Portrait Photograph of
James Park Harrison
(1917-1901)
of Moorhurst Holmwood Surrey
and later Garlands, Ewhurst, Surrey
James
Park Harrison (1817-1901) was a Victorian architect, born in
Bloomsbury. He studied at Oxford and then Lincoln's Inn. He was
associated with the Oxford Movement and with John Keble (1792–1866); the
Ecclesiological Society approved of him. By 1851, living near
Dorking, he had largely given up architecture, preferring to call himself
an annuitant and MA of Oxford. For the remainder of his life he
devoted himself to archaeological and ethnographic studies of the most
varied kinds. As a widower he lived in a succession of lodgings
until taken in by his son, a retired naval officer, in Sydenham, where he
is to be found in 1901. (Information from Sussex Churches
website).
For more information on James Park Harrision see:
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