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Conference at The Hague, May 18, 

 1899. Harrison died at Indiana- 

 polis, March 13, 1901. He was the 

 author of This Country of Ours, 

 1897, an account of the administra- 

 tive organization of the U.S.A. 

 See Life, Lew Wallace, 1888 ; The 

 Presidents of the United States, ed. 

 J. G. Wilson, 1894. 



Harrison, FREDERic(1831-1923). 

 British author and publicist. Born 

 in London, Oct. 18, 1831, he was 

 educated a t 

 I King's C o 1 - 

 I lege, London, 

 i^fcifc <** % and Wadham 

 1 College, x - 

 I 4 I ford. He be- 



1 came a fellow 

 and tutor of 

 Wadham, but 

 soon settled 

 i n London. 



Called to the bar in 1858, he 

 was a member of the royal com- 

 mission on trade unions in 1867- 

 69, and from 1877-89 was professor 

 of jurisprudence at the Inns of 

 Court. He was one of the founders 

 of English Positivism (q.v.), and for 

 25 years president of the English 

 Positivist committee. 



Harrison wrote gracefully and 

 well, if not always profoundly, on 

 a variety of subjects, and when 

 well over eighty was contributing 

 to the reviews, dealing with cur- 

 rent questions with the freshness 

 and vigour of youth, qualities he 

 also showed when in 1915 he wrote 

 The German Peril, in which for 

 many years he had believed. Poli- 

 tics constantly attracted him, 

 although in practice he did not 

 get beyond serving the L.C.C. as 

 an alderman from 1889-93. He 

 wrote The Meaning of History, 

 1862, enlarged ed. 1894 ; and Lives 

 of Oliver Cromwell, 1888, and Wil- 

 liam the Silent, 1897 ; Byzantine 

 History in the Early Middle Ages, 

 1900 ; and Theophano, 1904. 



On literature he wrote The 

 Choice of Books, 1886 ; Victorian 

 Literature, 1895 ; A Life ot Ruskin, 

 1902 ; and numerous introduc- 

 tions to literary masterpieces. On 

 Positivism and ethical and reli- 

 gious matters generally he was 

 voluminous, his books ranging from 

 Comte's Positive Polity in 1875 to 

 The Positive Evolution of Religion 

 in 1912, with The Creed of a Lay- 

 man, 1907, between. In 1911 ap- 

 peared Autobiographic Memoirs. 

 He was a noted climber, and in 

 1908 published My Alpine Jubilee. 

 He died Jan. 14, 1923. His son 

 Austin was editor of The English 

 Review in 1910-23. 



joun tiarnson, 

 English clockmaker 



Harrison, JOHN (1693-1776). 

 English clockmaker. Born at Foul- 

 by, Yorkshire, the son of a car- 

 pen ter, he 

 taught himself 

 the elements 

 of mechanics, 

 and in 1715 

 made an 8- 

 day clock 

 with wooden 

 wheels, which 

 is still working 

 in the patent 

 museum at 



S. Kensington. After King 



In 1726 he introduced an impor- 

 tant improvement with his grid- 

 iron pendulum, in which parallel 

 rods of brass and steel contracting 

 and expanding in opposite direc- 

 tions compensated for differences 

 of temperature. In 1736 he pro- 

 duced a ship's chronometer more 

 accurate than any hitherto made. 

 In 1759 he made a pocket chrono- 

 meter of remarkable accuracy 

 which, fulfilling certain conditions 

 laid down by an Act of Parliament 

 of 1713, entitled Longitude Harri- 

 son, as he was called, to a reward 

 of 20,000, which was withheld, 

 however, by the board of longi- 

 tude. It was not until 1773 that 

 he received this money. He died 

 in London, March 24, 1776. 



Harrison, MARY ST. LEGER. 

 British novelist. The younger 

 daughter of Charles Kingsley, she 

 wrote a number of novels under the 

 pen name of Lucas Malet (f/.v.). 



Harrison, THOMAS (1606-60). 

 English puritan and regicide. He was 

 born at Newcastle- under- Lynae, 



Staffs, the son 



of a grazier 

 and butcher. 

 He became 

 clerk to a Lon- 

 don solicitor ; 

 in 1642 joined 

 the bodyguard 

 of the earl of 

 Essex, and dis- 



liiomas Harrison, tinguished 

 English Puritan himself at 



From an old print MarstOH Moor. 



He was in command of the force 

 that took King Charles from Hurst 

 Castle to London, was one of the 

 court that tried him, and signed the 

 death warrant. During Cromwell's 

 absence in Ireland Harrison was in 

 supreme military command in Eng- 

 land, 1650-51. 



He took part in the expulsion uf 

 the Long Parliament in 1653, in 

 which year came the division of the 

 Commonwealth party into the 

 Fifth Monarchy idealists under 

 Harrison and the more practical 

 men under Lambert. The latter 

 gained the upper hand, and Harri- 

 son lost his offices and commission, 



and twice suffered imprisonment 

 for his loyalty to his views. He 

 was one of the most consistent and 

 resolute of the Parliamentarians, 

 and though one of the seven regi- 

 cides excluded from the Act of in- 

 demnity, refused to flee the coun- 

 try at the Restoration or to ac- 

 knowledge Charles II. He was 

 taken, tried and executed on Oct. 

 13, 1660. See Thomas Harrison, 

 Regicide and Major-General, C. H 

 Simpkinson, 1905. 



Harrison, WILLIAM (1534-93). 

 English topographer. Born in 

 London, April 18, 1534, he was 

 educated at S. Paul's and Westmin- 

 ster schools, and 1556 graduated 

 at Oxford. He became rector of 

 Radwmter, Essex, in 1559. At 

 the suggestion of Reginald Wolfe, 

 printer to Elizabeth, he wrote 

 the Description of England, 1577, 

 a vividly actual and most valuable 

 account of the country in the time of 

 Elizabeth. Harrison was appointed 

 in 1586 dean of Windsor, where he 

 died in April, 1593. Much of his 

 work is in Shakespeare's England, 

 ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1877-78. 



Harrison, WILLIAM HENRY 

 (1773-1841). American statesman. 

 Born at Berkeley, Charles City 

 county, V i r - 



finia, Feb. 9, 

 773, he en- 

 tered the 

 army and 

 fought with 

 distinction 

 against the 

 N.W. Indians. 

 From 1801-13 



ritory, he was responsible for 

 several treaties with the Indians. 

 one of which, involving a large 

 cession of territory to America, in- 

 directly led to the war with Great 

 Britain in 1812. Harrison was 

 appointed to the command in the 

 north-west, and his defeat of a com- 

 bined force of British and Indians 

 on the Thames, Ontario, Oct. 5, 

 1813, and other successes gained 

 him a reputation during the war 

 second only to that of Andrew 

 Jackson. 



Member of Congress, 1816-19, 

 and senator, 1825-28, he was an 

 unsuccessful candidate for the 

 presidency in 1836, but was 

 elected in 1840 in what became 

 known as the " log-cabin and 

 hard cider " campaign, in allusion 

 to his once having lived in a log- 

 cabin and to his preferring cider 

 to beer. He died at Washington, 

 a month after his inauguration, 

 April 4, 1841. See Lives of the 

 Presidents, W. 0. Stoddard, 1888- 

 89 ; The Presidents of the United 

 States, ed. J. G. Wilson, 1894. 



