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HARDY, Rev. Robert Spence. b. Preston 1 July 1803; a printer at York 1819; Wesleyan missionary in Ceylon 1825–30, 1835–47, 1862–5; minister at Leeds 1865 to death; hon. mem. of R.A.S. 2 Feb. 1856; author of On the connexion of the British government with the idolatry of Ceylon 1834; Notices of the Holy Land 1835; Eastern monachism, an account of the laws of the order of the Mendicants 1850; A manual of Budhism 1853. d. Headingley near Leeds 16 April 1868. Minutes of Conference (1868) 25–7.
HARDY, Robert William Hale. Entered navy 1806; at capture of island of Java 1811, at siege of New Orleans 1815; lieut. 20 Feb. 1815 after which he did not go afloat; commander 21 Oct. 1861; F.R.A.S. 1849; author of Travels in the interior of Mexico 1829; Incidental remarks on properties of light 1856; Deity as creator, sustainer and user. Prepared in fulfilment of the purpose of R. W. H. Hardy 1874. d. Kilkenny house, Bath 30 July 1871 aged 77. Monthly Notices R.A.S. xxxii, 122 (1872).
HARDY, Samuel Little. b. 1815; L. and L.M.R.C.S. Ireland 1839 and fellow 1844; M.D. Glasgow 1840; licentiate K.Q.C.P. and L.M. 1852, fellow 1868; M.R.I.A. 1858; physician Pitt st. Instit. for diseases of children, Dublin; physician accoucheur Steevens’ hospital; president Obstetrical soc. 1867; one of the first to recommend chloroform as a local anæsthetic; had a large obstetrical practice; author with A. H. Mac Clintock of Practical observations on midwifery 1848; contributed to Dublin medical journals 1845 &c. d. 9 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 29 Oct. 1868. Medical Times 7 Nov. 1868 p. 544.
HARDY, Sir Thomas Duffus (3 son of Thomas Bartholomew Price Hardy, major R.A.) b. Port Royal, Jamaica 22 May 1804; junior clerk in Public record office, Tower of London 1 Jany. 1819; assistant keeper of public records 1840, deputy keeper 15 July 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869; did much to render the records accessible to the public; instrumental in appointment of Historical MSS. commission 1869; edited Description of the Close Rolls in the Tower 1833 and six other works for the old Record commission; A descriptive catalogue of MSS. relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland 3 vols. 1862–71 and other works for the Rolls series; author of A catalogue of the Lords Chancellors, Keepers of the Great seal, &c. 1843; Life of Henry Lord Langdale 1852. d. 126 Portsdown road, Maida vale, London 15 June 1878. Times 17 June 1878 p. 12 col. 6.
HARDY, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Jamaica 6 July 1807; clerk in Record office, Tower of London 1823; keeper of records of duchy of Lancaster 1830–68; assistant keeper in Record office, Fetter lane, London 1868 and deputy keeper 4 July 1878, resigned 27 Jany. 1886; reorganised the record office and commenced the commission for the destruction of valueless documents; F.S.A. 4 May 1837; placed on Historical MSS. commission 1878; knighted at Osborne 31 Dec. 1883; compiled Charters of duchy of Lancaster 1845; translated A collection of the chronicles by J. de Waurin 1858. d. Milton cottage, 71 St. Germain’s road, Forest hill, London 17 March 1887. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi, 369 (1887).
HARE, Sir John (2 son of John Hare of Firfield near Bristol, floor cloth manufacturer). b. 1784; partner in his father’s business to 1840 when he retired; owner of the Cambria which saved the passengers and crew of Kent East Indiaman in the bay of Biscay 1 March 1825; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 on presenting address on queen’s marriage; resided Brislington, Somerset. d. Hardelot castle près Tamar, Pas-de-Calais, France 2 Feb. 1865.
HARE, John Middleton (son of Rev. Edward Hare, wesleyan minister, d. 1818). Ed. at Woodhouse grove sch. near Leeds 1813; apprentice to James Nichols, printer, London, where he also served as a reader and editor; edited Gem Annual in succession to Tom Hood; sub-edited The Sphynx weekly paper for J. S. Buckingham 4 vols. 1827–8; assist. commissioner on popular education 1858; director of British Equitable life assurance co.; author of An analysis and exposure of the government scheme of education 1847; Familiar colloquies between a father and his children 1862. Dead?
HARE, Ven. Julius Charles (3 son of Francis Hare-Naylor 1753–1815). b. Valdagno near Vicenza 13 Sep. 1795; ed. at Bologna 1797–9 and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1818, classical lecturer 1822; R. of Hurstmonceaux, Sussex 18 June 1832 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 10 April 1840 to death; preb. of Chichester, Jany. 1851 to death; chaplain to the Queen 13 June 1853 to death; translated with Connop Thirlwall Niebuhr’s History of Rome 2 vols. 1828–32; author of The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 1876 and other books; author with his brother A. W. Hare of Guesses at Truth, By Two Brothers, 1st series 1827, 2nd series 1848, new ed. 1871. d. Hurstmonceaux rectory 23 Jany. 1855. A. J. C. Hare’s Memorials of a quiet life (1884) 2 vols.; Sussex archæological collection, iv, 125–208; Quarterly Review, xcvii, 1–28 (1855); M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 255–6; Guardian 8 March 1882 pp. 349–50.
HARE, Maria (dau. of Rev. Oswald Leycester, rector of Stoke-upon-Terne, Salop). b. Toft near Knutsford 22 Nov. 1798; good classical scholar; intimate acquaintance of Reginald Heber, bp. of Calcutta. (m. 2 June 1829 Rev. Augustus William Hare, rector of Alton Barnes d. Rome 18 Feb. 1834); author of A true and sad story 1862; wrote a portion of and collected materials for Memorials of a Quiet Life; lived in Hurstmonceaux parish near her brother in law the Rev. Julius Charles Hare from 1834 for many years. d. Holmhurst 13 Nov. 1870. A. J. C. Hare’s Memorials of a quiet life (1884) 2 vols., 2 portraits; C. Kegan Paul’s Biographical Sketches (1883) 71–92.
HARE, Rev. Robert Henry (5 son of Rev. Edward Hare, d. 1818). b. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 3 March 1816; ed. at Woodhouse grove sch. 1824; apprentice to Christopher and Dove, leather factors, Darlington; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Hornsea 1838–40 and at 14 other places in north of England 1840–72. d. Chapel house, the Square, Dunstable 11 Oct. 1873. J. M. Hare’s Ministry of R. H. Hare (1874), portrait.
HARENC, Charles Joseph (2 son of Benjamin Harenc of Foots Cray, Kent). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 8 Dec. 1829 aged 18, B.A. 1833; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 2 Aug. 1826; one of the best bowlers in England 1830–34; played as late as 1849. d. Costin st. Bedford 14 Dec. 1877. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, i, 547 (1862).
HAREWOOD, Henry Lascelles, 3 Earl of. b. 11 June 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 1814, sold out 1831; lieut. Yorkshire hussar yeomanry 1820, major 1839–43; col. of West Yorkshire hussars; M.P. for Northallerton, Yorkshire 1826–31; styled Viscount Lascelles 1839–41; succeeded as 3 Earl 24 Nov. 1841; lord lieut. of West Riding, Yorkshire 21 Jany. 1846 to death. d. Harewood house near Leeds 22 Feb. 1857 having fractured his skull while following the Bramham Moor foxhounds 24 Jany. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 463–6.
HARFORD, John Scandrett (1 son of John Scandrett Harford of Blaise castle, Gloucs., banker, d. 1815). b. Bristol 8 Oct. 1785; ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam.; D.C.L. of Ox. univ. 1822; the hero of Hannah More’s Cœlebs in search of a wife 1809; made a collection of pictures at Blaise castle 1815–7; gave the site of the castle of Lampeter for St. David’s coll. 1822 of which he became visitor 1827; F.R.S. 29 May 1823; sheriff of Cardigan 1824; M.P. Cardigan 9 July 1841 to 18 April 1842; author of The life of T. Burgess, bishop of Salisbury 1840; Life of Michael Angelo Buonarotti 2 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1858 and 8 other books. d. Blaise castle 16 April 1866. Christian Observer, July 1866 pp. 489–98; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii, 187–95 (1854).
HARFORD, Summers. b. 1795; M.P. for Lewes 30 June 1841, unseated 21 March 1842; contested Brighton 5 May 1842; sheriff of Monmouth 1841. d. Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire 2 June 1873.
HARGOOD, William. b. 22 June 1801; entered navy 19 June 1813, captain 10 Jany. 1837, admiral on h.p. 15 Jany. 1869. d. North lodge, Worthing 8 July 1888.
HARGRAVE, John Fletcher (son of Mr. Hargrave of Greenwich, ironmonger, d. 1851). b. Greenwich 28 Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; landed at Sydney, N.S.W. Feb. 1857, a district court judge 1 year, solicitor general Feb. to Oct. 1859, Nov. 1859 to April 1860, Aug. to Oct. 1863 and Feb. to June 1865; M.P. for East Camden 1859, for Wollongong 1859; attorney general 2 April 1860 to 31 July 1863; mem. of legislative council Oct. 1859; a puisne judge of supreme court 1865; primary judge in equity; first judge of divorce court 1873–84; edited vol. i. of 21st ed. of Blackstone’s Commentaries 1843; many of his law lectures at Sydney Univ. were printed; author of Treatise on the Thellusson act, 39 & 40 Geo. iii, c. 98, with practical observations upon trusts for accumulation 1842. d. Rushcutters’ Bay N.S.W. 23 Feb. 1885.
HARGRAVE, William, b. Cork 1795; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1819, fellow 1825, president; M.B. Dublin univ. 1823; surgeon in sch. of college of surgeons, president; surgeon city of Dublin hospital; member of general medical council 10 May 1861, resigned 16 Feb. 1874; contributed to Dublin Medical Press and Dublin Quarterly Journal; author of A system of operative surgery, Dublin 1831. d. 56 Upper Mount st., Merrion sq. east, Dublin 24 Nov. 1874. Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p. 649.
HARGREAVE, Charles James. b. Wortley near Leeds, Dec. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. London; L.L.B. London; professor of jurisprudence Univ. coll. 1843–9; barrister I.T. 7 June 1844, bencher 1851, master of the library 1865 and reader 1866; a commissioner of Incumbered estates court, Ireland 1849–58; judge of Landed estate court 1858 to death; Q.C. 1852; F.R.S. 18 April 1844, gold medallist; LLD. of Dublin univ. 1852; author of An essay on the resolution of algebraic equations, Dublin 1866; wrote many mathematical papers in Philos. Trans. and other scientific periodicals. d. Bray near Dublin 23 April 1866. Law Mag. and Law Rev., Aug. 1866 pp. 220–35.
HARGREAVES, Henry. b. Manchester, Oct. 1807; with Butterworth and Brooks, calico printers, Manchester, and then a traveller for the firm to 1841; backed Alice Hawthorne for the Chester cup 1841, and commenced a racing career which lasted to 1870; won £40,000 on Ellington in Derby of 1856; purchased John Massey Stanley’s stud 1856. d. 6 Cleveland sq. Bayswater, London 3 July 1887. Baily’s Mag., Aug. 1887 pp. 60–62; Sporting Review, xxxix, 298–9 (1858).
HARGROVE, William (youngest son of Ely Hargrove of Knaresborough 1741–1818). b. Knaresborough 16 Oct. 1788; bought the York Herald 1813, edited it 13 July 1813 to 1848; member of common council York 1818, sheriff 1831; first sec. and treasurer Mechanics’ Institute, York 1827; collected Roman and mediæval remains excavated in and near York, gave them to Yorkshire Philos. Soc. about 1852; author of History and description of the ancient city of York 2 vols., York 1818; The York poetical miscellany 1835; author with J. Hargrove of A new guide to the city of York 1842. d. St. Mary’s, Bootham, York 24 Aug. 1862. Effective, Advertiser 1 May 1886 pp. 25–31, portrait.
HARINGTON, Rev. Edward Charles (only son of Rev. Edward Harington of the Isle of Man, d. 1811). b. Clifton 1804; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833; V. of St. David’s, Exeter 1832–47; preb. of Ex. cath. 1845, chancellor 15 July 1847 to July 1880, canon residentiary 1856 to July 1880, spent £15,000 on repairing the cath.; a founder of Exeter diocesan training college 1840 where he taught for many years; always attended turning of first sod of every new railway in England; author of Brief notes on the church of Scotland 1843; The reconsecration and reconciliation of churches 1850 and 12 other books. d. The Close, Exeter 14 July 1881.
HARINGTON, Sir Henry Byng (eld. son of Henry Hawes Harington of Madras). b. 1808; entered Bengal army 1824, transferred to Bengal civil service 1828; additional member of council, member of supreme council 13 June 1862; lieut. governor of North Western provinces of India 1863 to 1865; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. d. 70 Oxford terrace, London 7 Oct. 1871.
HARINGTON, Rev. Richard (2 son of Sir John Edward Harington, 8 bart., of Ridlington, co. Rutland 1760–1831). b. 26 April 1800; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1842; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1821–33, principal 1842 to death; R. of Olde, Northamptonshire 1833–42. d. High st. Oxford 13 Dec. 1853. bur. in Brasn. coll. chapel 20 Dec. G.M. xli, 206–207 (1854); Correspondence between Dean of Manchester and the principal of Brasenose 1846.
HARKER, Daniel Richard. Toast master, city of London; retired a few years before his death; d. Osborn villas, Westgreen road, Tottenham, Nov. 1874 aged 70.
HARKNESS, Robert. b. Ormskirk, Lancs. 28 July 1816; ed. at Edin. univ. 1833–4; professor of geology Queen’s coll. Cork 1853 to death; F.G.S.; F.R.S. Edin. 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; did much to elucidate geology of Scotland; a writer of upwards of 60 scientific papers; author with H. A. Nicholson of On the Coniston group 1868. d. Imperial hotel, Dublin 4 Oct. 1878. Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv, 41–4 (1879); Geol. Mag. (1878) 528, 574–76, portrait; Proc. of royal soc. of Edin. x, 31–3 (1880); I.L.N. lxxiii, 400 (1878), portrait.
HARLAND, Aurelius (son of Dr. Harland, d. 1866). Ed. at Edin. univ., M.D. 1844; at Hong Kong 1844 to death; surgeon of Seaman’s hospital; acquired Chinese and studied Chinese medicine and physiology; sent papers to R. Asiatic soc. d. Hong Kong 12 Sep. 1858, public monument in the Happy Valley. H. Hance’s Memoir of A. Harland (1858); S. Smiles’ Men of Invention (1884) 288–92.
HARLAND, Rev. Edward (2 son of Christopher Harland of Ashbourne, Derbyshire). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 16 June 1827 aged 17; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; C. of Sandon, Staffs. 1836–51; V. of Colwich, Staffs. 1851 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1873 to death; author of Index Sermonum 1858; A church psalter and hymnal 1865, Supplement 1863. d. Rushton hall, Stafford 8 June 1890.
HARLAND, Edward James (brother of Aurelius Harland). b. Scarborough, May 1831; pupil of R. Stephenson, Newcastle upon Tyne 1846–51; journeyman with J. and G. Thomson, Glasgow 1851; manager for Thomas Toward ship builder near Newcastle 1853; manager for R. Hickson & Co. Belfast 1854, purchased the business 1857, took in Mr. Woolff as a partner 1862; made improvements in length, flatness of bottom and squareness of bilge in build of ships, which became known as Belfast bottoms; built for the government the Lynx and Algerine gun vessels and the Hecla store and torpedo ship 3360 tons; built ships for all the great ocean lines. d. 1866. S. Smiles’ Men of Invention (1884) 288–323.
HARLAND, John (1 son of John Harland, clock maker). b. Hull 27 May 1806; compositor 1821–8; letter press printer; taught himself shorthand and made improvements in the system; chief of reporting staff of Manchester Guardian 1830–60; F.S.A.; an early member of the Rosicrucians; edited 14 volumes for Chetham soc.; author of Historical account of Salley alley, Yorkshire 1853; Ballads and songs of Lancashire 1865, 2 ed. 1875; Lancashire Lyrics 1866; and with T. T. Wilkinson of Lancashire folk lore 1867. d. Brideoak st. Cheetham hill road, Manchester 23 April 1868. bur. Rusholme road cemetery. Sketches of Hull authors, By R. W. Corlass (1879) 35–9; J. Harland and T. T. Wilkinson’s Lancashire legends (1873) memoir pp. xv-xxxv, with portrait.
HARLAND, Rev. William. b. Newton near Pickering, Yorkshire 1801; Primitive Methodist minister Hull 1828; sec. to committee of privileges, London 1857; edited Primitive Methodist Mag. and was editor superintendent of all works issued by the connexion; author of The Primitive Methodist revival hymn book 1861; The Christian Cabinet illustrated almanack (1860) p. 37; probably dead.
HARLE, William Lockey (son of Mr. Harle of Stockton). b. York 1811; solicitor at Newcastle upon Tyne 1833 to death, in London 1848 to death; deputy recorder of Newcastle, member of the town council 1841–53 and 1858 to death, sheriff 1864, alderman 1868 to death; author of A Career in the Commons 1850, in which he set forth a complete programme of policy for liberals; An argument on the inutility of the distinction between barrister and attorney 1851. d. 30 Victoria sq. Newcastle 18 Jany. 1878. Monthly chronicle of north country lore, Feb. 1888 p. 49, portrait; Sketch of that distinguished author, editor, lawyer and municipal patriot, Mr. W. L. H., edited by himself (1854).
HARLECH, John Ralph Ormsby-gore, 1 Baron (eld. child of Wm. Ormsby-Gore, M.P. of Porkington, co. Salop 1779–1860). b. 3 June 1816; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1865; student of L.I. 1837; M.P. for Carnarvonshire 1837–41, for North Shropshire 1859–75; created Baron Harlech of Harlech, co. Merioneth 14 Jany. 1876. d. Boreham house near Chelmsford 15 June 1876. Graphic, xiii, 134, 138 (1876), portrait.
HARLEY, Edward (eld. son of Edward Harley of Bristol, iron merchant). b. Bristol 19 June 1808; ed. at Shrewsbury; solicitor at Bristol 1831 to death; deputy registrar of Bristol Court of Conscience (a borough court of record since time of Wm. iii.) 1 Jany. 1837, registrar Dec. 1843 to 1847 when the court was abolished by County Courts’ Act 1846; joint registrar of Bristol county court 1847 to death; joint district registrar of the High Court 1875 to death. d. Condover Grange near Shrewsbury 25 Oct. 1888.
HARLEY, George. b. 1791; drawing master; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1817–65; drew in lithography some landscape drawings as ‘Lessons in Landscape’ for Rowney and Forster’s series 1820–22; author of A guide to landscape drawing in pencil and chalk 1848, 3 ed. 1849. d. 32 Kelly st., St. Pancras, London 10 Jany. 1871.
HARLEY, John Pritt (son of John Harley, draper). bapt. St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 5 March 1786; apprentice to a linen draper 1801; acted in Kent and Sussex 1807–13; first appeared in London at English opera house as Marcelli in The Devil’s Bridge 15 July 1815; played the chief parts at Drury Lane 1815–35, 1838, 1841–8, at St. James’ theatre 1835, at Covent Garden 1838, 1840, at Princesses theatre 1850 to death; especially good in Shakespearean clowns; master and treasurer Drury Lane theatrical fund 1833 to death; made a collection of 300 walking sticks and canes. d. 14 Upper Gower st. London 22 Aug. 1858. Illust. sp. and dr. news 13 Sep. 1879 pp. 629–30; Metropolitan Mag. xvii, 126–32 (1836); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, i, 69–77 (1825), portrait; Planche’s Extravaganzas ii, 63 (1879), portrait.
HARLOWE, Sarah. b. London 1765; singer and actor at Sadler’s Wells 1789; first appeared at Covent Garden in The Fugitive 4 Nov. 1790; played at the Haymarket 1792, at Drury Lane 1793, 1816, at English opera house 1794, at Royalty theatre 1797, retired 1826; a low comedy actress with a complete knowledge of the stage; her best parts were Lucy in The Rivals and the Widow Warren in The Road to Ruin. d. 5 Albert place, Gravesend, Kent 2 Jany. 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. iii, 235–41 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, i, 91–3 (1844).
HARMAN, Edward Robert King- (1 son of Hon. Lawrence King-Harman of Rockingham, Roscommon, d. 10 Oct. 1875). b. 3 April 1838; ed. at Eton 1847–50; ensign 60 rifles 1855, lieut. 1856 to 59 or 60; contested Longford co. 16 May 1870, contested Dublin city 18 Aug. 1870; M.P. Sligo co. 12 Jany. 1877 to 24 March 1880, contested Sligo co., April 1880; M.P. co. Dublin 1883–5, contested co. Dublin, Dec. 1885; M.P. Isle of Thanet division of Kent 1885 to death; col. Roscommon militia 14 Aug. 1878 to death; lord lieut. of Roscommon 1878 to death; P.C. Ireland 1885; parliamentary under sec. for Ireland 8 April 1887 to death. d. Rockingham 10 June 1888. Times 11 June 1888 p. 9, 15 June p. 5; Graphic, xxvii, 296 (1883), portrait.
HARMAR, David James. Standard bearer of the Corps of Gentlemen at arms 31 Jany. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1872. d. 7 the Paragon, Bath 12 Oct. 1874 aged 59.
HARMER, James (son of a Spitalfields’ weaver, d. 1787). b. London 1777; attorney in London 1798–1833 when he relinquished his practice worth £4000 a year; common councilman city of London 1826, alderman of ward of Farringdon without 1833–40; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1834; chief proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch which in 1835 circulated 32,000 weekly and he made £15,000 a year; a founder of R. Free hospital, Greville st. 1828; resided at Ingress Park near Greenhithe which he built chiefly of the stone removed from old London Bridge; author of Murder of Mr. Steele: documents to show innocence of J. Holloway 1807; Account of case of G. Mathews who was convicted and pardoned 1819; The case of Edward Harris who was executed, facts to prove his innocence 1825. d. at Adam Steele’s house, Cricklewood, Middlesex 11 June 1853. G.M. xl, 201 (1853); I.L.N. xxii, 507 (1853); Grant’s Newspaper press, iii, 41–42 (1872).
Note.—In 1840 he was the senior alderman below the chair, but was not elected Lord Mayor in consequence of his connexion with the Weekly Dispatch which then advocated advanced religious and political views.
HARNESS, Sir Henry Drury (son of John Harness, M.D., comr. of transport board). b. 29 April 1804; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 May 1827; instructor in fortification at Woolwich 1834–40 and professor of fortification 1844–5; instructor in surveying at Chatham 1840–44; inspector of Welsh roads 1845; sec. to railway commission 1846; deputy master of the mint 1850–52 when he entirely reformed the working arrangements; commissioner of public works in Ireland 1852–4; commanded engineers in India 1857–9, at Cawnpore, siege of Lucknow and at operations in Rohilkund and Oude; director R. engineer establishment, Chatham 1860; managed cattle plague department of privy council 1866; C.B. 26 July 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. commandant R.E. 15 June 1877 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; author of papers in Papers of Corps of Engineers 1844. d. Barton End, Headington, Oxford 10 Feb. 1883, portrait in mess of R.E. at Chatham. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii, 378 (1883); Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xliv, 133–5 (1884); T. B. Collinson’s Memoir of Sir H. D. Harness (1883), portrait.
HARNESS, Rev. William (elder bro. of Sir H. D. Harness). b. near Wickham, Hants. 14 March 1790; ed. at Harrow where in 1802 he made an acquaintance with Byron which he kept up; at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816, Boyle lecturer 1822; C. of Hampstead 1823–6; incumb. Regent sq. chapel, London 1826–44; clerical registrar of privy council 1841; minister of Brompton chapel 1844–7; P.C. of All Saints, Knightsbridge 1849 to death, he raised the money for building this ch.; editor of The Works of Shakespeare 8 vols. 1825 to which he prefixed a life; author of The life of Mary Russell Mitford 1870; killed by falling down stairs at the deanery, Battle, Sussex 11 Nov. 1869. L’ Estrange’s Life of Rev. W. Harness (1871); Reg. and Mag. of Biography, Dec. 1869 pp. 308–9.
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.
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.