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HARRISON, WILLIAM FREDERICK, eldest son of Thomas Harrison, Streatham, Surrey; b. 28 Sep 1814; adm. 25 Jun 1827 (Singleton's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Oct 1832, matr. 1833; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Apr 1837; adm. solicitor [check date]; firm Wilson, Harrison and Bristow, London; d. 22 Nov 1879.

HARRISON, WILLIAM, of London; b. 18 Feb 1534, in “Cordwainer streete, otherwise called Bowe lane, in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle”; at school under Nowell, having previously been at St. Paul’s Sch. (Furnival, Elizabethan England, xiv); Christ Church, Oxford; BA 1556; MA 1560; BD (Cambridge) 1569; ordained; Rector of Radwinter, Essex, from 16 Feb 1558/9; Rector of St. Olave’s, Silver Street, London 28 Mar 1567 – 1570/1; Vicar of Wimbish, Essex, 28 Jan 1570/1-81; Vicar of St. Thomas the Apostle, London, 26 Oct 1583-7; Canon of Windsor from 24 Apr 1586; author of the “Historical Description of England” prefaced to Holinshed’s Chronicle, 1577, and of other works; m. Marion, dau. of William Isebrande, Anderne, near Guisnes, Picardy; d. Feb 1593/4. DNB.

HARRISON, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Harrison, Brent Bridge, Hendon, Middlesex, and Tufton Street, Westminster, and Sarah, only dau. of John Wale, St. Giles in the Fields, London; b. 9 May 1732; adm. (aged 9) May 1741; left 1749; apprenticed to John Nicoll, St. Andrew’s Holborn, attorney, 9 Nov 1749; adm. Middle Temple 14 Mar 1749/50; practised in Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, and Great College Street; m. 23 Nov 1754 Mary, only child of Samuel Cowley, St. George, Hanover Square; d. 13 Dec 1781.

HARRISON, WILLIAM, brother of Henry Bagshaw Harrison (qv); b. 17 Jan 1800; at Rugby Sch. 1808; adm. Christmas 1813; KS 1814; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1818, matr. 5 May 1818, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 1829); BA 1821; MA 1825; Usher at the School 1822; ordained deacon 1823, priest 1825 (both Oxford); Rector of Warmington, Warwicks., from 7 Jan 1831; m. 1831 his cousin Anne, sister of Henry Harrison (adm. 1826, qv); d. 30 Oct 1877.

HARRISON, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1750/1 (Gibson's); in school list 1754.

Harrisson, Michael Arthur Damer, son of Peter Damer Harrisson, farmer, of Broxted, Essex, and Elizabeth Ann, d. of Algernon Winter Rose, architect, of Quendon Hall, Essex; b. 12 Jan. 1947; adm. Sept. 1960 (B); left July 1965; a teacher; project man., Education Leeds, Yorks; m.; killed in traffic accident in Spain 4 May 2013.

Harrod, Dominick Roy, son of Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (qv); b. 21 Aug. 1940; adm. Sept. 1953 (B); left July 1958; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1959, BA 1963, MA 1967; a financial journalist, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph 1962-71, Washington DC correspondent 1966-8; BBC economics correspondent 1971-8; dir. information, Dunlop Ltd. 1978-9; economics ed., BBC Radio 1979-93; city ed. Yorkshire Post 1993-4; programme dir., St George’s House, Windsor 1994-8; pres., Inst. of Journalists 1994-5; author, books on economic topics; m. 1974 Christina Gavrelle Hobhouse, sec., d. of Christopher Bernard Hobhouse, barrister and writer; d. 4 Aug. 2013.

Harrod, Sir Henry Roy Forbes, son of Henry Dawes Harrod, of Kensington, by Frances Marie Desiree, daughter of John Forbes-Robertson; b. Feb. 13, 1900; adm. as non-resident K.S. Sept. 25, 1913 (A); Captain of the School 1918; left (with Triplett exhibition) July 1918; enlisted Sept. 1918; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. : New Coll. Oxon., scholar (History), matric. Hilary 1919; 1st class Literae Humaniores 1921, 1st class Modern History 1922; B.A. 1921, M.A. 1925; Lecturer in Modern History and Economics at Christ Church, Oxon., 1922, Student 1924; Member of the Hebdomadal Council 1929-35, University Lecturer in Economics; joint sec. of the Royal Economic Society 1938; one of the original Fellows of Nuffield Coll. Oxon. 1939; Nuffield Reader in International Economics since 1953; Sir George Watson Lecturer on American History 1953; Faculty Fellow of Nuffield Coll. 1954-58, Honorary Fellow 1958; President, Royal Economic Society, 1962; served on statistical staff of the Admiralty and in the Prime Minister's Office 1940-5; author of International Economics (1933) and other works; knighted 1959; a governor of the school 1946-61; m. 1938 Wilhelmine, daughter of Capt. F. J. Cresswell, Norfolk Regt.; d. 8 Mar. 1978

Harrop, John, son of George Harrop, woollen manufacturer, of Wakefield, Yorks, and Madge, d. of Abraham Weffendin of Netherton, Yorks; b. 22 Aug. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (G); left July 1933; an agriculturalist and hotelier in Lincolnshire; m. 24 Dec. 1935 Audrey, d. of Albert Thomas Rawding of Nottingham; d. 8 Oct. 1979.