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HARRISON, SIR HENRY LELAND, second son of Rev. James Harwood Harrison, Rector of Bugbrooke, Northants, and Gertrude Maria, dau. of Capt. Hickman Leland Rose, Dover, Kent; nephew of Henry Bagshaw Harrison (qv); b. 5 Feb 1837; adm. 1 Jul 1850 (G), from Uppingham Sch.; QS 1851; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1855, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1855, but did not matr. or reside; went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1856, exhibitioner 1856, Canoneer Student 1858, lecturer in mathematics; 1st cl. Mathematics and 2nd cl. Classics (Mods) 1858, 4th cl. Mathematics 1859; BA 1859; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jan 1859, called to bar 17 Nov 1870; entered Bengal Civil Service 1860; Junior Secretary, Bengal Government 1867; Magistrate and Collector, Midnapore 1871; Secretary to Revenue Board 1878, member Rent Commission 1879; Chairman, Calcutta Corporation, and Commissioner Calcutta Police 1881-90; knighted 14 Feb 1887; member, Bengal Board of Revenue 1890; Roman Catholic convert 1866; m. 24 Sep 1860 Fanny Matilda, dau. of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (qv); d. at Chittagong, Bengal 5 May 1892.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.