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 agent of Shah Shuja : and agent of the former : made Governor of Jasrata, Nurpur and Gujarat till 1835 : sent on a mission to Dost Muhammad : won over Sultan Muhammad Khan, the Afghan Governor of Peshawar, and gained it for Ranjit : entered Dost Muhammad's service : sent on expedition against Kunduz : deputed by Dost- Muhammad in 1839 to negotiate with Sir A. Burnes (q.v.) : returned to India and America, and was heard of no more.

HARNESS, SIR HENRY DRURY (1804–1883)

Son of John Harness, M.D. : born 1804 : entered the Royal Engineers, 1827 : Colonel, 1862 : in the mutiny as Lt-Colonel R.E. : in the operations at Cawnpur, against the Gwalior contingent : at the siege and capture of Lucknow : in Rohilkund : in Oudh : C.B. : K.C.B., 1873 : Colonel Commandant R.E. and Colonel in the Army : retired as Maj-General, 1877 : died Feb. 10, 1883.

HARPER ( ? - ? )

Captain : in the E.I. Co.'s service prominent in the Oudh charges against Hastings : Resident at the Court of the Nawab of Oudh : sent by Sir Robert Barker to negotiate with the Rohillas in 1772 : recalled from the Nawab's Court, 1773.

HARRIS, GEORGE, FIRST BARON, OF SERINGAPATAM AND MYSORE (1746–1829) Son of the Rev. George Harris : born March 18, 1746 : educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich : Cadet in the Royal Artillery, 1759 : was with the 5th Foot in America : engaged at Bunker's Hill in 1775, severely wounded : served in the W. Indies : went out to India with General Sir William Medows (q.v.), as A.D.C. and Private Secretary, while the latter was Governor and C. in C. at Bombay (1788–90), and at Madras (1790–2) : in the campaigns of 1790–1, against Tippoo, and in the attack on Seringapatam, 1792 : saved £40,000 for Medows : commanded at Fort William, Calcutta, in 1794 : Maj-General : comnianded at Madras, 1796–1800, with a spat in Council, and acting Governor from Feb. to Aug. 1798 : in 1799 commanded 50,000 men against Tippoo : routed him at Malavilli on March 27, and took Seringapatam on May 4, 1799 : Mysore was annexed : retired to England, 1800 : Lt-General, 1801 : General, 1812 : made a Peer, 1815 : G.C.B., 1820 : Governor of Dumbarton Castle : died May 19, 1829.

HARRIS, GEORGE FRANCIS ROBERT, THIRD BARON (1810–1872)

Governor: son of General William George, the second Baron, and grandson of the first Baron Harris (q.v.) : born Aug. 14, 1810 : educated at Eton, privately, at Merton and Christ Church, Oxford : B.A., 1832 : D.C.L., 1863 : Governor of Trinidad, 1846 : Governor of Madras from April, 1754, to March, 1859 : during the mutiny he allowed Madras to be denuded of troops for service in Upper India : the rebellion did not extend to Madras : in a minute on the newspapers he made some disparaging rewarks on the want of loyalty and principle on the part of the British Press throughout the country : he was made K.C.S.I. in 1861 : G. C.S.I, in 1866 : and Chamberlain to H.R.H. the (then) Princess of Wales on her marriage in 1863 : he died Nov. 23, 1872.

HARRIS, GEORGE ROBERT CANNING, FOURTH BARON (1851–)

Born Feb. 3, 1851 : educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford : Captain of the Eton Cricket Eleven, 1870 : three years in the Oxford Eleven : Under Secretary for India, 1885–6 : Under Secretary for War, 1888–9 : Governor of Bombay, 1890–5 : served in S. Africa, 1901 : a well-known cricketer, for England and Kent : G.C.S.I. : G.C.I.E. : D.L.

HARRIS, SIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS (1807–1848)

Major : son of James Harris : born in 1807 : educated at a military college : joined the E.I. Co.'s Bombay Engineers in 1823 : on leave to the Cape, 1835–7, made an expedition to shoot big game in the interior of South Africa : field engineer to the Army in Sind, 1838 : Super-intending Engineer in 1841 : negotiated a commercial treaty with Shoa in Abyssinia : knighted, 1844 : again Superintending Engineer in Bombay : died of fever, Oct. 9, 1848 : published accounts of the game animals of S. Africa : and scientific papers on zoology and certain trees.