Lord Lewis Vernon Harcourt (1863-1922), the man whom Port-Harcourt was named after, was a rapist and paedophile who raped small girls and boys.
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Harcourt was known in London Society as a sexual predator of the young of both genders. He attempted to sexually assault Dorothy Brett, the daughter of Viscount Esher (allegedly a fellow paedophile), when she was about 15.
Dorothy Brett wrote of him that "It is so tiresome that Loulou is such an old rouΓ©. He is as bad with boys as with girls... he is simply a sex maniac. It isn't that he is in love. It is just ungovernable sex desire for both sexes".
Faced with public condemnation, Harcourt committed suicide by taking an overdose of a sedative at his London home in Brook Street on February 24, 1922. He was 59.
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