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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = George
| name = Harris
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = LLD, FSA, FRHS
| image = File:Harris,_George.jpg
| birth_date = 1809
| death_date = 1890
| address = Cornbrook Park, Hulme, Manchester [1864]<br />Iselipps-manor, Northolt, Southall [1879]
| occupation = legal
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1864.05.03
| elected_AI = 1864
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS = 1873.11.02
| membership = ASL, LAS, AI ordinary fellow<br />ASL Foundation Fellow
| left = 1890.11.25 dead
| clubs =
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Royal Historical Society<br />Genealogical and Historical Society of Great Britain<br />Pscyhological Society<br />Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain<br />Manchester Anthropological Society<br />Anthropological Institute of New York
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
Manchester Branch President 1867<br /><br />ASL Council 1867 Member<br />ASL Council 1868 Member<br />ASL Council 1869 Member<br />ASL Council 1870 Member<br />ASL Council 1871 Vice President<br /><br />LAS Council 1874 Member<br />LAS Council 1875 Member<br /><br />AI Council 1871 Vice President<br />AI Council 1872 Vice President<br />AI Council 1874 Member<br />AI Council 1875 Vice President<br />AI Council 1876 Vice President
=== House Notes ===
Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester<br />A5 281 George Harris, Cornbrook Park, Hulme, Manchester, to CCB, 4 June 1866 – on the establishment of a Manchester anthropological society; wishes to read paper to Council; hopes to meet the President of the Cheetham Literary, Philosophical and Statistical Society; hopes CCB will come to dine also; invites him to stay<br />282 Ibid., 8 June – hopes to arrange dinner when CCB is free to come; and to spend a few days with him; expects to establish an influential and important society despite prejudices; disappointed at Council’s rejection of his paper; hopes it will reconsider<br />1871.02.14 Finance Committee <br />Foreign Member of the Anthropological Institute of New York<br />Obit in file<br />1890.11.25 The death of G. Harris Esq. was announced
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Harris, George, LL.D., F.SA., vice-president of the Anthropological Institute, the originator of the Historical Manuscript Commission, joint registrar of the court of bankruptcy Manchester 1862-8, acting judge Birmingham county court 1860-2, went the Midland circuit, ..., educated at Rugby and Trin. Coll. Camb., a student of the Middle Temple 4 Dec 1839, called to the bar 13 Jan 1843 (eldest son of George Harris Esq., of Rugby); born 6 May 1809. Iselipps Manor, Northolt, Southall, Middlesex<br />George Harris (1809–1890) was an English barrister and judge, known as a biographer and legal writer.<br />In 1876 Harris joined Edward William Cox in founding the Psychological Society, a group interested in psychical research, of which he became a vice-president<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
wrote autobriography<br />Civilization considered as a science, &c., &c<br /><br />author of The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwick, The true theory of representation in a state, etc. and of Principia prima legum<br /><br />The True Theory of Representation in a State, London, 1852 ; 2nd edit. 1857. Civilization considered as a Science, in relation to its Essence, its Elements, and its End, London, 1861; 2nd ed. 1872. Principia Prima Legum; or, an Examination and Analysis of the Elementary Principles of Law, London, 1865 (only part i. published). The Theory of the Arts; or, Art in relation to Nature, Civilization, and Man, London, 1869, 2 vols. Supernatural Phenomena: Tests adapted to determine the Truth of Supernatural Phenomena, London, 1874.<br />
=== House Publications ===
LAS<br />tests adapted to determine the truth of supernatural phenomena<br /><br />the comparative longevity of animals of different species, and of man ... 18 Mar 1872 JAI ii<br />the concurrent contemporaneous progress of renovation and waste in animal frames ... 18 Mar 1873 JAI iii<br />on the distinctions, mental and moral occasioned by the difference of sex 1 June 1869<br />hereditary genius. review<br />on the hereditary transmission of endowments and qualities of different kinds. 5 Feb 1872<br />insanity 20 May 1872<br />the plurality of races AR v
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