13 Facts About Frederic Harrison

Frederic Harrison was a British jurist and historian.

Frederic Harrison was baptised at St Pancras Church, Euston, and spent his early childhood at the northern London suburb of Muswell Hill, to which the family moved soon after his birth.

Frederic Harrison received a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford in 1849.

Frederic Harrison found himself in conflict with Congreve as to details, and eventually led the Positivists who split off and founded Newton Hall in 1881, and he was president of the English Positivist Committee from 1880 to 1905; he was editor and part author of the Positivist New Calendar of great Men, and wrote much on Auguste Comte and Positivism.

Frederic Harrison received a second class in Moderations in 1852 and a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1853.

Frederic Harrison became part of a liberal group of academics at Oxford that included Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Goldwin Smith, Mark Pattison and Benjamin Jowett.

Frederic Harrison was called to the bar in 1858, and, in addition to his practice in equity cases, soon began to distinguish himself as an effective contributor to the higher-class reviews.

Frederic Harrison was professor of jurisprudence to the Inns of Court, and an Honorary fellow of Wadham College.

Frederic Harrison's Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place, Guildford, first published in London in 1893 as a quarto work, re-issued in a small abridged form in 1899, is a valuable and detailed study of the Weston family and the architecturally important manor house Sutton Place built by Sir Richard Weston c 1525.

Frederic Harrison's father had been the lessee since 1874 and the author had many years of access in which to perform his detailed investigations and researches.

Frederic Harrison gave the Sir Robert Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1900.

Frederic Harrison was a supporter of Polish and Italian independence, the Union in the American civil war, the reformers in the Jamaica Committee of 1866, the Paris Commune and was a vice president of the Reform League.

George Gissing, the novelist, was at one time their tutor; and in 1905 Frederic Harrison wrote a preface to Gissing's Veranilda.