HARLEY, Edward (eld. son of Edward Harley of Bristol, iron merchant). b. Bristol 19 June 1808; ed. at Shrewsbury; solicitor at Bristol 1831 to death; deputy registrar of Bristol Court of Conscience (a borough court of record since time of Wm. iii.) 1 Jany. 1837, registrar Dec. 1843 to 1847 when the court was abolished by County Courts’ Act 1846; joint registrar of Bristol county court 1847 to death; joint district registrar of the High Court 1875 to death. d. Condover Grange near Shrewsbury 25 Oct. 1888.
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.