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HARRISON, Mary (dau. of Wm. Rossiter of Stockport, Lancs., hat maker). b. Liverpool 1788; taught painting in Liverpool and Chester about 1818–29; lived in London 1829 to death; an original member of New Society of Painters in water-colours 1831; exhibited 20 flower pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1833–63. (m. 1814 William Harrison, he was ruined and d. 1861). she d. Chesnut lodge, Hampstead 25 Nov. 1875. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists, i, 411–15 (1876).

HARRISON, Rev. Matthew (son of John Harrison of Appleby). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 10 Oct. 1810 aged 18, fellow 1815–33; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; R. of Church Oakley, Hants. 1832 to death; author of The rise, progress and present structure of the English language 1848, 2 ed. Philadelphia 1856. d. Church Oakley 1 Jany. 1862.

HARRISON, Robert. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. and M.B. 1824, M.D. 1837; L. and F.R.C.S. Ireland 1816; M. and F.R.C.S. Eng. 1815; professor of anatomy and physiology Trin. coll. 1844 to death; surgeon to Dr. Steevens’ hospital and medical college, Dublin; author of The Dublin Dissector 2 vols. Dublin 1827; The surgical anatomy of the arteries of the body 2 vols. Dublin 1824, 4 ed. 1839. d. 1 Hume st. Dublin 23 April 1858. Lancet, i, 135–9 (1827–8); Medical Directory 1859 p. 973.

HARRISON, Robert Alexander. b. Montreal 1833; called to Upper Canadian bar 1855, the first person called with honours; chief clerk of crown law department for Upper Canada 1854–59; Q.C. 1867; member of House of Commons 1867–72; chief justice of province of Ontario 8 Oct. 1875 to death; author of A digest of all the cases in the Queen’s Bench and Practice court for Upper Canada 1823–51, Toronto 1852; The statutes of practical utility 1857; The common law procedure act 1856, 1858; The municipal manual for Upper Canada 1859, 4 ed. 1879; The common law procedure act, Canada 1870. d. Nov. 1878. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 176–7.

HARRISON, Samuel (youngest son of Rev. William Harrison, wesleyan minister). b. Banwell, Somerset 1826; ed. Woodhouse grove 1834; apprentice to a printer, Sheffield; shorthand reporter to Sheffield Times to 1854; introduced type-high stereotype columns in newspapers; proprietor with Henry Pawson of Sheffield Times 1854–7, sole proprietor 1857, editor 1854–69; acquired the Sheffield Iris, the Sheffield Mercury and the Sheffield Argus, all of which were incorporated in the Times; author of The Last Judgment, a poem in twelve books 1857, new ed. 1862; A complete history of the great flood at Sheffield 1864. d. Oakvilla, Broombank, Sheffield 21 Feb. 1871. Sheffield Times 25 Feb. 1871 p. 8, 4 March p. 8.

HARRISON, Samuel Bealey (eld. son of John Harrison of Foxley Grove, Berkshire). b. Manchester 4 March 1802; special pleader; barrister M.T. 15 June 1832; settled at Bronte, co. Halton, Canada as a miller and farmer 1837; called to bar of Upper Canada, Michs. term 1839, Q.C. 4 Jany. 1845, bencher of the Law society; judge of county court of county of York; represented Kingston in 1st parliament of United Canada 1841–43 and Kent in 2nd parliament 1843–45; mem. of executive council of Canada 1841–43; mem. of board of works 1841–44. d. Toronto 23 July 1867.

HARRISON, Thomas. Educated for an architect; associated with Wm. Ruff in supplying racing intelligence to London and provincial papers; on staff of Bell’s Life in London to 1860; on staff of The Field 1860 to death. d. 8 Lodge road, St. John’s Wood, London 16 July 1882. The Field 22 July 1882 p. 134.

HARRISON, Thomas Elliott (son of William Harrison, ship builder, Sunderland). b. North End, Fulham, Middlesex 4 April 1808; pupil of William Chapman, C.E. to 1829; surveyed part of the line for London and Birmingham railway 1830 and Stanhope and Tyne railway 1832, and built the Victoria bridge over the Wear 170 feet high with arches of 160 feet span 1837–8; engineer with Robert Stephenson of high level bridge at Newcastle 1849; engineer in chief of York, Newcastle and Berwick line 1849 to death; designed and carried out the Jarrow docks at South Shields 1855–9, designed the Hartlepool docks; built York railway station 1877; M.I.C.E. 1834, pres. 1874. d. Newcastle 20 March 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xciv, 301–13 (1888), portrait.

HARRISON, Thomas Richard (son of James Harrison, printer). b. 3 May 1798; head of firm of Harrison & Sons, printers, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross, London; partner with J. W. Parker; printer to the Foreign office and printer of London Gazette. d. 53 Russell sq. London 29 April 1869.

HARRISON, William. b. Maryport, Cumberland, Oct. 1812; commander of merchant ships to 1842; connected with Cunard line of packets 1842–55 and crossed the Atlantic 180 times; app. commander of the Great Eastern Jany. 1856, conducted her from Deptford to Portland roads Sep. 1859; drowned off Southampton dock gates 21 Jany. 1860. I.L.N. 6 Nov. 1858, portrait, 4 Feb. 1860, portrait; Drawing Room portrait gallery (3 Ser. 1860), portrait.

HARRISON, William (only son of a coal merchant). b. Marylebone, London 15 June 1813; ed. at Royal Academy of Music 1836–7; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 2 May 1839 as Henrique in Rooke’s opera of Henrique or the Love Pilgrim; sang at Drury Lane 1843, the original Thaddeus in Balfe’s Bohemian girl 27 Nov. 1843; played at Princess’s 1849, at Haymarket 1851; toured through U.S. with Louisa Pyne 1854–57, they opened Lyceum theatre 21 Sep. 1857 and were lessees of Covent Garden 1858 to 19 March 1864, produced 10 new operas; sole manager of Her Majesty’s theatre 8 Nov. 1864 to 16 March 1865; made his last appearance as Fritz in Grand Duchess at Liverpool, May 1868; had a tenor voice of remarkable purity and sweetness; translated Masse’s operetta Les noces de Jeannette and produced it at Covent Garden as The marriage of Georgette in 1860. (m. 4 March 1839 Ellen dau. of Wm. Clifford, actor d. 156 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 5 Jany. 1889), he d. Gaisford st. Kentish town, London 9 Nov. 1868. Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 693 (1879); Era 15 Nov. 1868 p. 10; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 51–3 (1869).

Note.—He was the first to endeavour to establish English opera and in his undertakings lost £20,000. He produced more English operas than any of his successors have been able or willing to do.

HARRISON, Rev. William (son of James Harrison of London). b. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of St. Oswald, Chester 1827 to death; master of King’s sch. Chester; minor canon of Chester cath. 1839–73; author of Sermons 1859. d. St. Oswald 11 Feb. 1880 aged 83.

HARRISON, Rev. William (1 son of William Harrison, doctor, Bermondsey, Surrey). b. 1811; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., scholar 1829–32, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; R. of Birch, Essex 1848 to death; hon. canon of St. Albans 1877 to death; chaplain to Duchess of Cambridge 1879 to death; author of Sermons on the commandments 1841; The tongue of time or language of a church clock 1842, 3 ed. 1844; Consecrated thoughts 1843 and 15 other books. d. Birch rectory 1 July 1882.

HARRISON, William (son of Isaac Harrison, hat manufacturer). b. Salford, Lancs. 11 Dec. 1802; lived at the Cape of Good Hope; settled in the Isle of Man 1845; member of House of Keys, March 1856 to 1867; chief founder of Manx Soc. 1858, edited for it The Bibliotheca Monensis 1861 and 11 other volumes; contributed to Manchester Guardian. d. Rock Mount near Peel 22 Nov. 1884.

HARRISON, William Frederick (eld. son of Mary Harrison 1788–1875). b. Amiens, France March 1815; in New 3 per cent. office, Bank of England; painter, exhibited marine subjects. d. Goodwick, Pembrokeshire 3 Dec. 1880.

HARRISON, William George. b. 1827; proper sizar of St. John’s coll. Cam., 18 wrangler and B.A. 1850; known as Devil Harrison at Cambridge and by the bar; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1853, bencher 23 Nov. 1877; Q.C. 14 Feb. 1877; had a good many pupils; a commercial lawyer; author with G. A. Cape of The Joint stock companies’ act 1856. d. South lodge, Edgware 5 March 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 March.

HARRISON, William Henry. Edited The Humourist 1831; author of The Wreath of Beauty with other poems 1816; Montfort, a poem 1818; Tales of a Physician 1829, 2 series 1831; Christmas Tales 1840; The Fossil bride and other verses 1868. d. 19 Beaufort st. Chelsea 5 March 1878 aged 83.

HARRISON, William Waters (1 son of Rev. William Harrison of Chester). b. 1827; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1845–8; B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; esquire bedel of law 7 Nov. 1848; esquire bedel of law and divinity May 1857 to death, the last of the old triumvirate of esquire bedels, the office abolished by the Statute De Bedellis 22 May 1856. d. Sarah Acland home, Oxford 2 March 1891. G. V. Cox’s Recollections of Oxford, 2 ed. (1870) 253, 419–24.

HARROD, Henry. b. Aylsham, Norfolk 30 Sep. 1817; attorney at Norwich 1838–62, at Marlborough 1862–64; sec. Norfolk and Norwich Archæol. soc. 12 years; a professional antiquary in London 1864 to death; F.S.A. 16 March 1854; author of Gleanings among the castles and convents of Norfolk. Norwich 1857; Calendar of court rolls of borough of Colchester 1865, and other works on Colchester and King’s Lynn. d. 2 Rectory grove, Clapham, Surrey 24 Jany. 1871. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq., 2nd series, v, 141–43 (1871).

HARROWBY, Dudley Ryder, 2 Earl of. b. Army pay office, Whitehall, London 23 May 1798; known as lord Sandon 1809–47; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1848; M.P. Tiverton 1819–31, M.P. Liverpool 1831–47; sec. to the India board, Dec. 1830 to May 1831; ecclesiastical commissioner 1847–55; succeeded as 2 earl 26 Dec. 1847; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 31 March to 7 Dec. 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; lord keeper of privy seal 7 Dec. 1855 to Dec. 1857; K.G. 28 June 1859. d. Sandon house, Stone, Staffs. 19 Nov. 1882. Graphic xxvi, 605 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi, 560 (1882), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives (2 ser. 1846), portrait.

HART, Alban J. H. b. 1798; ed. at Stonyhurst 1817; master Sedgley park sch.; teacher in a university in U.S. America; resided in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott to which he presented his library; author of The mind and its creations. New York 1853; My own language, or elements of English grammar. Baltimore 1860; The hermit of the Alps, a poem in four Cantos, and other poems; Catholic psychology, or the philosophy of the human mind 1867. d. Worcester 13 April 1879 aged 81. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 152 (1887).

HART, Sir Andrew Searle (youngest son of Rev. George Vaughan Hart of Glenalla, Donegal). b. Limerick 14 March 1811; ed. at Trinity coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1839, LL.B. and LLD. 1840; fellow of his coll. 1835, senior fellow 1858, vice provost 1876; member of general synod of Irish ch.; prof. of Real and personal property, King’s inns, Dublin 4 June 1879; contributed to Camb. and Dublin Math. Journal, Proc. of Irish Acad. and Quart. journal of mathematics; knighted at Dublin castle by lord Carnarvon 25 Jany. 1886; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1844, 2 ed. 1847; An elementary treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics 1846, 2 ed. 1850. d. at house of his brother in law G. V. Hart, Kilderry, co. Donegal 13 April 1890.

HART, Charles. b. 19 May 1797; ed. at R. Acad. of music; organist of Essex st. chapel, Strand, London, of St. Dunstan’s, Stepney 1829–33, of Trinity ch. Mile End, and of St. George’s, Beckenham; composer of Anthems 1830; The Jubilate and Te Deum 1832 which gained the Gresham gold medal Dec. 1831; Omnipotence, a sacred oratorio, which he conducted on first performance at Hanover sq. rooms 2 April 1839; Sacred harmony, tunes from the most celebrated composers 1841. d. 148 Bond st. London 29 March 1859. Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 692 (1879).

HART, Rev. George Augustus Frederick. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of Arundel, Sussex 1844 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 Dec. 1848 to death. d. Arundel 7 April 1873.

HART, Sir Henry (son of Richard Hart of Uckfield, Sussex). b. Wilmington, Sussex 1781; entered navy March 1796, captain 1 Aug. 1811; sent on a mission to the Imaum of Muscat 1804; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1836; comr. of Greenwich hospital 14 Oct. 1845; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Royal hospital, Greenwich 23 Dec. 1856.

HART, Henry George (3 son of lieut. col. William Hart, d. Cape of Good Hope 1848). b. 7 Sep. 1808; ensign 49 foot 1 April 1829, major 15 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1854 when placed on h.p.; aided by his wife brought out the Quarterly Army list, Feb. 1839, was then allowed access to official records, and in 1840 published The New Annual Army list, the Quarterly and Annual lists have since regularly appeared; poor law inspector Ireland 1845–6; major depot battalion 21 April 1854 to 1 Dec. 1856 and in 1856 suppressed a mutiny of North Tipperary militia; major on half pay 1 Dec. 1856 to death; L.G. 4 Dec. 1877. d. Biarritz, France 24 March 1878.

HART, Henry Wyatt (eld. son of Rev. Cornelius Hart, V. of Old St. Pancras, London). b. 1850; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1873; barrister I.T. 25 April 1877; author of Bankruptcy law and practice 1880, 3 ed. 1887; with Ernest Eiloart Interrogatories. Rules relating to the law of discovery and inspection 1879. d. Aden, on his way home from Queensland 20 June 1886.

HART, John. b. 1809; engaged in whaling and had a whaling establishment at Encounter bay, N.S.W. Australia; had flour mills at Port Adelaide, S. Australia 1846, Hart’s flour commanding the highest price in the market; M.L.C. South Australia 1857, treasurer 21 Aug. to 1 Sep. 1857, 30 Sep. 1857 to 12 June 1858 and 15 July 1864 to 22 March 1865, chief secretary 4–15 July 1863, 23 Oct. 1865 to 27 March 1866 and 24 Sep. to 12 Oct. 1868, treasurer and premier 30 May 1870 to 10 Nov. 1871; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; while presiding at meeting of Mercantile marine insurance co. in Adelaide he essayed to speak and fell dead 28 Jany. 1873. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 87, 153–5.

HART, Solomon Alexander (son of Samuel Hart, gold and silver worker, mezzotint engraver and teacher of Hebrew). b. Plymouth, April 1806; student R. Acad. London, Aug. 1823; exhibited 121 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 34 at Suffolk st. 1826–80; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840, professor of painting 1854–63, librarian of the institution 1865 to death; curator of painted hall, Greenwich; elected member of Athenæum 1845; some of his pictures were The elevation of the Law 1830 in Vernon gallery; Lady Jane Grey at the place of her execution 1839 in Plymouth guildhall; Milton visiting Galileo in prison 1847. d. 36 Fitzroy sq. London 11 June 1881. A. Brodie’s Reminiscences of S. A. Hart (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxviii, 621 (1881), portrait; G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 55–58.

HART, Rev. William Henry (only son of Wm. Hart of Dorking, surgeon). b. Dorking 6 Jany. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1839–49; Andrew’s exh. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1849; Blount sch. of Trinity coll. 1850; demy of Magdalen coll. 1850–61; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; assist. C. of Hawkhurst, Kent 1855 to 1860; resident chaplain to Soc. of Gray’s Inn, Oct. 1860 to death. d. 5 Oct. 1861. bur. Brighton parochial cemetery. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magd. coll., vii, 384–9 (1881).

HARTING, James Vincent (1 son of James Harting of Hampstead, solicitor). b. 1812; ed. at Downside coll. near Bath, and at London Univ. 1828–30; solicitor 24 Lincoln’s inn fields 1836 to death; chiefly engaged in connection with Roman Catholic business, solicitor to Cardinal Newman, defended him in the Achilli case 31 Jany. 1852; gave evidence before parliamentary commission on convents 1871; F.S.A. 2 June 1864; author of The holy hour 1851. d. 2 Upper Montague st. Russell sq. London 30 Aug. 1883. The Tablet lxii, 382 (1883); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 157–60 (1887).

HARTLAND, Frederick Augustus. b. 25 Dec. 1783; one of the best pantomimists, associated with Grimaldi at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1802; struck on the head by a plank from a scaffold in Mount st. Westminster road, London 16 Aug. 1852, died on his way to St. Thomas’ hospital, bur. St. Mary Newington ch. yard. Era 22 Aug. 1852 p. 12.

HARTLEY, Humphrey Robert. b. 24 Aug. 1794; ensign 57 foot 8 Oct. 1812, lieut. col. 12 April 1831 to 4 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; introduced the first savings’ bank in the British army at Madras 6 Nov. 1832, and libraries for noncommissioned officers. d. 27 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Aug. 1854.

HARTLEY, James. Large shipowner at Dublin; director of some of principal steam companies in the United Kingdom; found dead in his cabin on board the ‘Nubia’ between Ceylon and Suez 11 April 1857.

HARTLEY, James (son of John Hartley of Harborne, Staffs., d. 1830). b. Dumbarton 1810; partner in Chance, Hartley & Co. glass makers, Smethwick; first to use sulphate of soda in crown glass; used a thimble instead of an iron bar in blowing glass; the first in England to make German sheet-glass; removed to Sunderland and erected glasshouses 1833; invented Hartley’s patent rolled plate 1847 used in Great Exhibition building 1851, made from it a fortune; mayor of Sunderland 1851–3; M.P. Sunderland 1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. Ashbrooke hall, Sunderland 24 May 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv, 409–12 (1887).

HARTLEY, Jesse (son of a bridge master in N.R. Yorkshire). b. near Pontefract 1780; apprentice to a mason; surveyor of the Liverpool docks 1824 to death, constructed or altered every dock there 1824–60; completed the Grosvenor bridge over the river Dee at Chester, which had the largest single span stone arch (200 feet) in existence at the time 1832. d. Bootle Marsh near Liverpool 24 Aug. 1860. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 219–22 (1872).

Note.—His son John Bernard Hartley who was b. 3 Sep. 1814 and d. 14 Dec. 1869, was joint surveyor of Liverpool docks with his father from July 1847.

HARTLEY, Leonard Lawrie (only child of Archibald Campbell, surgeon, d. Bedale, Yorkshire 1837 by Mary dau. of Leonard Hartley). b. 1816; assumed the name of Hartley by r.l. on 15 July 1841 after death of his uncle George Hartley of Middleton Tyas, Yorks.; collected a library of 60,000 volumes chiefly on topography, books sold for £9636 14s. 6d. June 1885. d. 138 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 27 Dec. 1883, his heir at law advertised for 7 Feb. 1884. Times 7 Feb. 1884 p. 1.

HARTMAN, Sir Julius. b. 6 May 1774; captain artillery King’s German Legion 9 Nov. 1803, major 12 April 1806 to 24 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; re-entered Hanoverian service 1816, L.G. 1836; hon. K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; cr. a baron of Kingdom of Hanover by George V. King of Hanover 1855 or 1856, only baron he created. d. Hanover 7 June 1856. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x, 688–91 (1879).

HARTNOLL, John Hooper. b. 1799 or 1800; mathematical master Greenwich hospital sch., retired on a pension; started The Kentish Mercury 1832, proprietor and editor to his decease; proprietor and editor of Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor 1839 and Post Magazine Almanac and Insurance Directory 1854; author of The annual balance sheets of all the insurance companies, with a letter on the Joint Stock Companies’ registration act 1853, 2 ed. 1853. d. Bexley house, Greenwich 6 June 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 174 (1870); Kentish Mercury 11 June 1870 p. 4.

HARTOG, Numa Edward (1 son of Alphonse Hartog, professor of French). b. London 20 May 1846; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; B.A. and B.Sc. London 1864; foundation scholar of Trin. coll. Cam. 1866, senior wrangler 1869 the first Jew who won that distinction; admitted B.A. without taking usual oath 29 Jany. 1869; second Smith prizeman 1869, religious tests prevented him becoming fellow of his college; gave evidence before house of lords on religious tests 3 March 1871. d. of small pox Belsize sq. Hampstead, London 19 June 1871. Times 21, 22, 23 June 1871; Jewish Chronicle 23 June 1871.

HARTRIDGE, William. Chairman of Bombay and Baroda railway co.; a common councilman for Broad St. ward, London to 1880; master of the Salter’s Co. d. Addelam, Upper Deal, Kent 25 Jany. 1885 aged 76.

HARTSHORNE, Rev. Charles Henry (only son of John Hartshorne of Liverpool, ironmaster). b. Broseley, Shropshire 17 March 1802; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., pensioner 4 Jany. 1821; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Benthall, Salop 1825–8; C. of Little Wenlock, Salop 1828–36; C. of Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire 1838–50, and R. of Holdenby 2 Nov. 1850 to death; a founder of British Archæol. Assoc. and Institute 1844 and a contributor to the journal; F.S.A.; author of Ancient metrical Tales 1829; Salopia Antiqua 1841; Historical Memoirs of Northampton 1848 and 20 other books. d. Holdenby rectory 11 March 1865. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxii, 322–5 (1866).

HARTT, Charles Frederic (son of James William Hartt). b. Fredericton, New-Brunswick 23 Aug. 1840; ed. at Acacia coll. to 1860; went to St. John’s 1860; geologist in the Thayer expedition to Brazil 1865, again in Brazil 1867, 1870, 1871, 1874, 1878; founded geological museum at Rio Janiero; student of Indian languages and folk lore; professor of natural history Vassar college 1868; professor of geology Cornell univ. 1868 to death; author of Thayer expedition. Scientific results of a journal to Brazil. Boston 1870; Amazonian tortoise myths. Rio 1875. d. of yellow fever, Rio Janiero 19 March 1878. Nature 13 June 1878 pp. 174–5; Popular Science Monthly. New York, June 1878 pp. 231–5, portrait.

HARTY, William. b. 1781; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1801, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1830; F.K.Q.C. of P. 1824–27, censor 1826; physician to Dublin prisons 40 years; physician to King’s hospital or Blue coat sch. Dublin 40 years; author of Dysentery and its combinations 1805; An historic sketch of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland 1817–19. Dublin 1820; Failure of the Reformation in Ireland. By a Protestant Layman. Dublin 1837. d. Ballickmoyle, Queen’s county 30 March 1854.

HARVEY, Alexander. b. 1811; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1832, M.D. Edin. 1835; professor of materia medica Aberdeen univ.; consulting physician Aberdeen royal infirmary; author of On the foetus in utero 1849, 2 ed. 1886; On a remarkable effect of cross breeding 1851; Trees and their nature, or the bud and its attributes 1856; Man’s place unique in nature. By a University Professor 1865; with A. D. Davidson Syllabus of materia medica. Aberdeen 1873, 8 ed. 1887. d. 16 Hanover ter. Ladbroke sq. London 25 April 1889.