HAWTHORN, WILLIAM, son of Robert Hawthorn, London and Jamaica, West India merchant; b. 31 Jul 1835; adm. 3 Feb 1848; QS 1850; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1854, adm. pens. 29 May 1854, scholar 1855, matr. Mich. 1854; BA 1858; a West India merchant, firm Hawthorn Shedden & Co.; m. (by 1881) Elizabeth ---; d. 26 Nov 1914.
Hawkshaw, John Clarke, 1841-1921
HAWKSHAW, JOHN CLARKE, eldest son of Sir John Hawkshaw, Kt, FRS, Hollycombe, Sussex, Pres. Institute of Civil Engineers, and Ann, dau. of Rev. James Jackson, Green Hamerton, Yorks.; b. 17 Aug 1841; adm. 23 Jan 1851 (G); left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1860; took part in ten “greases” for the pancake, winning it in 1859 and 1860 (The Spectator, 15 Mar 1919, 325); rowed v. Eton 3 Aug 1860; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 May 1860, matr. Mich. 1860; won Univ. Sculls 1861; rowed v. Eton 1863, 1864; Pres. Cambridge Univ. Boat Club 1864; BA 1864; MA 1867; contested (Liberal) Lyme Regis 1865; a civil engineer to retirement in 1915; AMICE 5 Feb 1867, MICE 10 Mar 1874, Pres. ICE 1902-3; JP Sussex 1912; m. 12 Oct 1865 Cicely Mary, dau. of Francis Wedgwood, Barlaston, Staffs.; d. 12 Feb 1921.
HASTINGS, WARREN, second son of Rev. Penyston Hastings, Vicar of Bledington, Gloucs., and Hester, dau. of Thomas Warren, Stubhill, near Twining, Gloucs.; b. 6 Dec 1732; adm. May 1743 (Gibson's); KS (Capt.) 1747; left 1749; Writer, EICS Bengal 1749; landed at Calcutta 8 Oct 1750; Resident, Murshidabad 1757-60; member of council, Calcutta 1761-4; returned to England 1764; gave evidence on India to a committee of the House of Commons 1766; Second on Council, Madras 1769-72; Governor of Bengal 13 Apr 1772 – Oct 1774, Governor-Gen. of Bengal 20 Oct 1774 – Feb 1785; reorganised financial and judicial system in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa; assisted Nawab of Oudh against the Rohillas; took measures against dacoits; named as first Governor-General of Bengal in Act of 1773; opposed by majority on new Council; charged with corruption by Nuncomar, who was subsequently arrested on a charge of forgery in a private suit instigated by an Indian, and hanged; took measures to improve the EI Company’s finances; supported by Supreme Court, Calcutta, which ignored the acceptance by the Company’s directors of his provisional resignation; fought a duel with Sir Philip Francis, who had persistently opposed him in Council, 17 Aug 1780; drove Haidar Ali out of the Carnatic; deposed Chait Singh, Zemindar of Benares, and seized his treasure 1781; suspected of conniving at the imprisonment of the Begums of Oudh and the seizure of their property; concluded treaty with Tippoo Sultan in 1783 which laid foundation for British supremacy in India; founded Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Calcutta Madrisa; left India Feb 1785; returned to England 13 Jun 1785; his impeachment on ground of corruption and cruelty in his administration of Bengal voted by a large majority in the House of Commons 3 Apr 1787; his trial in Westminster Hall occupied 145 days between 13 Feb 1788 and 23 Apr 1795, but resulted in an acquittal; retired to estate at Daylesford, Worcs., purchased by him in 1788; Privy Councillor 6 May 1814; FRS 25 Jun 1801; DCL Oxford 30 Jun 1813; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. 1st, 1757 Mary, widow of Capt. John Buchanan, Craigieven; m. 2nd, 8 Aug 1777 Anna Maria Apollonia, mother of Sir Charles Imhoff (qv), widow of Baron Christopher Adam Carl von Imhoff, and dau. of Baron von Chapuset; d. 22 Aug 1818. DNB. Monument in North Transept, Westminster Abbey.
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 Frederick, 1814-1879
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 Bassett, 1804-?
HARRISON, WILLIAM BASSETT, son of John Orton Harrison, Wardour Street, London, and Harriet --- (IGI); b. 14 Jan 1804; adm. 27 Jan 1817; left Christmas 1817.
HARRISON, HENRY, son of Rev. William Bagshaw Harrison, Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, and Charlotte Tonkin; b. 27 Mar 1813; adm. 17 Jan 1826 (Singleton's); KS 1827; rowed v. Eton 1831; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1831, matr. Mich. 1831; BA 1835; MA 1838; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1836, priest 8 Oct 1837 (both Canterbury); Curate, Goudhurst, Kent 1836-40; Vicar of Kilndown, Goudhurst, Kent, from 1840; Chaplain to Ticehurst Union 1853; m. 9 Sep 1840 Emily, dau. of Richard Springett, Finchcox Park; d. 28 Sep 1892.
Harley, Robert William Daker, 1846-1907
HARLEY, ROBERT WILLIAM DAKER, eldest son of John Harley, Ross Hall, Shropshire, and Anna Maria Platt, dau. of Robert Smith, Pontypool, Monmouthshire; b. 3 Apr 1846; adm. 28 Sep 1860 (James'); rowed v. Eton 28 Jul 1864; left Aug 1865; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Oct 1865, matr. Mich. 1865; succeeded to estates of Earls of Oxford under the will of Jane, Lady Langdale, daughter of Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford (qv); of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire; DL JP Herefordshire, High Sheriff 1883; JP Shropshire 1880, also JP Radnorshire; m. 17 Dec 1878 Hon. Patience Annie Rodney, only dau. of Robert Dennett Rodney, 6th Baron Rodney; d. 13 Nov 1907.
HARLEY, EDWARD, 2ND EARL OF OXFORD, only son of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford PC KG, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord High Treasurer, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Foley MP, Witley Court, Worcs.; nephew of Edward Harley (at school under Busby, qv); b. 2 Jun 1689; at school under Knipe; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1707; MA 2 Jan 1711/2; DCL 4 Jun 1730; MP New Radnor 16 Jul 1711-5, Cambridgeshire 1722 – 21 May 1724; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Oxford 21 May 1724; FRS 23 Nov 1727; High Steward of Cambridge from 1728; friend of Pope, Swift and Matthew Prior (qv), and patron of George Vertue and Oldys; added very considerably to his father’s collection of books and manuscripts; also collected pictures, prints and coins; his Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, estate was sold in 1740 to Lord Hardwicke to pay off his debts; his miscellaneous curiosities, coins, medals and portraits were sold by auction in March 1741/2; the books, pamphlets and prints were purchased the same year by the bookseller Thomas Osborne; the manuscripts were sold to the nation in 1753 and are now the Harleian MSS in the British Library; Busby Trustee 18 Feb 1725/6; the letters to him from his Oxford tutor William Stratford (qv), which make frequent allusions to the School, are calendared HMC Portland MSS, vol. vii; m. 31 Oct 1713 Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, only dau. of John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare (afterwards 1st Duke of Newcastle); d. 16 Jun 1741. Buried Duke of Newcastle’s vault, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
Harcourt-Vernon, Granville Edward, 1816-1861
HARCOURT-VERNON, GRANVILLE EDWARD, eldest son of Granville Harcourt-Vernon (qv), and his first wife; b. 23 Nov 1816; adm. 16 Sep 1829 (Stikeman's); KS 1830; Capt. of the School 1834; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1835, matr. 4 Jun 1835, Westminster Student; BA 1839; MA 1842; Private Secretary to Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (qv), when Chief Secretary for Ireland, and to Earl of Lincoln MP, when Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests and Chief Secretary for Ireland; MP (Peelite) Newark 1852-7; m. 23 Nov 1854 Lady Selina Catherine Meade, only dau. of Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam PC GCH, Ambassador at Berlin; d. 1 Feb 1861.