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HARRISON.  at Somerset House until the summer of 1808, by which period he had been further employed for two years, chiefly as Master’s Mate, and on various stations, in the 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, and  120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton. From the latter date, until officially promoted, 18 April, 1811, we find him successively officiating as Acting-Lieutenant, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, of the 50, armée en flûte, Capts. Geo. Skinner and John Pasco,, Capts. John Houstoun and Edw. Flinn, 18, Capt. Thos. Huskisson, 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, and receiving-ship, Capt. Nicholas Pateshall. He was afterwards re-appointed to the, but, being obliged to invalid in Feb. 1812 from a severe affection of the eyes, was next employed, from 13 of the following Oct. until 4 Oct. 1814, in the , prison-ship at Portsmouth, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Burdwood, and, Impress service-ship, on the river Thames, Capt. Thos. Richbell. His appointments have since been – 3 Sept. 1825, to the command of the Revenue-vessel – 15 July, 1829, to be Agent for Transports Afloat, the duties of which office he continued to fill, with the exception of a few months in 1830, until 1834 – and 21 May, 1842, again to the Transport service, in which he is still employed. – Pettet and Newton.

 HARRISON. 

entered the Navy 21 July, 1816; passed his examination in 1824; and obtained his commission 6 Jan. 1834. He has since been on half-pay. Lieut. Harrison, the Senior of his rank on the List of 1834, is a Magistrate at Van Dieman’s Land. – J. Hinxman.

 HARRISON. 

entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1804, as L.M., on board the 64, Capt. Thos. Bayley, stationed in the Downs. He became Midshipman, in June, 1805, of the 74, Capt. Geo. Dundas, and in Sept. 1807, after an intermediate servitude in the North Sea and West Indies, he was Appointed Master’s Mate of the 38, Capts. Robt. Howe Bromley and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, under whom he cruized on the American and Spanish coasts until Feb. 1809. Joining, then, the 74, Capts. John Bligh, Thos. Geo. Shortland, and Robt. Dudley Oliver, he witnessed the ensuing attack on the French shipping in Basque Roads, and was present, in the course of the same year, at the siege of Flushing. The being ultimately ordered to North America, Mr. Harrison there removed, in Aug. 1813, to the  74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren. He obtained his commission 27 June, 1814, four years after he had passed his examination, and was subsequently, from 1817 until 1827, employed in command of different Telegraph stations on the Chatham and Portsmouth lines. He has not since held any official occupation.

 HARRISON. 

, born 19 Nov. 1810, is son of the Rev. Wm. Harrison, Vicar of Fareham, and Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 March, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, commanded on the Home station by Capt. Edw. Brace, with whom he was afterwards employed for some time in the West Indies as Midshipman of the 84. While next attached, from Nov. 1824 until Jan. 1827, to the 42, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, we find him serving in the East Indies and participating in many of the operations connected with the Burmese war. He then for a few months joined the 52, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, on the same station; where, until the close of 1829, he further served in the 28, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, and again in the Java, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll. In Feb. 1830, immediately on passing his examination, Mr. Harrison was appointed Mate of the 104, flag-ship at Plymouth of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford. He was next transferred in succession to the 120, and  84, bearing each the flag of Sir Thos. Foley, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth; and for several months of 1831 he cruized in the Channel on board the 3, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Harris Butterfield. During the four following years he appears to have been again employed in the East Indies, for twelve months of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore. Being at length promoted (from the 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Philip Durham) to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 3 April, 1837, he was appointed, on 10 of that month, to the  18, Capt. Patrick John Blake, and again ordered to the East Indies. He afterwards took part in the hostilities on the coast of China, where, in command of the ’s pinnace, he contributed, with much credit to himself, to the capture, 7 Jan. 1841, of the enemy’s forts at Chuenpee, and the destruction of 11 powerful junks, forming the flower of the Celestial Navy – a service for which he was recommended to the notice of the Admiralty. Mr. Harrison’s next and last appointment was, 16 Oct. 1841, to the First-Lieutenancy of the 26, Capt. Augustus Leopold Kuper, in which vessel he shared in the operations of 1842 up the Yang-tse-Kiang. His advancement to the rank he now holds took place on 23 Dec. in the latter year. It was made the reward of his services in China.

Commander Harrison married, first, in 1836, Jane, daughter of the late W. Hindmarch, Esq., of Bishopwearmouth; and, secondly, 19 July, 1843, a daughter of the late J. Pooke, Esq., of Fareham. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 HARRISON. 

is son of the late Lieut. Harrison, R.N., who died Agent for Transports at Plymouth in 1808.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 July, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Harrison, of which vessel, successively stationed in the Channel and Mediterranean, he became Midshipman 1 Jan. 1800. During several months of the short-lived peace we find him again employed in the Channel on board the, Capt. John Philips. He afterwards, in March, 1803, joined the frigate, Capts. Micajah Malbon and John Wentworth Loring, with whom he served on the Newfoundland station until transferred, in Jan. 1805, to the 42, Capt. Lord Cochrane. Proceeding subsequently to the West Indies in the sloop, Capt. John Parkinson, he was there, after a short attachment to the  74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, appointed Sub-Lieutenant, 11 Sept. 1806, of the gun-brig. Attaining the full rank of Lieutenant 10 May, 1807, he afterwards joined, in that capacity – 11 May, 1808, the brig, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy, John Bowker, Thos. Tudor Tucker, Alex. Nesbitt, Thos. Barclay, and Jas. Pattison Stewart, also in the West Indies – 16 Nov. 1809, the 74, Capts. Sir Rich. King, Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, during an attachment of nearly six years to which ship, besides commanding a Spanish gun-vessel at the defence of Cadiz, he served off Toulon, on the coast of Sicily, in the Adriatic, off Cherbourg, and on the South American station – and, 22 Sept. 1815, and 23 Oct. 1817, to the and  frigates, respectively employed off the coast of Africa and at Portsmouth, and both commanded by Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. On the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander 14 Sept. 1818, Capt. Harrison was invested, pro tem., with the charge of the 28. He afterwards obtained command, 6 May, 1829, of the sloop, fitting for the coast of Africa,