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HARRIS. During the closing portion of that period Mr. Harriott bore a warm part in the different Potomac operations connected with Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon’s brilliant expedition against Alexandria, in the course of which the particularly signalised herself and incurred a loss of 17 men killed and wounded. He was afterwards employed for nearly 12 months, latterly on, the coast of France, in the 36, Capts. Chas. Napier and Thos. Huskisson. He then took up a commission bearing date 28 Feb. 1815, and has since been, on half-pay.

Lieut. Harriott is married and has issue three children.

 HARRIS, M.P.

, born 20 May, 1808, in London, is second son of Jas. Edw., second Earl of Malmesbury, by Harriet Susan, daughter of Fras. Bateman Dashwood, Esq., of Well Vale, co. Lincoln. He is brother and heir-presumptive to the present Earl of Malmesbury; and brother of the Hon, and Rev. Chas. Amyand Harris, Prebendary of Salisbury.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1821; and embarked, in March, 1823; as Midshipman, on board the 50, Capt. Gordon Thos. , fitting for the flag of Sir Geo. Eyre, Commander-in-Chief in South America; where, until 1827, he further served with the Admiral in the 76, and with Capts. John Macpherson Ferguson and Henry Prescott in the 26, and  46. In the course of the latter year, in the June of which he passed a distinguished examination, Mr. Harris cruised experimentally in the 42 and  46, Capts. Geo. Rose Sartorius .and Sir Chas. Sullivan. He then rejoined the, commanded at the time by Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, and, after attending an expedition against the pirates of Grabusa in the Grecian Archipelago, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Feb. 1828, Between that period and the attainment of the next step in his profession 21 Nov. 1833, Mr. Harris was successively employed, on the Mediterranean, Home, and Lisbon stations, in the 80; as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. Codrington, in the 84; for some time as First-Lieutenant in the  18, Capts. Wm. Alex. Baillie Hamilton and Geo. Hutchison; and in the 46, Capt. Nich. Lockyer. His last appointment was to the command, 29 April, 1839, of the 18, in which sloop he served in North America and the West Indies until March, 1841. He was advanced to the rank he now, holds on 23 Nov. in the latter year.

Capt. Harris has been in Parliament,, since 1844; as member for Christchurch. He married, 4 Aug. 1841, Emma Wylly, youngest daughter of the late Capt. Sam. Chambers, R.N., by whom he has issue two sons.

 HARRIS. 

is half-brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1805, as Fst-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Elias Harvey and Sir Chas. Hamilton, in which ship he fought in the ensuing battle of Trafalgar, and (with an exception of 15 months in 1896-7) was afterwards employed, under the flags of Rear- Admirals Manley Dixon and Fras. Pickmore, on the Baltic and Mediterranean stations, and at the defence of Cadiz, until Feb. 1811 – two years and four months of the time as Midshipman. He then joined the 100, Capt. Joseph Spear, and on removing to the  36, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, assisted at the capture, 31 March, 1811, of the French 80-ton store-ship Dromadaire. On 1 of the following May he was further present in the same frigate, and in company with the 38, and  18, at the destruction of two vessels of the like description, the Giraffe and Nourrice, each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and both protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello-tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops; and on 29 Nov. he contributed to the capture, after a severe running-fight of four hours, of the 26-gun store-ship La Persanne, supposed, until the moment of her surrender, to be a frigate. Mr. Harris, who subsequently participated in many boat affairs in the Adriatic, and witnessed the Unité’s capture of three Turkish ships, was transferred, in Oct. 1814, to the 24, Capt. John Wm. Andrew, on the Leith station, and advanced, 1 March, 1815, to the rank of Lieutenant. With one slight interval, he has been continuously employed in the Coast Blockade and Coast Guard since March, 1826.

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entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1799; as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 20, Capt. Jas. Bradley, with whom, after serving for some time in the North Sea, he removed to the frigate, and proceeded to the West Indies, where he continued to serve under Capts. Edw. Durnford King and Chas. Fielding, latterly as Midshipman, until Oct. 1802. In March, 1803, a few days after he had been appointed Midshipman of the 24, armée en flûte, Capt. Alex. Becher, he had the misfortune to be wrecked off the island of Jersey; owing to which event he next joined the 98, flag-ship off Brest of the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, commanded subsequently by Capt, John Child Purvis, and also by Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, whom we find him accompanying into the 98. Proceeding in 1805 to the East Indies on board the 32, Capt. Chas. Elphinstone, Mr: Harris, in July of the following year, assisted at the destruction of a Dutch armed brig under the fort of Manado, as also of a similar vessel off the island of Tidore and on 28 of the same month he participated in a sharp action which terminated in- the surrender, to the and  sloop, of the  frigate and two armed and richly-laden Indiamen. On 10 Jan. 1807, having been for the last four months Master’s-Mate of the 74, flagship of Sir Thos. Troubridge, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the brig, Capt. Justice Finley; which vessel, on 5 of the ensuing month, was in company with the  and  frigate in the hurricane which, it is supposed, proved so fatal to those ships. Prior to his official promotion, which took place 16 Aug. 1808, Mr. Harris appears to have been further employed, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the, Capt. John Temple, and 74, Capt. John M‘Kerlie. His succeeding appointments were – 12 Sept. 1808, to the 38, Capt. Robt. Mends, in the Channel – 11 Jan. 1809 and 2 June, 1810, to the 38, and  40, commanded on the Irish station by Capts. Edw. Brace, Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, and Sir Wm. Bolton – and, 2 Feb. 1813, to the 36, Capt. Edw. Chetham, employed in the Baltic. He went on half-pay 18 Feb. 1814; and accepted his present rank 6 iov. 1845. – Messrs. Stilwell-.

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entered the Navy, 1 Jan, 1800, as A.B., on board the, commanded on the Jersey station by Capt. Philip d’Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon In the following year he became Midshipman of the gun-brig, Lieut--Commanders Bevan, Kortwright, Smith, and Morris; from which vessel, successively employed off the coasts of Wales and Bermuda he removed, in 1805, to the , Lieut.-Commander Duncan McDonald, and sailed for Jamaica; where, towards the close of the same year; he joined the  64, Capt. Andrew Fitzherbert Evans, flag-ship subsequently of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 5 June, 1808, and was next appointed – on 12 of the same month, to the frigate, Capt. John Fyffe – 11 July, 1809, as First, 