HARRISON, Robert. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. and M.B. 1824, M.D. 1837; L. and F.R.C.S. Ireland 1816; M. and F.R.C.S. Eng. 1815; professor of anatomy and physiology Trin. coll. 1844 to death; surgeon to Dr. Steevens’ hospital and medical college, Dublin; author of The Dublin Dissector 2 vols. Dublin 1827; The surgical anatomy of the arteries of the body 2 vols. Dublin 1824, 4 ed. 1839. d. 1 Hume st. Dublin 23 April 1858. Lancet, i, 135–9 (1827–8); Medical Directory 1859 p. 973.
HARRISON, Robert Alexander. b. Montreal 1833; called to Upper Canadian bar 1855, the first person called with honours; chief clerk of crown law department for Upper Canada 1854–59; Q.C. 1867; member of House of Commons 1867–72; chief justice of province of Ontario 8 Oct. 1875 to death; author of A digest of all the cases in the Queen’s Bench and Practice court for Upper Canada 1823–51, Toronto 1852; The statutes of practical utility 1857; The common law procedure act 1856, 1858; The municipal manual for Upper Canada 1859, 4 ed. 1879; The common law procedure act, Canada 1870. d. Nov. 1878. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 176–7.
HARRISON, Samuel (youngest son of Rev. William Harrison, wesleyan minister). b. Banwell, Somerset 1826; ed. Woodhouse grove 1834; apprentice to a printer, Sheffield; shorthand reporter to Sheffield Times to 1854; introduced type-high stereotype columns in newspapers; proprietor with Henry Pawson of Sheffield Times 1854–7, sole proprietor 1857, editor 1854–69; acquired the Sheffield Iris, the Sheffield Mercury and the Sheffield Argus, all of which were incorporated in the Times; author of The Last Judgment, a poem in twelve books 1857, new ed. 1862; A complete history of the great flood at Sheffield 1864. d. Oakvilla, Broombank, Sheffield 21 Feb. 1871. Sheffield Times 25 Feb. 1871 p. 8, 4 March p. 8.
HARRISON, Samuel Bealey (eld. son of John Harrison of Foxley Grove, Berkshire). b. Manchester 4 March 1802; special pleader; barrister M.T. 15 June 1832; settled at Bronte, co. Halton, Canada as a miller and farmer 1837; called to bar of Upper Canada, Michs. term 1839, Q.C. 4 Jany. 1845, bencher of the Law society; judge of county court of county of York; represented Kingston in 1st parliament of United Canada 1841–43 and Kent in 2nd parliament 1843–45; mem. of executive council of Canada 1841–43; mem. of board of works 1841–44. d. Toronto 23 July 1867.
HARRISON, Thomas. Educated for an architect; associated with Wm. Ruff in supplying racing intelligence to London and provincial papers; on staff of Bell’s Life in London to 1860; on staff of The Field 1860 to death. d. 8 Lodge road, St. John’s Wood, London 16 July 1882. The Field 22 July 1882 p. 134.
HARRISON, Thomas Elliott (son of William Harrison, ship builder, Sunderland). b. North End, Fulham, Middlesex 4 April 1808; pupil of William Chapman, C.E. to 1829; surveyed part of the line for London and Birmingham railway 1830 and Stanhope and Tyne railway 1832, and built the Victoria bridge over the Wear 170 feet high with arches of 160 feet span 1837–8; engineer with Robert Stephenson of high level bridge at Newcastle 1849; engineer in chief of York, Newcastle and Berwick line 1849 to death; designed and carried out the Jarrow docks at South Shields 1855–9, designed the Hartlepool docks; built York railway station 1877; M.I.C.E. 1834, pres. 1874. d. Newcastle 20 March 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xciv, 301–13 (1888), portrait.
HARRISON, Thomas Richard (son of James Harrison, printer). b. 3 May 1798; head of firm of Harrison & Sons, printers, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross, London; partner with J. W. Parker; printer to the Foreign office and printer of London Gazette. d. 53 Russell sq. London 29 April 1869.
HARRISON, William. b. Maryport, Cumberland, Oct. 1812; commander of merchant ships to 1842; connected with Cunard line of packets 1842–55 and crossed the Atlantic 180 times; app. commander of the Great Eastern Jany. 1856, conducted her from Deptford to Portland roads Sep. 1859; drowned off Southampton dock gates 21 Jany. 1860. I.L.N. 6 Nov. 1858, portrait, 4 Feb. 1860, portrait; Drawing Room portrait gallery (3 Ser. 1860), portrait.
HARRISON, William (only son of a coal merchant). b. Marylebone, London 15 June 1813; ed. at Royal Academy of Music 1836–7; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 2 May 1839 as Henrique in Rooke’s opera of Henrique or the Love Pilgrim; sang at Drury Lane 1843, the original Thaddeus in Balfe’s Bohemian girl 27 Nov. 1843; played at Princess’s 1849, at Haymarket 1851; toured through U.S. with Louisa Pyne 1854–57, they opened Lyceum theatre 21 Sep. 1857 and were lessees of Covent Garden 1858 to 19 March 1864, produced 10 new operas; sole manager of Her Majesty’s theatre 8 Nov. 1864 to 16 March 1865; made his last appearance as Fritz in Grand Duchess at Liverpool, May 1868; had a tenor voice of remarkable purity and sweetness; translated Masse’s operetta Les noces de Jeannette and produced it at Covent Garden as The marriage of Georgette in 1860. (m. 4 March 1839 Ellen dau. of Wm. Clifford, actor d. 156 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 5 Jany. 1889), he d. Gaisford st. Kentish town, London 9 Nov. 1868. Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 693 (1879); Era 15 Nov. 1868 p. 10; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 51–3 (1869).
Note.—He was the first to endeavour to establish English opera and in his undertakings lost £20,000. He produced more English operas than any of his successors have been able or willing to do.