Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt

The Right Honourable The Viscount Harcourt PC
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
In office 19 October 1710 – 7 April 1713
Monarch	Anne
Preceded by	In Commission
Succeeded by	himself as Lord High Chancellor
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office 7 April 1713 – 21 September 1714
Monarchs	Anne George I
Preceded by	himself as Lord Keeper
Succeeded by	The Lord Cowper
Personal details
Born	c. 1661
Died	29 July 1727
Nationality	English
Political party	Tory
Education	Pembroke College, Oxford

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 was her solicitor-general and her commissioner for arranging the union with Scotland. He took part in the negotiations preceding the Peace of Utrecht.