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)]

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

Harris, Charles Gordon, son of the Rev. Charles Harris, Rector of Garsdon, Wilts, by Mary Wilson, daughter of Robert Moir, M. D., of Stirling; b. May 9, 1901; adm. May 4, 1916 (H); left Dec. 1916; asst. manager of the General Accident Assurance Corporation at Shanghai, China, 1929-39; a planter in New Guinea 1939-49; a farmer and civil servant in Kenya 1949-59; Lieut. R.N.V.R. June 6, 1940; m. Oct. 21, 1925, Ursula, daughter of Andrew Anderson, of Wallasey, Cheshire.

HARRIS, HENRY, son of William Harris, Middlesex; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224).

HARRIS, JOHN, of Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1617, Westminster Student to 1624, matr. 6 Dec 1621, aged 20; BA 6 Dec 1621.

HARRIS, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1630, adm. scholar 1631, matr. Easter 1631; BA 1634/5.

HARRIS, JOSEPH, son of Thomas Harris, London; b.; adm.; in under school list 1723; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1725; KS 1726; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1730, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1730, scholar 7 May 1731, matr. 1731; MA 1736; occasional Tutor 1745 [check].

Harris, Leonard Davis, son of L. H. Harris, of Ruislip, Middlesex; b. Nov. 13, 1905; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (H); left Dec. 1924; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Aug. 26, 1940; Flight-Lieut; d. Nov. 8, 1959.

Harris, Norman Francis, son of F. E. Harris of Bexley, Kent; b. 31 May 1907; adm. Jan. 1920 (R); left Dec. 1921; RAFVR 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), despatches Jan. 1945; d. 1994.

Harris, Oscar Drewe (Odee), son of Charles Drewe Harris, of Hampstead, by Harriet Agnes Tomlin, daughter of Stanley Harris, of Amersham, Bucks; b. March 15, 1884; adm. Jan. 20, 1898 (H); left April 1901; in the employment of Eastern Telegraph Co. in London and abroad 1901-8; entered the theatrical business 1909; theatre manager for Andre Charlot at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Coventry Street, London; served in Egypt, France, and Italy with the 4th Batt. West Indies Regt. in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. March 6, 1916; Lieut. May 31, 1916; Capt. Nov. 20, 1916; author of Unsettled in Places (1937); m. Sept. 8, 1956, Audrey Mary, daughter of Joseph Edgar George, silk buyer, formerly of Bath, Somerset; d. 1975.