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HARRIS 



1st Baron Harris, 

 British soldier 



Harris, Outer Hebrides. Tarbert, the principal town 

 of this part of the island of Lewis, from the east 



Harringay. District of N. 



London. Built within recent years 



over the once open country called 



Green Lanes, a name now given to 



a main thoroughfare, it lies be- 

 tween Finsbury Park and Hornsey. 



Harringay is a variant of Haringea, 



Haringhea, or Haringey, by one or 



the other of which names Hornsey 



(q.v.) was known between the 13th 



and 16th centuries. The district has 



stations on the G.N.R. and M.R. 

 Harrington, EARL OF. British 



title borne since 1742 by the family 



of Stanhope. Its first holder was 

 William Stan- 

 hope, who be- 

 longed to the 

 same family as 

 the 1st earl 

 of Chesterfield, 

 and from 

 whom the 

 Earls Stan- 

 hope as well as 

 the earls of 

 Harrington 

 are descended. 

 He was a noted 

 politician i n 

 the time of 



George II, being ambassador to 



Spain, a secretary of state, lord 



president of the council, and lord- 

 lieutenant of Ireland. He was 



made a baron in 1730 and an earl 



in 1742, dying in 1756. The title 



descended in the direct line. Charles 



Augustus, the 8th earl (1844-1917), 



was long a master of hounds. The 



earl's residence is Elvaston Castle, 



Derby, and his eldest son is known 



as Viscount Petersham. 



Harris. Name given to the 



southern portion of the island of 



Lewis, one of the Outer Hebrides. 



It is about 20 m. long and of vary- 

 ing breadth, and is a mountainous 



and barren district. It forms part 



of the county of Inverness. The 



parish includes a number of ad- 

 jacent islands, St. Kilda among 



them. Sheep are reared and wool 



is woven, hence the Harris tweed. 



The Sound of Harris, which divides 



it from North Uist on the S., is 



Charles Augustus, 



8th Earl 

 of Harrington 



the only channel 

 of the Outer 

 Hebrides for large 

 vessels. It is 10 m. 

 long and about 7 

 wide. Tarbert is 

 the chief place. 

 In 1920 much of it, 

 about 60,000 acres, 

 was purchased by 

 Lord Leverhulme. 

 Pop. 5,500. 



Harris, GEORGE 

 HARRIS, IST BARON 

 (1746-1829). Bri- 

 tish soldier. Born 

 at Brasted, Kent, 

 March 18, 1746, 

 the son of a clergyman, he was 

 educated at Westminster and 

 Woolwich. Having entered the 

 artillery, he was severely wounded 

 at Bunker Hill in 1775. Proceeding 

 to India as aide-de-camp to General 

 Medows. he served in the first cam- 

 paign against 

 Tippoo Sahib 

 in 1790-91, and 

 was afterwards 

 given a high 

 appointment 

 in Madras. In 

 the second 

 campaign he 

 was in com- 

 mand of the 

 operati ons 



After A. W. Davis w hich, in 1799, 



ended with the storming of 

 Seringapatam and annexation of 

 Mysore. In 1815 he was created 

 Baron Harris of Mysore and Ser- 

 ingapatam. He died at Belmont, 

 Kent, in May, 1829. 



Harris, GEORGE ROBERT CAN- 

 NING HARRIS, 4TH BARON (b. 1851). 

 British politician and cricketer. 

 Born Feb. 3, 

 1851, he was 

 educated at 

 Eton and Christ 

 Church, Oxford. 

 In 1872 he suc- 

 ceeded to the 

 title. As a crick- 

 eter he was in 

 the Eton eleven 

 for three years 

 (1 868-70 ), 

 while he played 



for Oxford against Cambridge in 

 1871, 1872, and 1874. He joined 

 the Kent county team, and in 

 1875 became its captain, retaining 

 that post until 1 889. Harris played 

 for England against Australia in a 

 test match in 1880, and captained 

 a team that went to Australia. As 

 a Conservative politician, he was 

 under-secretary for India, 1885- 

 86, and for war, 1886-89. From 

 1890-95 he was governor of Bom- 

 bay. Later he was associated with 

 industrial undertakings in S.Africa. 



4th Baron Harris, 

 British politician 



Russell 



Harris, SIR AUGUSTUS HENRY 

 GLOSSOP (1852-96). British actor 

 and theatrical manager. Born in 

 Paris, he made his first appearance 

 at the Theatre 

 Royal, Man- 

 chester, in 

 1873. In 1879 

 he became 

 lessee of Drury 

 Lane, and with 

 MerittandPet- 

 titt wrote The 

 World (p r o- 



Sir Charles Harris, 



duced July 31, 1880), the first of the 

 spectacular melodramas which 

 helped to revive the prosperity of 

 the house. He also staged panto- 

 mimes at Drury Lane on a scale of 

 great splendour. He was sheriff 

 of London in 1890-91, being 

 knighted in 1891. He died at 

 Folkestone, June 22, 1896. 



Harris, SIR CHARLES ALEXAN- 

 DER (b. 1855). British adminis- 

 trator. Born at Wrexham, June 

 28, 1855, he 

 was educated 

 at Richmond 

 School, Yorks, 

 near where 

 his father was 

 a vicar, and 

 at Christ's 

 College, Cam- 

 bridge. He en- 

 tered the civil 

 British administrator service in 1879. 



Russell Jj e helped to 



conduct the British case on the 

 question of the boundary of Brazil, 

 1901^4, as he had previously done 

 in that of Venezuela. In 1917 he 

 was knighted, and was appointed 

 governor of Newfoundland. 



Harris, FRANK (b. 1856). British 

 journalist and author. Born of 

 Welsh parentage in Galway, he 

 emigrated to Canada when 15. 

 Returning to Europe, he studied in 

 Paris, Heidelberg, Gottingen, Ber- 

 lin, and Athens. In 1881 he began 

 to write for The Spectator, and in 

 1882 became editor of The Evening 

 News, which he left to edit The 

 Fortnightly Review, 1888-93. 



Proprietor and editor of The 

 Saturday Review, 1894-98, he after- 

 wards edited Vanity Fair. Shake- 

 spearean critic, playwright, and 

 author of some notably good short 

 stories, his works include Elder 

 Conklin, 1894; Montes the Mata- 

 dor, 1900 ; The Bomb, 1908 ; The 

 Man Shakespeare, 1909; The 

 Women of Shakespeare, 1911 ; 

 Oscar Wilde, his Life and Confes- 

 sions, 1916 ; and the play, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Daventry, 1900. 



