Charles (1) Harrison
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10 Lancaster Gate Hyde Park [1869] 17 Queen's Gate Place, South Kensington, S.W. [1883] 29 Lennox Gardens, SW [1888] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | legal | ||||||||||
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Office Notes
AI Council 1875 Member
AI Council 1876 Member
AI Council 1877 Member
AI Council 1878 Member
House Notes
number given to distinguish from another with same name
Brabrook's presidential address 1898: Mr. Charles Harrison, M.P., whose sudden illness and death after attending the funeral of Sir Frank Lockwood are so much to be regretted, joined our ranks in 1869. The interest he took in our pursuits was especially marked by his having published, at his own expense, a fine selection of photographs of ethnographical objects from the collections in the British Museum, some of which he occasionally exhibited before us.
Notes From Elsewhere
Harrison, Frederic (1831–1923), positivist and author, was born at 17 Euston Square, London, on 18 October 1831, the son of Frederick Harrison (1799–1881), a stockbroker whose father was a prosperous builder from Leicestershire, and his wife, Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant. He was baptized in the new St Pancras Church, Euston, and shortly afterwards the family settled in suburban Muswell Hill. His parents undertook his early education and that of his four brothers, born at two-year intervals: Lawrence and Robert Hichens Camden, who would enter their father's firm; and Charles Harrison and William Sidney, later partners in a firm of solicitors. In 1840 the family moved to 22 Oxford Square, Hyde Park, a house designed by Harrison's father. On the advice of Richard Bethell (Lord Westbury), a family friend, Harrison entered Joseph King's day school in St John's Wood. He did so well that when he went on to King's College School, Strand, in 1843, again on Bethell's recommendation, he was placed with boys older than himself.........
During the last twenty years of the century Harrison was a familiar figure at the Athenaeum and in Liberal circles. A home-ruler, he stood unsuccessfully as a Gladstonian Liberal for London University in the general election of 1886. Local politics proved more congenial. The first London county council elected him alderman in 1889, and as a member of its Progressive Party, led by his brother Charles, he served for five years on important committees, one of which produced early plans for Kingsway
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