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.