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HARLEY, GEORGE. _b._ 1791; drawing master; exhibited 2 landscapes at
R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1817–65; drew in lithography some
landscape drawings as ‘Lessons in Landscape’ for Rowney and
Forster’s series 1820–22; author of _A guide to landscape drawing
in pencil and chalk_ 1848, _3 ed._ 1849. _d._ 32 Kelly st., St.
Pancras, London 10 Jany. 1871.

HARLEY, JOHN PRITT (_son of John Harley, draper_). _bapt._ St.
Martin-in-the-Fields, London 5 March 1786; apprentice to a linen
draper 1801; acted in Kent and Sussex 1807–13; first appeared in
London at English opera house as Marcelli in _The Devil’s Bridge_
15 July 1815; played the chief parts at Drury Lane 1815–35, 1838,
1841–8, at St. James’ theatre 1835, at Covent Garden 1838, 1840,
at Princesses theatre 1850 to death; especially good in
Shakespearean clowns; master and treasurer Drury Lane theatrical
fund 1833 to death; made a collection of 300 walking sticks and
canes. _d._ 14 Upper Gower st. London 22 Aug. 1858. _Illust. sp.
and dr. news 13 Sep. 1879 pp._ 629–30; _Metropolitan Mag. xvii_,
126–32 (1836); _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, i_, 69–77 (1825),
_portrait_; _Planche’s Extravaganzas ii_, 63 (1879), _portrait_.

HARLOWE, SARAH. _b._ London 1765; singer and actor at Sadler’s Wells
1789; first appeared at Covent Garden in _The Fugitive_ 4 Nov.
1790; played at the Haymarket 1792, at Drury Lane 1793, 1816, at
English opera house 1794, at Royalty theatre 1797, retired 1826; a
low comedy actress with a complete knowledge of the stage; her
best parts were Lucy in _The Rivals_ and the Widow Warren in _The
Road to Ruin_. _d._ 5 Albert place, Gravesend, Kent 2 Jany. 1852.
_Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. iii_, 235–41 (1825), _portrait_; _Mrs.
C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, i_, 91–3 (1844).

HARMAN, EDWARD ROBERT KING- (_1 son of Hon. Lawrence King-Harman of
Rockingham, Roscommon, d. 10 Oct. 1875_). _b._ 3 April 1838; ed.
at Eton 1847–50; ensign 60 rifles 1855, lieut. 1856 to 59 or 60;
contested Longford co. 16 May 1870, contested Dublin city 18 Aug.
1870; M.P. Sligo co. 12 Jany. 1877 to 24 March 1880, contested
Sligo co., April 1880; M.P. co. Dublin 1883–5, contested co.
Dublin, Dec. 1885; M.P. Isle of Thanet division of Kent 1885 to
death; col. Roscommon militia 14 Aug. 1878 to death; lord lieut.
of Roscommon 1878 to death; P.C. Ireland 1885; parliamentary under
sec. for Ireland 8 April 1887 to death. _d._ Rockingham 10 June
1888. _Times 11 June 1888 p. 9, 15 June p. 5_; _Graphic, xxvii_,
296 (1883), _portrait_.

HARMAR, DAVID JAMES. Standard bearer of the Corps of Gentlemen at
arms 31 Jany. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1872. _d._ 7 the Paragon, Bath 12
Oct. 1874 aged 59.

HARMER, JAMES (_son of a Spitalfields’ weaver, d. 1787_). _b._
London 1777; attorney in London 1798–1833 when he relinquished his
practice worth £4000 a year; common councilman city of London
1826, alderman of ward of Farringdon without 1833–40; sheriff of
London and Middlesex 1834; chief proprietor of the _Weekly
Dispatch_ which in 1835 circulated 32,000 weekly and he made
£15,000 a year; a founder of R. Free hospital, Greville st. 1828;
resided at Ingress Park near Greenhithe which he built chiefly of
the stone removed from old London Bridge; author of _Murder of Mr.
Steele: documents to show innocence of J. Holloway_ 1807; _Account
of case of G. Mathews who was convicted and pardoned_ 1819; _The
case of Edward Harris who was executed, facts to prove his
innocence_ 1825. _d._ at Adam Steele’s house, Cricklewood,
Middlesex 11 June 1853. _G.M. xl_, 201 (1853); _I.L.N. xxii_, 507
(1853); _Grant’s Newspaper press, iii_, 41–42 (1872).

NOTE.—In 1840 he was the senior alderman below the chair, but
was not elected Lord Mayor in consequence of his connexion
with the _Weekly Dispatch_ which then advocated advanced
religious and political views.

HARNESS, SIR HENRY DRURY (_son of John Harness, M.D., comr. of
transport board_). _b._ 29 April 1804; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 May 1827;
instructor in fortification at Woolwich 1834–40 and professor of
fortification 1844–5; instructor in surveying at Chatham 1840–44;
inspector of Welsh roads 1845; sec. to railway commission 1846;
deputy master of the mint 1850–52 when he entirely reformed the
working arrangements; commissioner of public works in Ireland
1852–4; commanded engineers in India 1857–9, at Cawnpore, siege of
Lucknow and at operations in Rohilkund and Oude; director R.
engineer establishment, Chatham 1860; managed cattle plague
department of privy council 1866; C.B. 26 July 1858, K.C.B. 24 May
1873; col. commandant R.E. 15 June 1877 to death; general 1 Oct.
1877; author of papers in _Papers of Corps of Engineers_ 1844.
_d._ Barton End, Headington, Oxford 10 Feb. 1883, portrait in mess
of R.E. at Chatham. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_, 378
(1883); _Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xliv_, 133–5 (1884); _T. B.
Collinson’s Memoir of Sir H. D. Harness_ (1883), _portrait_.

HARNESS, REV. WILLIAM (_elder bro. of Sir H. D. Harness_). _b._ near
Wickham, Hants. 14 March 1790; ed. at Harrow where in 1802 he made
an acquaintance with Byron which he kept up; at Christ’s coll.
Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816, Boyle lecturer 1822; C. of Hampstead
1823–6; incumb. Regent sq. chapel, London 1826–44; clerical
registrar of privy council 1841; minister of Brompton chapel
1844–7; P.C. of All Saints, Knightsbridge 1849 to death, he raised
the money for building this ch.; editor of _The Works of
Shakespeare 8 vols._ 1825 to which he prefixed a life; author of
_The life of Mary Russell Mitford_ 1870; _killed_ by falling down
stairs at the deanery, Battle, Sussex 11 Nov. 1869. _L’ Estrange’s
Life of Rev. W. Harness_ (1871); _Reg. and Mag. of Biography, Dec.
1869 pp._ 308–9.

HARNETT, A. W. (_second son of Maurice Harnett of Milltown, co.
Dublin_). _b._ about 1817; ed. by his father and at Trin. coll.
Dublin; barrister L.I.; edited a paper in the south of Ireland
some years; edited _The Universal News_ from date of first number
Dec. 1860, the organ of more educated English Roman Catholics.
_d._ St. John’s Wood, London 6 June 1864. _Law Times, xxxix_, 452
(1864).

HARPER, REV. JAMES (_younger son of Rev. Alexander Harper_). _b._
Lanark 23 June 1795; ed. at Edin. univ.; D.D. of Jefferson coll.
U.S. America 1843, D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1877; united secession
minister at North Leith 1819 to death; chairman of the synod 1840;
professor of pastoral theology, secession ch. 1843–8; promoted the
union of the secession and relief bodies 1848; professor of
systematic theology 1848; moderator of united presbyterian synod
1860; president of theological hall of united presbyterian ch.
1876; editor of _Edinburgh Theological Mag._ 1826 and _United
Presbyterian Mag._ 1850. _d._ Leith Mount 13 April 1879. _Andrew
Thomson’s Life of J. Harper_ (1880), _portrait_; _John Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy, 3rd series_ (1851) 338–45.

HARPER, THOMAS. _b._ Worcester 3 May 1787; trumpeter and horn player
in the East India Co. volunteer band 1799, inspector of musical
instruments to the Co. to his death; principal trumpet Drury Lane
and Lyceum opera house 1806; played at Birmingham festival 1820;
trumpet at the Ancient Concerts, the Italian opera and
Philharmonic concerts; his imitation of the voice part in ‘Let the
bright Seraphin’ was a great achievement of art; author of A
selection of favourite airs adapted for the Royal Kent bugle 1830;
seized with illness at Exeter hall and _d._ at the house of his
friend Joseph Surman, 9 Exeter hall, Strand, London 20 Jany. 1853.
_Musical World 29 Jany. 1853 p._ 83; _W. W. Cazalet’s Royal
academy of music_ (1854) 294; _Dramatic and musical review, iii_,
200 (1844).

HARPER, WILLIAM. _b._ Manchester 1806; yarn merchant Pall Mall,
Manchester; wrote the weekly trade article for the _Manchester
Courier_; author of _The Genius and other poems_ 1840; _Cain and
Abel, a dramatic poem, and minor pieces Manchester_ 1844; _Memoir
of Benjamin Braidley_ 1848. _d._ Lever st. Lower Broughton,
Manchester 30 Jany. 1857. _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1876)
113–8; _R. W. Procter’s Literary reminiscences_ (1860) 121–5; _The
Manchester Quarterly, July 1889 pp._ 248–53.

HARPUR, CHARLES. _b._ Windsor, New South Wales 1811; gold
commissioner Araluen 1858–66; unsuccessful as an agriculturalist;
author of _The Bushrangers, a play in 5 acts_, _Sydney_ 1853; _The
Tower of the Dream, Sydney_ 1865. _d._ Eurobodalla, N.S.W. 10 June
1868. _G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (_Sydney_) (1866)
38–48.

HARRADEN, RICHARD BANKES (_son of Richard Harraden 1756–1838,
engraver_). _b._ 1778; member of Soc. of British Artists 1824–49;
exhibited 2 landscapes at B.I. and 21 at Suffolk St. 1823–30; made
drawings for Costumes of the various orders in the university,
Cambridge 1803, Cantabrigia Depicta. Cambridge 1809, History of
university of Cambridge 1814, Illustrations of the university of
Cambridge 1830, Views of all the colleges 1830. _d._ 18 Regent st.
Cambridge 17 Nov. 1862. _R. Willis’ Architectural Hist. of
Cambridge_ (1886) _i, pp. cxv-xviii_.

HARRAL, THOMAS. Edited _Suffolk Chronicle and Bury Gazette_; author
of _A monody on death of John Palmer with observations on London
stage_ 1798; _Ann Boleyn and Caroline of Brunswick compared_ 1820;
_Henry the eighth and George the fourth_ 1820; _The apotheosis of
Pitt, a masque_. _Bury_ 1822; _Picturesque views of the Severn_
1824. _d._ Dorset st. Portman sq. London 31 Jany. 1853 at advanced
age.

HARRILD, ROBERT. _b._ Bermondsey, London 1 Jany. 1780; printer;
manufacturer of printers’ materials and a printers’ engineer 1809;
invented the composition balls and rollers for inking type 1810,
soon universally adopted as the means of rapid printing; preserved
the printing press on which Benjamin Franklin had worked in
London, it is now in patent office, Washington. _d._ Round hill
villa, Sydenham, Kent 28 July 1853. _Bigmore and Wyman’s Bibl. of
printing, i_, 206, 232, 234, 306.

HARRINGTON, CHARLES STANHOPE, 4 Earl of (_eld. son of 3 Earl of
Harrington 1753–1829_). _b._ 8 April 1780; styled Lord Petersham
1780–1829; ensign Coldstream guards 2 Dec. 1795; major Queen’s
Rangers 12 Feb. 1803; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 25 June
1807 to 13 Aug. 1812 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 4 June
1814; a lord of the bedchamber 1812–29; succeeded as 4 Earl 5 Sep.
1829. _d._ Brighton 3 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_, 547 (1851); _I.L.N.
xviii_, 200 (1851).

NOTE.—As Lord Petersham he was a distinguished leader of
fashion, and originated a vestment which long retained his
name the Petersham great coat. He also wore hats of a peculiar
shape. When young cut out his own clothes, made his own
blacking. Lord Petersham’s mixture was a favourite snuff. _H.
Melton’s Hints on Hats_ (1865) _p._ 39; _J. Timb’s English
Eccentrics, i_, 56–7 (1866); _J. Ashton’s Social England, ii_,
308–9 (1890), _2 portraits_.

HARRINGTON, MARIA STANHOPE, Countess of (_dau. of Samuel T. Foote,
theatrical manager, Plymouth and Exeter_). _b._ Plymouth 24 July
1797; appeared as Juliet at Plymouth theatre July 1810, at Covent
Garden as Amanthis in _The Child of Nature_ 26 May 1814 at which
house she acted every season till 1825; first appeared at Drury
Lane as Letitia Hardy in _The Belle’s Stratagem_ 9 March 1826;
performed throughout the United Kingdom and in Paris; had 2
children by Colonel Berkeley 1815 etc.; obtained £3000 damages
from “Pea-Green” Hayne for breach of promise 22 Dec. 1824; retired
from the stage at Birmingham 11 March 1831. (_m._ 7 April 1831 the
preceding). _d._ 2 Richmond terrace, Whitehall, London 27 Dec.
1867. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, i_, 208–41 (1844),
_portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. i_, 33–46 (1825),
_portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor, vi_, 3–6 (1815), _portrait_.

HARRINGTON, LEICESTER FITZGERALD CHARLES STANHOPE, 5 Earl of
(_brother of 4 Earl of Harrington 1780–1851_). _b._ Dublin
barracks 2 Sep. 1784; cornet 1 life guards 25 Sep. 1799; major 47
foot 4 July 1816 to 26 June 1823 when placed on h.p.; served in
Mahratta war 1817–18; col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837; C.B. 14 Oct.
1818; co-operated with Lord Byron and others in assisting the
Greeks against the Turks 1823; knt. of Greek order of the Redeemer
30 April 1838. _d._ Harrington house, Kensington palace gardens,
London 7 Sep. 1862. _T. Moore’s Life of Byron_ (1847) 585, 601
_etc._; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 234–39.

HARRIOT, DAVID. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 6 Bengal light
cavalry 1849 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ Cheltenham 6 Sep.
1851 aged 68.

HARRIS, GEORGE FRANCIS ROBERT HARRIS, 3 Baron (_eld. child of 2
Baron Harris 1782–1845_). _b._ Belmont, Faversham, Kent 14 Aug.
1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1863; lieut.
governor of Trinidad 5 May 1846, governor and commander in chief
there 3 Nov. 1846; governor of Madras, Feb. 1854 to Jany. 1859;
lord in waiting to the Queen 1860–63; chamberlain to Princess of
Wales, March 1863; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866.
_d._ Belmont 23 Nov. 1872.

HARRIS, AUGUSTUS, stage name of Augustus Glossop (_son of Joseph
Glossop who built the Coburg theatre, London 1817 and d. Jany.
1835, by Madame Feron, vocalist who d. 7 May 1853_). _b._ Portici,
Naples 12 June 1825; light comedian at Bower saloon, Stangate,
London; played at Princess’s theatre 1843, managed the Princess’s
24 Sep. 1859 to 16 Oct. 1862; stage manager of Royal Italian
Opera, Covent Garden 1846 to death; stage director of royal opera,
St. Petersburgh, held same post at Madrid, Paris, Berlin and
Barcelona; lessee of Covent Garden during pantomime seasons of
1869–73. (_m._ 17 Feb. 1846 Maria Ann Bone, columbine at
Princess’s theatre); wrote _The Avalanche, a drama_ 1854; _The
little treasure, a comedy_ 1855 and 11 other pieces; with E.
Falconer _The Rose of Castile, an opera_ 1857; _Satanella, an
opera_ 1858. _d._ 2 Bedford place, Holborn, London 19 April 1873.
_The Mask_ (1868) 97, _portrait_; _Entertainment Gazette 15 Jany.
1887 p._ 8; _Era 27 April 1873 p._ 4.

HARRIS, CHARLES. _b._ 19 Oct. 1817; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep.
1835, major 1860–62; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 1866–77; L.G.
18 May 1881. _d._ 55 Sutherland gardens, Harrow road, London 1
March 1889.

HARRIS, RIGHT REV. CHARLES AMYAND (_3 son of 2 Earl of Malmesbury
1778–1841_). _b._ Christchurch, Hants. 4 Aug. 1813; ed. at Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; fellow of All Souls’ coll.
1835–37; student at I.T. 1834; ordained deacon 1836; R. of
Wilton, Wilts. 1840–48; preb. of Salisbury 1841–63; domestic
chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1841–68; P.C. of Rownhams,
Southampton 1856–63; archdeacon of Wilts. 1863–68; V. of
Bremhill-with-Highway, Wilts. 1863–68; bishop of Gibraltar 1868
to Oct. 1873, consecrated in Canterbury cath. 1 May 1868; author
of _One rule and one mind, a sermon_ 1841. _d._ Torquay 16 March
1874. _bur._ Bremhill 19 March.

HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER ARTHUR MOHUN (_1 son of Isaac Donnithorne who
assumed name of Harris, d. 1848_). _b._ Barton Cliffe cottage,
Hants. 14 Jany. 1801; ed. at Eton and at Geneva univ. 1816;
foreign correspondent for _The Press_ at Brussels 1854–6; a
personal friend of Lord Beaconsfield 35 years; assumed name of
Mohun, July 1878; kept hounds at Hayne to 1834; hereditary deputy
ranger of Dartmoor; author of _Letters on the great political
questions of the day, By Ismaël_ 1852. _d._ Cross house, Bishops’
Teignton, South Devon 30 Oct. 1887. _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._
(1890) 319, 1710; _Baily’s Mag. xlviii_, 343–5 (1888).

HARRIS, REV. DAVID. _b._ Fearn 1771; licensed by presbytery of
Dundee 1 Dec. 1802; presbyterian minister Fearn 8 Sep. 1803 to
death; author of _Account of the parish of Fearn_ 18—. _d._
Riverside villa, Blairgowrie 18 Oct. 1867 in 96 year. _H. Scott’s
Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_ (1871) _iii, pt. ii, p._ 832.

HARRIS, EDMUND ROBERT. Solicitor at Preston 1827 to death; left
£285,000 to town of Preston for purposes of public utility, of
this £105,000 was expended on the Harris free public library and
museum and £100,000 on the Harris orphanage Oct. 1883. _d._
Whinfield, Lancs. 27 May 1877 aged 73.

HARRIS, SIR EDWARD ALFRED JOHN (_2 son of 2 Earl of Malmesbury
1778–1841_). _b._ Spring Gardens, London 20 May 1808; midshipman
R.N. 1823, captain 23 Nov. 1841; M.P. for Christchurch 1844–52;
consul general in Chili 1853–8; min. plenipo. at Berne 31 March
1858, envoy extraord. 16 Dec. 1859; envoy extraord. at Amsterdam
22 Aug. 1867 to 19 Nov. 1877 when retired on pension of £1300;
R.A. 12 April 1862, admiral on h.p. 5 Aug. 1875; C.B. 15 June
1863, K.C.B. 13 July 1872. _d._ Sondling park near Hythe, Kent 17
July 1888.

HARRIS, FRANCIS (_son of John Harris of Winchester place, Southwark,
hat maker_). _b._ Winchester place 1 Dec. 1829; ed. at King’s
coll. London and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.B. 1854, M.D.
1859; M.R.C.P. 1857; demonstrator of morbid anatomy St.
Bartholomew’s hospital 1858–61, assistant phys. 1861–74; author of
_On the nature of the substance found in the amyloid degeneration
of various organs of the human body_ 1859. _d._ 24 Cavendish sq.
London 3 Sep. 1885. _bur._ churchyard of Brenchley, Kent. _Gee’s
Memoir of F. Harris_; _St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports_ (1885)
_xxxiii-viii_.

HARRIS, FURLONG ELIZABETH SHIPTON. _b._ 1822; author of _From Oxford
to Rome, and how it fared with some who lately made the journey.
By A Companion Traveller_ 1847, _3 ed._ 1847; _Rest in the church.
By the author of From Oxford to Rome_ 1848; _Via Dolorosa, the
Catholic devotion of the stations. By the author, etc._ 1848. _d._
St. Martin’s st. Wallingford 20 June 1852.

HARRIS, REV. GEORGE (_son of Abraham Harris, Unitarian minister at
Swansea_). _b._ Maidstone, Kent 15 May 1794; matric. at Glasgow
univ. Nov. 1812; a founder of Scottish Unitarian Assoc. July 1813,
sec. 1813–16; minister of Renshaw st. chapel, Liverpool 1817–22;
planned a Unitarian Christian Assoc. 1818; minister of Cloth Hall
chapel, Bolton 1822, of Moor lane chapel, Bolton 1823–25; minister
at Glasgow 1825–41, at Edinburgh 1841–45, of Hanover sq. chapel,
Newcastle 1845 to death; edited _The Christian Pioneer, Glasgow 19
vols._ 1826–45; author of _Unitarianism, the only religion which
can become universal, Liverpool_ 1818; _Christianity and Church of
Irelandism, Glasgow_ 1835, _15 ed._ 1835; _The great business of
life_ 1847 and other books. _d._ Newcastle 24 Dec. 1859.

HARRIS, GEORGE (_eld. son of George Harris of Rugby_). _b._ Rugby 6
May 1809; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 13
Jany. 1843; acting judge Birmingham county court 2 years;
registrar of court of bankruptcy, Manchester 1862–8; the first
suggester of the Historical MSS. commission 1857; V.P.
Anthropological Instit.; president Manchester Anthropological
soc.; F.S.A. 7 Feb. 1861; author of _The life of lord chancellor
Hardwicke_ 1847; _Civilization considered as a science_ 1861; _The
true theory of representation in a state_ 1852; _The theory of the
arts 2 vols._ 1869; _A philosophical treatise on nature and
constitution of man 2 vols._ 1876. _d._ Iselipps manor, Northolt,
Middlesex 15 Nov. 1890. _Times 22 Nov. 1890 p._ 8.

HARRIS, GEORGE FREDERIC (_eld. son of Joseph Harris of Liverpool_).
_b._ 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 3rd in classical tripos and
B.A. 1835; fellow of his coll.; assistant master at Harrow about
1840, lower master 1863 to Dec. 1868, a very popular master. _d._
Mountside, Harrow 7 May 1869 aged 57.

HARRIS, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ 1797; organist St. Lawrence, Jewry,
city of London 1821 to death; chorus master Drury Lane theatre
1836; founder and conductor of London Professional chorus soc.;
under name of Rudolph Nordmann published _The airs from Balfe’s
opera Satanella arranged for pianoforte duets_ 1859; _Two hundred
and fifty chants_ 1862 and 45 other pieces. _d._ 19 Torrington sq.
London 25 Nov. 1867.

HARRIS, REV. JAMES. _b._ London 25 Aug. 1824; employed in a hosier’s
shop; studied theology at Tronchiennes, Namur and Louvain in
Belgium and at St. Beuno’s coll. North Wales 1850–6; ordained
priest 22 Sep. 1861; minister at St. Beuno’s 1861, professor of
ecclesiastical history 1862, of moral theology 1864–5; spiritual
father and prefect of studies at St. Francis Xavier’s coll.
Liverpool 1865, superior of the coll. 1879 to death. _d._ Kentish
Town, London 4 Dec. 1883. _Memoir of Father James Harris, By
Thomas Harper_ (1884).

HARRIS, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of a tailor and draper_). _b._
Ugborough, Devon 8 March 1802; minister of Congregational ch. at
Epsom 1825; prof. of theology in Cheshunt coll. 1837; D.D. Brown
univ. U.S.A. 1838; one of editors of _Biblical Review_ 1846;
principal of and prof. of theology in New coll. St. John’s Wood,
London 1850 to death, college opened 8 Oct. 1851; chairman of
Congregational Union of England and Wales 1852; author of _The
great teacher: characteristics of our Lord’s ministry_ 1835; _The
Pre-Adamite earth_ 1846; _The altar of the household_ 1853, _11
ed._ 1859 and other books. _d._ New college, London 21 Dec. 1856.
_Congregational year book_ (1858) 207–9.

HARRIS, JOHN. _b._ 1791; student royal academy; employed in British
museum 1820; artist, lithographer and copyist; noted for his fac
simile reproductions of wood engravings and block printing to
supply deficiencies in imperfect books; completed missing leaves
for volumes in libraries of Lord Spencer, Thomas Grenville,
British Museum, the Duke of Sussex and others; made the
illustrations for _Dibdin’s Bibliotheca Spenceriana_ 1814 and
_Pettigrew’s Bibliotheca Sussexiana_ 1839. _d._ Croydon 28 Dec.
1873 aged 82. _Cowtan’s British Museum_ (1872) 334–8.

HARRIS, JOHN. _b._ 1807; prompter and stage director theatre royal,
Belfast; manager and then lessee of Queen’s theatre, Dublin
1845–51; lessee of theatre royal, Dublin 26 Dec. 1851 to death;
his second season began 16 Oct. 1852 and ended 15 July 1854, 516
nights the longest season in annals of Irish stage; produced 12 of
Shakespeare’s plays May 1852 to Feb. 1855. (_m._ 184-Miss Julia
Nicholl, well known actress); found drowned at Killiney Strand 13
March 1874. _bur._ from his residence 11 Waterloo road, Dublin, in
Mount Jerome cemet. 19 March. _History of theatre royal_, _Dublin_
(1870) 130–79; _Irish Times 16 March 1874 p. 2_, _17 March p. 2_,
_20 March p. 2_.

HARRIS, JOHN (_1 son of John Harris, miner, d. 23 April 1848_). _b._
Six Chimneys’ cottage, Bolennowe hill, Camborne, Cornwall 14 Oct.
1820; worked in Dolcoath mine 1832–57; scripture reader at
Falmouth 1857 to death; local Wesleyan preacher; had grants from
R. Literary fund 1872, 1875, and from R. Bounty fund 1877, 1881;
author of _Lays from the mine, the moor and the mountain_ 1853, _2
ed._ 1856; _Luda, a lay of the Druids_ 1868; _Tales and other
poems_ 1877; _My autobiography_ 1882, _with portrait_, and other
works; had prize of a gold watch for The Shakespeare tercentenary
prize poem 1864. _d._ Killigrew ter. Falmouth 7 Jany. 1884. _bur._
Treslothan 10 Jany.

HARRIS, JOHN DOVE. _b._ Leicester 1809; mayor of Leicester 1850 and
1856; M.P. for Leicester 1857–59 and 1865–74. _d._ Ratcliff hall,
Ratcliff on Wreake, Leics. 20 Nov. 1878. _I.L.N. xxxiii_, 92, 94
(1858), _portrait_.

HARRIS, JOSEPH. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 3 Bengal N.I.
1846–58; col. 4 European infantry 1859 to death; L.G. 29 Aug.
1859. _d._ Carlton road, Maida vale, London 22 July 1861 aged 81.

HARRIS, JOSEPH JOHN. _b._ London 1799; organist of St. Olave’s ch.
Southwark 1823–28; organist at Blackburn 1828–31; singing master
and assistant organist at Manchester collegiate ch. 1831, organist
of Manchester cathedral 1848 to death; director of the Gentlemen’s
glee club, Manchester; published _A selection of psalm and hymn
tunes_, _Southwark_ 1827; _The cathedral daily service,
Manchester_ 1844; _The musical expression, a guide for parents_
1845. _d._ 242 Brunswick st. Oxford st. Manchester 10 Feb. 1869.

HARRIS, JOSIAH (_son of William Harris_). _b._ Mevagissey, Cornwall
6 May 1821; edited _The Bath Herald_ 1848–52; _The Western
Luminary_, _Exeter_ 1854–5; _The Wolverhampton Journal_ 1855–6;
_The Oxford University Herald_ 1856; author of _The pulpit of
Cornwall, By Ishmael_, 3 _numbers_ 1859; _A tear and a floweret,
Biography of J. W. Etheridge_ 1871. _d._ Portmellon, Mevagissey 5
March 1888.

HARRIS, MATTHEW (_son of Peter Harris, builder, Athlone_). _b._
Roscommon 1826; a working bricklayer and slater; road contractor,
architect, builder, contractor; a Fenian 1865–80; member of Land
and National leagues, his speech about shooting landlords like
partridges had a wide notoriety; M.P. East Galway, Dec. 1885 to
death; by the special commission he was condemned as guilty of
criminal conspiracy 1889. _d._ near Ballinasloe 14 April 1890.
_Pall Mall Gazette 15 April 1890 p._ 6, _portrait_.

HARRIS, RICHARD. _b._ Leicester, Oct. 1777; in R. Phillips’ printing
office Leicester to 1793; served in the army 1797–1802; founded a
manufactory of knitted shawls and fancy hosiery at Leicester 1802,
had various partners and lastly his 2 sons; mayor of Leicester
1844–45; M.P. for Leicester 2 Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852. _d._
Leicester 2 Feb. 1854. _T. Lomas’ Memoir of R. Harris_ (1855).

HARRIS, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Feb. 1764; ed. at Sid. Suss. coll. Cam.,
fellow, 10 wrangler 1786; B.A. 1786, M.A. 1789, B.D. 1797; incumb.
of St. George’s church, Preston, Sep. 1797 to death. _d._ Preston
6 Jany. 1862.

HARRIS, ROBERT (_son of James Harris of Wittersham hall, Kent_).
_b._ 9 July 1809; entered navy 26 Jany. 1822; served in Excellent
gunnery ship Portsmouth 1833–6; served in China 1840–1; captain 17
Oct. 1849; in the Illustrious training ship 1854–7 where he had
charge of Sir J. Graham’s novices; organised and introduced into
the navy, naval cadets and boys’ training ship system 1857–62;
granted good service pension 2 April 1863. _d._ Southsea,
Portsmouth 16 Jany. 1865.

HARRIS, THOMAS. _b._ 15 June 1810; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 6
July 1858. _d._ 1 Nov. 1877.

HARRIS, SIR THOMAS NOEL (_son of Rev. Hamlyn Harris, R. of
Whitewell, Rutland_). _b._ 1785; ensign 87 foot 5 Feb. 1801;
captain 18 light dragoons 27 Aug. 1807, sold out 1808; served in
all Blucher’s actions 1813–14; brought to England first news of
surrender of Paris, April 1814; lost his right arm at Waterloo;
captain 1 dragoon guards 8 Sep. 1815 to 25 March 1816 when placed
on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Canada 22 July 1830 to 14 Sep.
1832; chief magistrate at Gibraltar 1835; one of grooms of H.M.’s
privy chamber to death; K.H. 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace
28 April 1841. _d._ Updown, Eastry, Kent 23 March 1860.

HARRIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; F.G.S. 1839; collected the organic
remains found in the Kent chalk pits, especially the sponges and
fishes; mapped the area of the cretaceous strata about Charing on
the Ordnance map; traced the fossiliferous ironstone near Charing.
_d._ Charing, Kent 13 May 1877 aged 80. _Geol. Mag., Aug. 1877
pp._ 381–82.

HARRIS, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS (_1 son of William Harris_). _b._ Bovey
Tracey 1846; ed. at Blundell’s sch. Tiverton and Ball. coll. Ox.,
scholar 1863–8, B.A. 1867; barrister L.I. 1 May 1871; called to
American bar 1870; F.R.A.S. 11 Feb. 1870, member of Eclipse
expedition to Sicily 1870; author of _Harris’ Mining Laws_ 1877.
_d._ 49 Blessington road, Lee, Lewisham 28 Feb. 1880. _Monthly
Notices of R. Astronom. Soc., Feb. 1881 pp._ 187–8.

HARRIS, WILLIAM CHARLES (_son of John Harris of Clapham, Surrey_).
_b._ 1809; ensign 68 foot 12 June 1830, captain 19 Jany. 1838 to 5
Oct. 1838 when he sold out; chief constable of Hampshire 1843–56;
assist. comr. of Metropolitan police 3 March 1856, retired Nov.
1881 on pension of £533 6s. 8d.; C.B. 12 July 1881; author of _A
manual of drill for county and district constables_ 1862. _d._
Eastdon house, Starcross, Devon 8 March 1887.

HARRIS, SIR WILLIAM SNOW (_only son of Thomas Harris, solicitor_).
_b._ Plymouth 1 April 1791; ed. at Edin. univ.; surgeon in the
militia; practised in Plymouth to 1824; invented method of
arranging lightning conductors in ships 1820 which was employed in
Russian navy, (Czar gave him a ring and vase), not used in English
navy until 1843; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 April 1847, and
had a grant of £5000 in 1854; a founder of the Blue Friars and
known as Brother Bacon clerk 17 May 1829; F.R.S. 2 June 1831,
communicated papers on laws of electricity 1826, 1834, 1836 and
1839, Copley medal 1835, Bakerian lecturer 1839; civil list
pension of £300 for services in cultivation of science 23 July
1841; scientific referee of government in electrical matters 1860;
author of _On utility of fixing lightning conductors on ships_
1830; _On the nature of thunder storms_ 1843; _Rudimentary
treatises on Electricity_ 1848, _Magnetism_ 1852 and _Galvanism_
1856. _d._ 6 Windsor villas, Plymouth 22 Jany. 1867. _Treatise on
Frictional Electricity_ (1867), _memoir by C. Tomlinson_;
_Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 73–74, _portrait_; _Encyclop.
Brit, xi_, 493–4 (1880); _Proc. Royal Soc. xvi_, 18–22 (1868).

HARRISON, ARTHUR AYLETT (_3 son of Rev. Thomas Harrison, P.C. of
Womenswould, Kent_). _b._ 1831; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1853, M.B. 1858; phys. to Church Missionary station, Abbeokuta,
West Africa; author of _Theory of heat_ 1864. _d._ on board the
‘Macgregor Laird’ off Accra, Gold Coast, Africa 12 June 1864 aged
33.

HARRISON, BENJAMIN (_4 son of Benjamin Harrison 1734–97, treasurer
of Guy’s hospital_). _b._ West Ham, Essex 29 July 1771; treasurer
of Guy’s hospital 1797 to death; with Sir Astley Cooper separated
Guy’s from St. Thomas’s 1825; deputy governor of Hudson’s Bay and
South Sea companies; chairman of Exchequer loan board; F.R.S.;
F.S.A. _d._ West side, Clapham common 18 May 1856. _W. J. Cripps’s
Pedigree of family of Harrison, privately printed_ 1881.

HARRISON, VEN. BENJAMIN (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 26 Sep.
1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1828–48; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833;
Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1831, Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar
1832; select preacher at Ox. 1835–7; domestic chaplain to abp. of
Canterbury 1843–8; canon of Canterbury and archdeacon of Maidstone
6 Dec. 1845 to death; F.S.A. 7 Dec. 1854; one of the revisers of
Old Testament 1870–84, published 19 May 1885; author of Nos. 16,
17, 24 and 49 of _Tracts for the Times_ 1841; _An Historical
inquiry into the true interpretation of the rubrics_ 1845;
_Prophetic outlines of the Christian church and the Antichristian
power_ 1849 and 30 addresses, charges, lectures and single
sermons. _d._ 7 Bedford sq. London 25 March 1887. _Proc. of Soc.
of Antiq. xi_, 371 (1887).

HARRISON, SIR EDMUND STEPHEN (_son of Henry Holland Harrison_). _b._
1810; clerk in privy council office 1826, chief clerk 1860–76;
deputy clerk of the council 1860 to death; C.B. 2 April 1875;
knighted at Windsor Castle 21 April 1880. _d._ 114 Harley st.
London 21 Sep. 1882.

HARRISON, SIR GEORGE, _b._ Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 1812;
clothier Edin. in partnership with Samuel Halkett 1839 then with
his sons; sec. to Chamber of commerce 1856–63, chairman 1866–9; a
founder of the Philosophical Institution; chairman Scottish trade
protection soc. 1878–82; town councillor 1875, treasurer of the
city 1879–82, lord provost Nov. 1882 to Nov. 1885; LLD. of Edin.
univ. 1884; knighted at Osborne 11 Aug. 1884; M.P. southern div.
of Edin. Nov. 1885. _d._ 7 Whitehouse ter. Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1885.
_bur._ Warriston cemet. 26 Dec. _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_ (1884)
_ix, xiv-xvii_, _portrait_; _The Scotsman 24 Dec. 1885 pp. 4, 5_,
_28 Dec. p. 5_.

HARRISON, GEORGE HARRISON ROGERS. _b._ 1806; Blue Mantle pursuivant
15 Nov. 1831 to 6 July 1849; Windsor herald 6 July 1849 to death;
F.S.A.; author of _A genealogical account of the Maitland family_
1869. _d._ Windsor house 288 Kennington park road, London 2 March
1880.

HARRISON, GEORGE HENRY DE STRABOLGIE NEVILLE PLANTAGENET- (_only
child of Marley Harrison of Waston, Yorkshire 1772–1822_). _b._ 14
July 1817; general of brigade in Mexican army in Yucatan war 1843;
brigadier general in Peruvian army 1844 and in Monte Video 1845;
marshal general of the army of ‘God and Liberty’ of Corrientes in
the Argentine republic 1845; general of cavalry in Danish army
during Schleswig-Holstein war 1848; lieut. general of the German
Confederation 1848; appointed marshal in Turkish army by the
Sultan 1853; petitioned parliament for summons to parliament by
his title of Duke of Lancaster as heir of the whole blood of Henry
vi. 1858; travelled through nearly all the countries in Europe,
Asia, Africa and America; not allowed access to British Museum
library after 1850 because he claimed to be Duke of Lancaster;
bankrupt 25 Oct. 1861, liabilities £6484, confined in Queen’s
prison, Southwark; worked from 1865 to death in the Public Record
office on the rolls of the queen’s bench and common pleas, making
collections for family history, Rich. i. to Jas. i., left 30 folio
volumes of MSS.; author of _The history of Yorkshire, Wapentake of
Gilling West_ 1879 price 15 guineas, of which he sold but 20
copies, it contains his pedigree and _portrait_; _Petition of
General Plantagenet-Harrison to house of lords touching the duchy
of Lancaster_ 1858. _d._ about 18 July 1890.

HARRISON, JOHN. A life guardsman; one of the Cato st. conspirators
1820, was appointed to fire the King st. cavalry barracks;
transported to Botany Bay 1820; became chief baker at Bathurst,
N.S.W. Australia. _d._ before 1863. _R. Therry’s Reminiscences_
(_2 ed._ 1863) 96–98.

HARRISON, JOHN. _b._ 1808; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1843; house
surgeon Lock hospital; house surgeon St. George’s hospital,
lecturer on surgical anatomy; author of _The pathology of
stricture of the urethra_ 1852, _2 ed._ 1858; _The pathology of
venereal diseases_ 1860. _d._ 2 Albany courtyard, Piccadilly,
London 3 Jany. 1870.

HARRISON, REV. JOHN. _b._ 1815; C. of Burslem 1854–58; C. of
Rotherham 1858–60; C. of Sheffield 1860–63; C. of Pitsmoor,
Sheffield 1863–67; V. of Fenwick near Doncaster 1867 to death;
D.D. Edin. 1870; author of _An answer to Dr. Pusey’s challenge
respecting the doctrine of the real presence 2 vols._ 1871; _The
eastward position unscriptural and not primitive and catholic_
1876 and 5 other books. _d._ Askern near Doncaster 26 Feb. 1883
aged 68.

HARRISON, JOHN GREGSON. L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1829, M.D.
Giessen 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1845; medical officer to L. & N.W.
railway many years, presented with a service of plate value 300
guineas March 1854; medical inspector of factories; surgeon 6
royal Lancashire militia 1 Sep. 1856 to death. _d._ Cheltenham 1
Dec. 1862 aged 56. _I.L.N. 1 April 1854 p. 289, picture of service
of plate._

HARRISON, JOSEPH. Head gardener to Lord Wharncliffe at Worley hall
near Sheffield to 1837; started _The Floricultural Cabinet and
Florists’ Magazine_ 1833, monthly mag., edited it 1833–55; a
florist at Downham, Norfolk 1837, at Kingston, Surrey; edited _The
gardener’s and forester’s record_ 1833; _The garden almanac_ 1842
_etc._; _The gardeners’ and naturalists’ almanac_ 1852; with J.
Paxton _The Horticultural register_ 1831. _d._ about 1858.

HARRISON, MARY (_dau. of Wm. Rossiter of Stockport, Lancs., hat
maker_). _b._ Liverpool 1788; taught painting in Liverpool and
Chester about 1818–29; lived in London 1829 to death; an original
member of New Society of Painters in water-colours 1831; exhibited
20 flower pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st.
1833–63. (_m._ 1814 William Harrison, he was ruined and _d._
1861). she _d._ Chesnut lodge, Hampstead 25 Nov. 1875. _E. C.
Clayton’s English female artists, i_, 411–15 (1876).

HARRISON, REV. MATTHEW (_son of John Harrison of Appleby_). Matric.
from Queen’s coll. Ox. 10 Oct. 1810 aged 18, fellow 1815–33; B.A.
1814, M.A. 1818; R. of Church Oakley, Hants. 1832 to death; author
of _The rise, progress and present structure of the English
language_ 1848, _2 ed. Philadelphia_ 1856. _d._ Church Oakley 1
Jany. 1862.

HARRISON, ROBERT. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. and
M.B. 1824, M.D. 1837; L. and F.R.C.S. Ireland 1816; M. and
F.R.C.S. Eng. 1815; professor of anatomy and physiology Trin.
coll. 1844 to death; surgeon to Dr. Steevens’ hospital and medical
college, Dublin; author of _The Dublin Dissector_ _2 vols. Dublin_
1827; _The surgical anatomy of the arteries of the body 2 vols.
Dublin_ 1824, _4 ed._ 1839. _d._ 1 Hume st. Dublin 23 April 1858.
_Lancet, i_, 135–9 (1827–8); _Medical Directory 1859 p._ 973.

HARRISON, ROBERT ALEXANDER. _b._ Montreal 1833; called to Upper
Canadian bar 1855, the first person called with honours; chief
clerk of crown law department for Upper Canada 1854–59; Q.C. 1867;
member of House of Commons 1867–72; chief justice of province of
Ontario 8 Oct. 1875 to death; author of _A digest of all the cases
in the Queen’s Bench and Practice court for Upper Canada 1823–51_,
_Toronto_ 1852; _The statutes of practical utility_ 1857; _The
common law procedure act 1856_, 1858; _The municipal manual for
Upper Canada_ 1859, _4 ed._ 1879; _The common law procedure act,
Canada_ 1870. _d._ Nov. 1878. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867)
176–7.

HARRISON, SAMUEL (_youngest son of Rev. William Harrison, wesleyan
minister_). _b._ Banwell, Somerset 1826; ed. Woodhouse grove 1834;
apprentice to a printer, Sheffield; shorthand reporter to
_Sheffield Times_ to 1854; introduced type-high stereotype columns
in newspapers; proprietor with Henry Pawson of _Sheffield Times_
1854–7, sole proprietor 1857, editor 1854–69; acquired the
_Sheffield Iris_, the _Sheffield Mercury_ and the _Sheffield
Argus_, all of which were incorporated in the _Times_; author of
_The Last Judgment, a poem in twelve books_ 1857, _new ed._ 1862;
_A complete history of the great flood at Sheffield_ 1864. _d._
Oakvilla, Broombank, Sheffield 21 Feb. 1871. _Sheffield Times 25
Feb. 1871 p._ 8, _4 March p._ 8.

HARRISON, SAMUEL BEALEY (_eld. son of John Harrison of Foxley Grove,
Berkshire_). _b._ Manchester 4 March 1802; special pleader;
barrister M.T. 15 June 1832; settled at Bronte, co. Halton, Canada
as a miller and farmer 1837; called to bar of Upper Canada, Michs.
term 1839, Q.C. 4 Jany. 1845, bencher of the Law society; judge of
county court of county of York; represented Kingston in 1st
parliament of United Canada 1841–43 and Kent in 2nd parliament
1843–45; mem. of executive council of Canada 1841–43; mem. of
board of works 1841–44. _d._ Toronto 23 July 1867.

HARRISON, THOMAS. Educated for an architect; associated with Wm.
Ruff in supplying racing intelligence to London and provincial
papers; on staff of _Bell’s Life in London_ to 1860; on staff of
_The Field_ 1860 to death. _d._ 8 Lodge road, St. John’s Wood,
London 16 July 1882. _The Field 22 July 1882 p._ 134.

HARRISON, THOMAS ELLIOTT (_son of William Harrison, ship builder,
Sunderland_). _b._ North End, Fulham, Middlesex 4 April 1808;
pupil of William Chapman, C.E. to 1829; surveyed part of the line
for London and Birmingham railway 1830 and Stanhope and Tyne
railway 1832, and built the Victoria bridge over the Wear 170 feet
high with arches of 160 feet span 1837–8; engineer with Robert
Stephenson of high level bridge at Newcastle 1849; engineer in
chief of York, Newcastle and Berwick line 1849 to death; designed
and carried out the Jarrow docks at South Shields 1855–9, designed
the Hartlepool docks; built York railway station 1877; M.I.C.E.
1834, pres. 1874. _d._ Newcastle 20 March 1888. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xciv_, 301–13 (1888), _portrait_.

HARRISON, THOMAS RICHARD (_son of James Harrison, printer_). _b._ 3
May 1798; head of firm of Harrison & Sons, printers, St. Martin’s
lane, Charing Cross, London; partner with J. W. Parker; printer to
the Foreign office and printer of _London Gazette_. _d._ 53
Russell sq. London 29 April 1869.

HARRISON, WILLIAM. _b._ Maryport, Cumberland, Oct. 1812; commander
of merchant ships to 1842; connected with Cunard line of packets
1842–55 and crossed the Atlantic 180 times; app. commander of the
Great Eastern Jany. 1856, conducted her from Deptford to Portland
roads Sep. 1859; _drowned_ off Southampton dock gates 21 Jany.
1860. _I.L.N. 6 Nov. 1858_, _portrait_, _4 Feb. 1860_, _portrait_;
_Drawing Room portrait gallery_ (_3 Ser._ 1860), _portrait_.

HARRISON, WILLIAM (_only son of a coal merchant_). _b._ Marylebone,
London 15 June 1813; ed. at Royal Academy of Music 1836–7; first
appeared in London at Covent Garden 2 May 1839 as Henrique in
Rooke’s opera of _Henrique or the Love Pilgrim_; sang at Drury
Lane 1843, the original Thaddeus in Balfe’s _Bohemian girl_ 27
Nov. 1843; played at Princess’s 1849, at Haymarket 1851; toured
through U.S. with Louisa Pyne 1854–57, they opened Lyceum theatre
21 Sep. 1857 and were lessees of Covent Garden 1858 to 19 March
1864, produced 10 new operas; sole manager of Her Majesty’s
theatre 8 Nov. 1864 to 16 March 1865; made his last appearance as
Fritz in _Grand Duchess_ at Liverpool, May 1868; had a tenor voice
of remarkable purity and sweetness; translated Masse’s operetta
_Les noces de Jeannette_ and produced it at Covent Garden as _The
marriage of Georgette_ in 1860. (_m._ 4 March 1839 Ellen dau. of
Wm. Clifford, actor _d._ 156 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 5 Jany.
1889), he _d._ Gaisford st. Kentish town, London 9 Nov. 1868.
_Grove’s Dict. of music, i_, 693 (1879); _Era 15 Nov. 1868 p._ 10;
_Illust. news of the world, viii_ (1861), _portrait_; _Reg. and
Mag. of Biog. i_, 51–3 (1869).

NOTE.—He was the first to endeavour to establish English opera
and in his undertakings lost £20,000. He produced more English
operas than any of his successors have been able or willing to
do.

HARRISON, REV. WILLIAM (_son of James Harrison of London_). _b._
1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of St. Oswald,
Chester 1827 to death; master of King’s sch. Chester; minor canon
of Chester cath. 1839–73; author of _Sermons_ 1859. _d._ St.
Oswald 11 Feb. 1880 aged 83.

HARRISON, REV. WILLIAM (_1 son of William Harrison, doctor,
Bermondsey, Surrey_). _b._ 1811; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., scholar
1829–32, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; R. of Birch, Essex 1848 to death;
hon. canon of St. Albans 1877 to death; chaplain to Duchess of
Cambridge 1879 to death; author of _Sermons on the commandments_
1841; _The tongue of time or language of a church clock_ 1842, _3
ed._ 1844; _Consecrated thoughts_ 1843 and 15 other books. _d._
Birch rectory 1 July 1882.

HARRISON, WILLIAM (_son of Isaac Harrison, hat manufacturer_). _b._
Salford, Lancs. 11 Dec. 1802; lived at the Cape of Good Hope;
settled in the Isle of Man 1845; member of House of Keys, March
1856 to 1867; chief founder of Manx Soc. 1858, edited for it _The
Bibliotheca Monensis_ 1861 and 11 other volumes; contributed to
_Manchester Guardian_. _d._ Rock Mount near Peel 22 Nov. 1884.

HARRISON, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. son of Mary Harrison 1788–1875_).
_b._ Amiens, France March 1815; in New 3 per cent. office, Bank of
England; painter, exhibited marine subjects. _d._ Goodwick,
Pembrokeshire 3 Dec. 1880.

HARRISON, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1827; proper sizar of St. John’s
coll. Cam., 18 wrangler and B.A. 1850; known as Devil Harrison at
Cambridge and by the bar; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1853, bencher 23
Nov. 1877; Q.C. 14 Feb. 1877; had a good many pupils; a commercial
lawyer; author with G. A. Cape of _The Joint stock companies’ act_
1856. _d._ South lodge, Edgware 5 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. 10 March.

HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY. Edited _The Humourist_ 1831; author of _The
Wreath of Beauty with other poems_ 1816; _Montfort, a poem_ 1818;
_Tales of a Physician_ 1829, _2 series_ 1831; _Christmas Tales_
1840; _The Fossil bride and other verses_ 1868. _d._ 19 Beaufort
st. Chelsea 5 March 1878 aged 83.

HARRISON, WILLIAM WATERS (_1 son of Rev. William Harrison of
Chester_). _b._ 1827; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1845–8;
B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; esquire bedel of law 7 Nov. 1848; esquire
bedel of law and divinity May 1857 to death, the last of the old
triumvirate of esquire bedels, the office abolished by the Statute
De Bedellis 22 May 1856. _d._ Sarah Acland home, Oxford 2 March
1891. _G. V. Cox’s Recollections of Oxford_, _2 ed._ (1870) 253,
419–24.

HARROD, HENRY. _b._ Aylsham, Norfolk 30 Sep. 1817; attorney at
Norwich 1838–62, at Marlborough 1862–64; sec. Norfolk and Norwich
Archæol. soc. 12 years; a professional antiquary in London 1864 to
death; F.S.A. 16 March 1854; author of _Gleanings among the
castles and convents of Norfolk. Norwich_ 1857; _Calendar of court
rolls of borough of Colchester_ 1865, and other works on
Colchester and King’s Lynn. _d._ 2 Rectory grove, Clapham, Surrey
24 Jany. 1871. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq., 2nd series, v_, 141–43
(1871).

HARROWBY, DUDLEY RYDER, 2 Earl of. _b._ Army pay office, Whitehall,
London 23 May 1798; known as lord Sandon 1809–47; ed. at Ch. Ch.
Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1848; M.P. Tiverton 1819–31,
M.P. Liverpool 1831–47; sec. to the India board, Dec. 1830 to May
1831; ecclesiastical commissioner 1847–55; succeeded as 2 earl 26
Dec. 1847; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 31 March to 7 Dec.
1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; lord keeper of privy seal 7 Dec. 1855 to
Dec. 1857; K.G. 28 June 1859. _d._ Sandon house, Stone, Staffs. 19
Nov. 1882. _Graphic xxvi_, 605 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_,
560 (1882), _portrait_; _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (_2
ser._ 1846), _portrait_.

HART, ALBAN J. H. _b._ 1798; ed. at Stonyhurst 1817; master Sedgley
park sch.; teacher in a university in U.S. America; resided in St.
Mary’s coll. Oscott to which he presented his library; author of
_The mind and its creations. New York_ 1853; _My own language, or
elements of English grammar_. _Baltimore_ 1860; _The hermit of the
Alps, a poem in four Cantos, and other poems_; _Catholic
psychology, or the philosophy of the human mind_ 1867. _d._
Worcester 13 April 1879 aged 81. _Gillow’s English catholics,
iii_, 152 (1887).

HART, SIR ANDREW SEARLE (_youngest son of Rev. George Vaughan Hart
of Glenalla, Donegal_). _b._ Limerick 14 March 1811; ed. at
Trinity coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1839, LL.B. and LLD. 1840;
fellow of his coll. 1835, senior fellow 1858, vice provost 1876;
member of general synod of Irish ch.; prof. of Real and personal
property, King’s inns, Dublin 4 June 1879; contributed to _Camb.
and Dublin Math. Journal_, _Proc. of Irish Acad._ and _Quart.
journal of mathematics_; knighted at Dublin castle by lord
Carnarvon 25 Jany. 1886; author of _An elementary treatise on
mechanics_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1847; _An elementary treatise on
hydrostatics and hydrodynamics_ 1846, _2 ed._ 1850. _d._ at house
of his brother in law G. V. Hart, Kilderry, co. Donegal 13 April
1890.

HART, CHARLES. _b._ 19 May 1797; ed. at R. Acad. of music; organist
of Essex st. chapel, Strand, London, of St. Dunstan’s, Stepney
1829–33, of Trinity ch. Mile End, and of St. George’s, Beckenham;
composer of _Anthems_ 1830; _The Jubilate and Te Deum_ 1832 which
gained the Gresham gold medal Dec. 1831; _Omnipotence, a sacred
oratorio_, which he conducted on first performance at Hanover sq.
rooms 2 April 1839; _Sacred harmony, tunes from the most
celebrated composers_ 1841. _d._ 148 Bond st. London 29 March
1859. _Grove’s Dict. of music, i_, 692 (1879).

HART, REV. GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1820, M.A. 1823; V. of Arundel, Sussex 1844 to death; chaplain in
ord. to the Queen 14 Dec. 1848 to death. _d._ Arundel 7 April
1873.

HART, SIR HENRY (_son of Richard Hart of Uckfield, Sussex_). _b._
Wilmington, Sussex 1781; entered navy March 1796, captain 1 Aug.
1811; sent on a mission to the Imaum of Muscat 1804; K.C.H. 25
Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1836; comr. of
Greenwich hospital 14 Oct. 1845; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._
Royal hospital, Greenwich 23 Dec. 1856.

HART, HENRY GEORGE (_3 son of lieut. col. William Hart, d. Cape of
Good Hope 1848_). _b._ 7 Sep. 1808; ensign 49 foot 1 April 1829,
major 15 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1854 when placed on h.p.; aided by
his wife brought out the _Quarterly Army list_, Feb. 1839, was
then allowed access to official records, and in 1840 published
_The New Annual Army list_, the Quarterly and Annual lists have
since regularly appeared; poor law inspector Ireland 1845–6; major
depot battalion 21 April 1854 to 1 Dec. 1856 and in 1856
suppressed a mutiny of North Tipperary militia; major on half pay
1 Dec. 1856 to death; L.G. 4 Dec. 1877. _d._ Biarritz, France 24
March 1878.

HART, HENRY WYATT (_eld. son of Rev. Cornelius Hart, V. of Old St.
Pancras, London_). _b._ 1850; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1873; barrister I.T. 25 April 1877; author of _Bankruptcy law
and practice_ 1880, _3 ed._ 1887; with Ernest Eiloart
_Interrogatories. Rules relating to the law of discovery and
inspection_ 1879. _d._ Aden, on his way home from Queensland 20
June 1886.

HART, JOHN. _b._ 1809; engaged in whaling and had a whaling
establishment at Encounter bay, N.S.W. Australia; had flour mills
at Port Adelaide, S. Australia 1846, Hart’s flour commanding the
highest price in the market; M.L.C. South Australia 1857,
treasurer 21 Aug. to 1 Sep. 1857, 30 Sep. 1857 to 12 June 1858 and
15 July 1864 to 22 March 1865, chief secretary 4–15 July 1863, 23
Oct. 1865 to 27 March 1866 and 24 Sep. to 12 Oct. 1868, treasurer
and premier 30 May 1870 to 10 Nov. 1871; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870;
while presiding at meeting of Mercantile marine insurance co. in
Adelaide he essayed to speak and _fell dead_ 28 Jany. 1873.
_Heaton’s Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 87, 153–5.

HART, SOLOMON ALEXANDER (_son of Samuel Hart, gold and silver
worker, mezzotint engraver and teacher of Hebrew_). _b._ Plymouth,
April 1806; student R. Acad. London, Aug. 1823; exhibited 121
pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 34 at Suffolk st. 1826–80; A.R.A.
1835, R.A. 1840, professor of painting 1854–63, librarian of the
institution 1865 to death; curator of painted hall, Greenwich;
elected member of Athenæum 1845; some of his pictures were The
elevation of the Law 1830 in Vernon gallery; Lady Jane Grey at the
place of her execution 1839 in Plymouth guildhall; Milton visiting
Galileo in prison 1847. _d._ 36 Fitzroy sq. London 11 June 1881.
_A. Brodie’s Reminiscences of S. A. Hart_ (1882), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lxxviii_, 621 (1881), _portrait_; _G. Pycroft’s Art in
Devonshire_ (1883) 55–58.

HART, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_only son of Wm. Hart of Dorking,
surgeon_). _b._ Dorking 6 Jany. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’
sch. 1839–49; Andrew’s exh. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1849; Blount
sch. of Trinity coll. 1850; demy of Magdalen coll. 1850–61; B.A.
1853, M.A. 1856; assist. C. of Hawkhurst, Kent 1855 to 1860;
resident chaplain to Soc. of Gray’s Inn, Oct. 1860 to death. _d._
5 Oct. 1861. _bur._ Brighton parochial cemetery. _J. R. Bloxam’s
Register of Magd. coll., vii_, 384–9 (1881).

HARTING, JAMES VINCENT (_1 son of James Harting of Hampstead,
solicitor_). _b._ 1812; ed. at Downside coll. near Bath, and at
London Univ. 1828–30; solicitor 24 Lincoln’s inn fields 1836 to
death; chiefly engaged in connection with Roman Catholic business,
solicitor to Cardinal Newman, defended him in the Achilli case 31
Jany. 1852; gave evidence before parliamentary commission on
convents 1871; F.S.A. 2 June 1864; author of _The holy hour_ 1851.
_d._ 2 Upper Montague st. Russell sq. London 30 Aug. 1883. _The
Tablet lxii_, 382 (1883); _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_,
157–60 (1887).

HARTLAND, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS. _b._ 25 Dec. 1783; one of the best
pantomimists, associated with Grimaldi at Sadler’s Wells theatre
1802; struck on the head by a plank from a scaffold in Mount st.
Westminster road, London 16 Aug. 1852, died on his way to St.
Thomas’ hospital, _bur._ St. Mary Newington ch. yard. _Era 22 Aug.
1852 p._ 12.

HARTLEY, HUMPHREY ROBERT. _b._ 24 Aug. 1794; ensign 57 foot 8 Oct.
1812, lieut. col. 12 April 1831 to 4 Sep. 1835 when placed on
h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; introduced the first savings’ bank in the
British army at Madras 6 Nov. 1832, and libraries for
noncommissioned officers. _d._ 27 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq.
London 7 Aug. 1854.

HARTLEY, JAMES. Large shipowner at Dublin; director of some of
principal steam companies in the United Kingdom; _found dead_ in
his cabin on board the ‘Nubia’ between Ceylon and Suez 11 April
1857.

HARTLEY, JAMES (_son of John Hartley of Harborne, Staffs., d.
1830_). _b._ Dumbarton 1810; partner in Chance, Hartley & Co.
glass makers, Smethwick; first to use sulphate of soda in crown
glass; used a thimble instead of an iron bar in blowing glass; the
first in England to make German sheet-glass; removed to Sunderland
and erected glasshouses 1833; invented Hartley’s patent rolled
plate 1847 used in Great Exhibition building 1851, made from it a
fortune; mayor of Sunderland 1851–3; M.P. Sunderland 1865–8;
A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. _d._ Ashbrooke hall, Sunderland 24 May 1886.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv_, 409–12 (1887).

HARTLEY, JESSE (_son of a bridge master in N.R. Yorkshire_). _b._
near Pontefract 1780; apprentice to a mason; surveyor of the
Liverpool docks 1824 to death, constructed or altered every dock
there 1824–60; completed the Grosvenor bridge over the river Dee
at Chester, which had the largest single span stone arch (200
feet) in existence at the time 1832. _d._ Bootle Marsh near
Liverpool 24 Aug. 1860. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_,
219–22 (1872).

NOTE.—His son John Bernard Hartley who was _b._ 3 Sep. 1814
and _d._ 14 Dec. 1869, was joint surveyor of Liverpool docks
with his father from July 1847.

HARTLEY, LEONARD LAWRIE (_only child of Archibald Campbell, surgeon,
d. Bedale, Yorkshire 1837 by Mary dau. of Leonard Hartley_). _b._
1816; assumed the name of Hartley by r.l. on 15 July 1841 after
death of his uncle George Hartley of Middleton Tyas, Yorks.;
collected a library of 60,000 volumes chiefly on topography, books
sold for £9636 14s. 6d. June 1885. _d._ 138 Marina, St. Leonards
on Sea 27 Dec. 1883, his heir at law advertised for 7 Feb. 1884.
_Times 7 Feb. 1884 p._ 1.

HARTMAN, SIR JULIUS. _b._ 6 May 1774; captain artillery King’s
German Legion 9 Nov. 1803, major 12 April 1806 to 24 Feb. 1816
when placed on h.p.; re-entered Hanoverian service 1816, L.G.
1836; hon. K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; cr. a baron of Kingdom of Hanover
by George V. King of Hanover 1855 or 1856, only baron he created.
_d._ Hanover 7 June 1856. _Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x_,
688–91 (1879).

HARTNOLL, JOHN HOOPER. _b._ 1799 or 1800; mathematical master
Greenwich hospital sch., retired on a pension; started _The
Kentish Mercury_ 1832, proprietor and editor to his decease;
proprietor and editor of _Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor_
1839 and _Post Magazine Almanac and Insurance Directory_ 1854;
author of _The annual balance sheets of all the insurance
companies, with a letter on the Joint Stock Companies’
registration act_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1853. _d._ Bexley house, Greenwich
6 June 1870. _Newspaper Press, iv_, 174 (1870); _Kentish Mercury
11 June 1870 p._ 4.