John Bateman Harcourt’s sons Stanton and Gordon joined the company. In 1929, Gordon founded his own company, Gordon Harcourt Ltd, while Stanton headed Harcourt & Co. After Stanton's retirement in the 1950s, Hec Fisher headed the company. In 1980 Harcourt & Co expanded into Auckland and announced listing on the Stock Exchange. [5]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (/ ˈ h oʊ t ən / HOH-tən; [9] HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works. The company is based in the Boston Financial District .
The House of Harcourt is a Norman family, and named after its seigneurie of Harcourt in Normandy.Its mottos were "Gesta verbis praeveniant" (Olonde branch), "Gesta verbis praevenient" (Beuvron branch), and "Le bon temps viendra ... de France" (English branch).
Viscount Harcourt, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom; House of Harcourt, a British and French noble house; Collège d'Harcourt, in Paris, renamed the Lycée Saint-Louis in 1820
Harcourt is a town in the Central Highlands of the state of Victoria, Australia. It is about 8 kilometres (5 miles) north-east of Castlemaine , where the Midland Highway meets the Calder Highway . At the 2021 census , Harcourt had a population of 1,038. [ 2 ]
Harcourt is a surname. The surname Harcourt originated according to the geographical location, after the town of the same name in Normandy . This surname is 88,694th most common surname in the world, and it is held by approximately 1 in 1,346,056 people in the world, most in America.
Harcourt was born at Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, the only surviving son of politician Sir William Vernon Harcourt and his first wife, Maria Theresa Lister. He was originally christened with the name Reginald, in honour of his father's university friend Reginald Cholmondeley, but when George Cornewall Lewis died just over two months after, he was rechristened with the name Lewis. [1]