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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).

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

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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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