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GB-2014-WSA-08733 · Person · ca. 1664-1693

HARRINGTON, JAMES, son of James Harrington, Waltham Abbey, Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1679; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1683, matr. 17 Dec 1683, aged 19, Westminster Student from 17 Dec 1683; BA 1687; MA 1690; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 2 Jun 1690; quickly acquired a reputation for his “wonderful and pregnant knowledge of the common law”; wrote the preface and introduction to the first edition of Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses; author of a Latin hexameter poem and several pamphlets; m. 23 Jul 1691 Anne Stradling, niece of Very Rev. George Stradling DD, Dean of Chichester; d. 23 Nov 1693. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB. [Perhaps James Harrington, son of James Harrington, and Anne ---, bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 24 Apr 1664 (IGI)]

GB-2014-WSA-08734 · Person · fl. 1637

HARRINGTON, VILLIERS; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1637; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. 10 Apr 1638, matr. 1638.

GB-2014-WSA-08735 · Person · d. 1857

HARRIOTT, THOMAS GEORGE; b.; in school lists May and Oct 1803; left Mar 1805; commissioned in Army as Ensign 1807; Lieut., Royal Staff Corps 11 Oct 1811; retd., half-pay 1831, as Maj., Royal Staff Corps; Lieut. -Col.; served in Peninsular War; d. in Germany 18 Jul 1857 (will proved PCC 3 Aug 1857, of Twickenham, Middlesex). [perhaps m. 7 Sep 1852 Anne Poulett Thomson (IGI)]

GB-2014-WSA-08736 · Person · ca. 1768-1822

HARRIOTT, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Harriott, St. Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, West Indies; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1784; left Dec 1785; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Jan 1786, did not matr.; migr. to Exeter Coll. Oxford, gent. commoner 4 Nov 1788 – 15 Jun 1789, matr. 3 Nov 1788, aged 20; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 May 1785; lived at Metz, France; m. [note will William Harriott, South Stoneham, Hampshire, proved PCC 16 Apr 1822] [perhaps m. at St. Martin’s in the Fields 5 Jul 1789 Ann Pither (IGI)]

GB-2014-WSA-08737 · Person · ca. 1790-1847

HARRIOTT, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Harriott (qv); b.; adm.; in school lists May and Oct 1803; left 1806; Exeter Coll. Oxford, gent. commoner 18 Dec 1807 – 7 Jun 1815, matr. 18 Nov 1807, aged 17; BA 1811; MA 1814; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1813, priest 12 Jun 1814 (both Bath & Wells); Vicar of Odiham, Hampshire, from 25 Aug 1824; d. 11 Jun 1847. [perhaps he or his father m. at South Stoneham, Hampshire 10 Sep 1818 Caroline Lucy Warne (IGI)]

Harris, ---, fl., 1747
GB-2014-WSA-20774 · Person · fl., 1747

Harris, ---; took over a boarding house in Dean’s Yard previously kept by Rev.Samuel Wesley (qv) (advertisement in General Advertiser 11 Mar 1747), but no Westminster School boarders are recorded with her over the period 1735-53, and her boarding house may not have taken boarders of school age.

Harris, ---, I, fl. 1656
GB-2014-WSA-08738 · Person · fl. 1656

HARRIS, ---; b.; adm.; left 1656 (School Lists 1656, first three quarters).

Harris, ---, II, fl. 1656
GB-2014-WSA-019180 · Person · fl. 1656

HARRIS, ---; b. ; adm. ; in school list Michaelmas quarter 1656.

GB-2014-WSA-08739 · Person · ca. 1724-1791

HARRIS, ARCHDALE; b.; adm. (aged 10) Mar 1734; left 1738 (?); a surgeon, practising in New Palace Yard, Westminster; member, Court of Assistants, Surgeons’ Company, from 1772; m.; d. 8 Jun 1791, aged 67.