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3 unusual facts about Ralph Harrison


Ralph Harrison

His son William (d. 30 Nov. 1859, aged 80) was minister at Blackley, Lancashire (1803–54); another son, John, (1786–1853), was a Manchester merchant and father of John Harrison, Ph.D. (d. 1866), minister at Chowbent, Lancashire (1838–47), Brixton, Surrey (1847–61), and Ipswich (1861–3).

From the institution of the Manchester Academy (22 February 1786) till 1789 Harrison was professor of classics and belles-lettres there.

The son of William Harrison, presbyterian minister of Chinley, Derbyshire, was born at Chinley on 10 September 1748.


John Gooch Robberds

Leaving York at midsummer 1810, he preached for a few months at the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, and was invited to settle there as colleague to Theophilus Browne; but on 19 December 1810 he was called to Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, in succession to Ralph Harrison, and as colleague to John Grundy.


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