William Harrison (1802–1884) was an English antiquary. He helped establish the
Manx Society
The Manx Society for the Publication of National Documents, or simply the Manx Society, was a text publication society founded in February 1858 with the objective of publishing reprints of historical documents relating to the Isle of Man, its peopl ...
in 1858; and wrote for that society a number of antiquarian works relating to the Isle of Man, beginning with ''Bibliotheca Monensis'' in 1861.
Life
William Harrison, son of Isaac Harrison, hat manufacturer and merchant, was born at
Salford
Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...
, Lancashire, on 11 December 1802. Early in life he sought his fortune at the
Cape of Good Hope. Returning to England he settled down about 1845 on a small estate of his own in the
Isle of Man
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, where he became a member of the
House of Keys
The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council.
History
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, and afterwards a justice of the peace. Through his exertions the
Manx Society
The Manx Society for the Publication of National Documents, or simply the Manx Society, was a text publication society founded in February 1858 with the objective of publishing reprints of historical documents relating to the Isle of Man, its peopl ...
was formed in 1858 for the publication of documents relating to the Isle of Man. He married Mary Sefton Beck in 1832, and died at Rockmount, near
Peel, Isle of Man, on 22 November 1884.
[Sutton 1891, pp. 49–50.]
Works
He contributed fourteen volumes to the works of the Manx Society, including:
*
The Bibliotheca Monensis, a Bibliographical Account of Works relating to the Isle of Man', 1861, 2nd edition 1876;
* ''Manx Proverbs and Sayings, Ballads'', &c. 1868;
* ''Account of the Diocese of Sodor and Man'', 1879;
* ''Manx Miscellanies'', 1880.
He was an occasional writer on antiquarian matters in the ''
Manchester Guardian'' and other papers.
References
Sources
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Attribution:
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Further reading
* Coakley, Frances, ed. (2001)
"William Harrison 1802-1884" A Manx Note Book. ''isle-of-man.com''. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
* "William Harrison: Scholar and Antiquary". ''The Journal of the Manx Museum'', 4(57). December 1938. pp. 83–84.
''imuseum.im''. 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
* ''Manchester Guardian'', 27 November 1884.
* ''Manx Sun'', 20 December 1884. p. 13.
* ''Isle of Man Examiner'', 15 September 1939. p. 9.
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1802 births
1884 deaths
19th-century English non-fiction writers
19th-century antiquarians
English antiquarians