Harrison, FREDERIC

Harrison, FREDERIC, was born in London, October 18, 1831, and was educated at King's College School, London, and Wadham College, Oxford, taking a classical first-class in 1853. He became Fellow and tutor of his college, but was called to the bar in 1858, and thereafter practised conveyancing and in the Courts of Equity. He sat on the Royal Commission upon Trades-unions (1867–69), served as secretary to that for the Digest of the Law (1869–70), and from 1877 till 1889 was professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at Lincoln's Inn Hall. A Positivist in religion and an advanced Liberal in politics, he has argued his opinions in many vigorous and well-written articles in the magazines and reviews, some of which have been reprinted separately. Of his works the chief are The Meaning of History (1862), Order and Progress (1875), Lectures on Education (1883), On the Choice of Books (1886), Oliver Cromwell (1888), The Meaning of History (1894), Literary Essays (1895), Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, &c. (1900). He contested London University in 1886 as a Home-rule candidate, but without success. In 1889-93 he was an alderman in the London County Council.