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.