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

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

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.

HARRIS, ARCHDALE, son of Archdale Harris (qv); b.; adm. 16 Jul 1781; a surgeon, New Palace Yard, Westminster; d. 8 Apr 1799, aged 28.

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, GEORGE, 1ST BARON HARRIS, son of Rev. George Harris, Curate, Brasted, Kent, and Sarah, dau. of George Twentyman, Braintree, Cumberland; b. 18 Mar 1746; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1802, 1817); Cadet, RMA Woolwich 1 Jan 1759; Lieut. -Fireworker, Royal Artillery 21 Dec 1760; Ensign, 5th Foot 30 Jul 1762; Lieut., 2 Jan 1765; Adjutant 2 Sep 1767 – 14 Mar 1772; Capt., 25 Jul 1771; served in America 1774-8, wounded at Bunker’s Hill and at Toon Hill; Maj., 7 Oct 1777; commanded provisional battalion of grenadiers at capture of St. Lucia 1778; second in command at defence of La Vigie; while returning home in 1779 he was captured by a French privateer, but was subsequently released on parole; Lieut. -Col., 5th Foot 29 Nov 1780, exchanged to 76th Foot 12 Oct 1787; accompanied Major-Gen. William Medows to India as Aide-de-Camp and Secretary; Col. in the Army 18 Nov 1790; served against Tippoo Sahib 1790-2; Maj. -Gen., 3 Oct 1794; commanded troops in Madras Presidency Mar 1797 – Aug 1798; Governor of Madras Feb – Aug 1798; conducted operations against Tippoo Sahib, captured Seringapatam and conquered Mysore 1799; Col., 73rd Foot, from 14 Feb 1800; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1801; Gen., 1 Jan 1812; created Baron Harris 11 Aug 1815; GCB 20 May 1820; m. 9 Dec 1779 Ann Carteret, youngest dau. of Charles Dixon, Bath; d. 19 May 1829. DNB.

HARRIS, GEORGE, son of Right Rev. John Harris DD, Bishop of Llandaff, successively Dean of Hereford and of Wells, and Ann ---; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1729; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Jun 1738; BCL 1745; DCL 1750; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 23 Oct 1750; Chancellor, Dioceses of Bangor (by 1769, still 1780), Durham (by 1780, still 1783), Hereford (by 1769, still 1783), Llandaff (by 1760, query still 1783), and Winchester (by 1769 [not later ?]), also Commissary of Essex (by 1780, still 1783), Hertfordshire (by 1780, still 1783) and Surrey (by 1760, still 1783); Admiralty Advocate 14 Jun 1764 – 21 May 1782; editor, Justinian’s Institutes, with English translation and notes, 1756; m. 28 Feb 1756/7 Hannah Price, St. Benet’s, Paul’s Wharf, London; d. 16 Apr 1796. DNB. [Perhaps George Harris, son of John Harris & Ann ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 5 Sep 1721 (IGI)].

HARRIS, HENRY LUCAS, son of Henry Harris, EICS Madras, surgeon, and Jane Charles; bapt. 21 Mar 1789; adm.; left 1807; Cadet, EICS Madras 1807; Ensign, 24th Madras Native Infantry 7 Apr 1809; Lieut., 5 Nov 1814; d. at Bolaram, Hyderabad 1 Dec 1819.

HARRIS, HENRY, son of Henry Harris, Worcs.; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 16) 1661 (Chapter Muniments 43105-6).