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.