HARLOW, GEORGE HENRY, “posthumous son of a China merchant” [was father EICS Canton ?]; b. 10 Jan 1787; at school under Vincent, “for a short time” (Cunningham, British Painters, ii, 312); studied under Henry De Cort, landscape painter, and Samuel Drummond, portrait painter; in Sir Thomas Lawrence’s studio for about eighteen months; exhibited at Royal Academy 1804 onwards; painter of portraits and historical pictures; his picture, Trial of Queen Katharine, containing portraits of Mrs Siddons and the Kembles, subsequently engraved by George Clint, was exhibited in 1817; visited Italy to study Old Master paintings there 1818, being elected a member of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome and painting his own portrait for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; returned to London Jan 1819; d. 4 Feb 1819. DNB.
HARLOWE, THOMAS, son of John Harlowe, City of London; b.; adm.; QS; failed to obtain election to either University 1599; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Feb 1599/1600, aged 17, Canoneer Student 1599 – c. 1611; BA 1603; MA 1606; adm. Middle Temple 28 Nov 1606.
HARMAN, ---; b.; in school list 1754.
HARMAN, ---; b.; adm. after Oct 1803; left 1806.
HARMAN, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Harman, St. James’s, Westminster, and Ann ---; b. 22 Feb 1787; adm. 19 Jan 1796; in school lists 1797, 1801; left before May 1803.
HARMAN, SAMUEL, only son of Samuel Harman, Antigua, Chief Commissioner of Army Accounts, West Indies, and Mary Anne, dau. of James Athill, London; b. Antigua 5 Aug 1788; at school under Vincent; at Winchester Coll. 1804-8; Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Martinique; Master in Chancery and Chief Baron of the Exchequer [there ?]; m. St. Michael, Barbados, 28 Nov 1816 Dorothy Bruce, dau. of William Murray, HM Customs, Barbados; d. at Philadelphia, USA 8 Mar 1841. [But see Harman, Samuel, 1787-?: was this Samuel Harman really a OW ?]
HARMAN, WILLIAM, brother of Samuel Harman (adm. 1796, qv); b. 31 May 1788; adm. 19 Jan 1796 (Clapham); in school list 1797; at school 1799; entered Royal Navy 30 Mar 1800; Lieut. , 24 Mar 1807; killed in action with French frigate Gloire off The Lizard 18 Dec 1812.
Harmsworth, Sir Alfred Leicester St. Barbe, Bart., eldest son of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, Bart., M. P., of Hyde Park, by Annie Louisa, eldest daughter of Thomas Scott, of Clapham, Surrey; b. Nov. 26, 1892; adm. Jan. 18, 1906 (R); left J uly 1910; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1910; B.A. 1913; adm. to the Middle Temple Oct. 31, 1912; served in Great War I; Rifleman Queen Victoria's Rifles Sept. 2, 1914; temp. 2nd Lieut. 16th Batt. the Gloucs Regt. Jan. 18, 1915; severely wounded at Thiepval Aug. 16, 1916; Lieut. July 1, 1917; Asst. Embarkation Staff Officer with rank of Capt. Sept. 12, 1918; gazetted out of the service owing to ill health caused by wounds Feb. 8, 1919; succeeded his father as 2nd Bart., Jan. 19, 1937; m. July 2, 1936, Margaret Florence Ivy Hall; d. 1962.
HARMSWORTH, BRIAN; b.; adm.; BB in 1702 (Chapter Muniments 33734); evidently = Brian Harmsworth, b. 28 Aug 1690, who was adm. as foundation scholar, Charterhouse Sch. 8 Oct 1703, and d. “at his father’s house” Jul 1707.
Harmsworth, Sir Harold Cecil Aubrey, brother of Alfred Leicester St. Barbe Harmsworth (q.v.); b. June 13, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (R); left July 1914; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1915; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A.; transferred to R.M.A.; temp. Lieut. April 20, 1918, and served at Mudros, Dardanelles, S. Russia, and Bosphorus in Great War I; a director of The Daily Sketch and Sunday Herald, Ltd., and of the Western Morning News Co. Ltd., etc.; knighted 1935; d. Sept. 7, 1952.