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.