Daniel Harrison (merchant)

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Daniel Harrison

Daniel Harrison (10 March 1795 – 1873)[1][2] was an English tea and coffee merchant. He was a Quaker, and a founder of Harrisons & Crosfield.

Early life[edit]

Countersett Hall, birthplace of Daniel Harrison and later called The Courts, today[1]

He was the son of Reuben Harrison and his wife Sarah Thompson (or Margaret), born at Countersett in the Yorkshire Dales into an old Quaker family. He was the eldest of a family of 13 children. While he was still young, around 1802, his parents moved to Rochdale in Lancashire.[3][4][5] Daniel Harrison of Edgworth was admitted to Ackworth School in 1807.[6]

Harrison became a Liverpool coffee dealer.[7] He married in 1823, at which time he was living in Everton, Liverpool.[8] He is later recorded as being in business in Liverpool before 1825.[9] A partnership between Daniel Harrison and Joseph Ecroyd of Liverpool, as coffee dealers, was dissolved in 1834.[10] He was for a time in a partnership with Octavius Waterhouse, as wholesale tea and coffee dealers. After losses, caused by an investment by Waterhouse, it was dissolved in 1840.[7][11]

Harrisons & Crosfield[edit]

With his brother Smith Harrison (born 1818), and Joseph Crosfield, Daniel founded Harrisons & Crosfield in Liverpool, in 1844. The new partner Crosfield (1821–1879) was also from a Quaker background. He had worked for Harrison & Waterhouse, and was the son of George Crosfield (1785–1847), and nephew of Joseph Crosfield (1792–1844) of Warrington, the noted soap manufacturer.[7][12][13][14] The company's working capital was £8,000.[15]

At that time Harrison's family lived in Birkenhead. In 1849 they moved north, to Egremont;[16] a family connection to the area existed, since their maternal grandfather Charles Wood (see below) constructed an ironworks there.[17] From the early days, Smith Harrison attended the tea sales in London's Mincing Lane. In Liverpool, the company did business at 6 Temple Place.[18]

In 1855, the company migrated to London, which had become the destination of the tea clippers. The business had prospered from the start, and became one of the top dealers in tea.[12][2] The premises were at 3 Great Tower Street. One of Harrison's sons, and two of Joseph Crosfield's sons, in time became directors.[18] Marshalls in Romford was leased as the family home, after the move.[19]

Later life[edit]

There were further moves of the Harrison family. The parents joined some of the girls for a time in Dieppe, in 1859. They moved back, to Highgate in London. There was a period in Leicester.[19]

Around 1864, they moved again to Beckenham, Kent. In later life, Harrison resided there.[19][20]

Family[edit]

Harrison married in 1823 Anna Botham of Uttoxeter: of Anna's two sisters, Mary became Mary Howitt on marrying William Howitt, and Emma married a first cousin of Daniel, Harrison Alderson. Daniel and Anna had eight children.[8][3][19] They included:

Anna Harrison (1797–1881) was the daughter of Samuel Botham and his wife Anna Wood. She wrote for The Kaleidoscope and The Dial of Love.[27] Anna Wood was the youngest child of Charles Wood the ironmaster, by his second wife.[28]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Pugh, Peter (1990). Great Enterprise: a history of Harrisons & Crosfield. Harrisons & Crosfield. p. 4. ISBN 9780951611609.
  2. ^ a b Penney, Norman (2005). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Vol. 60. Headley Brothers. p. 174.
  3. ^ a b Thistlethwaite, Bernard (1910). "The Thistlethwaite family. A study in genealogy". Internet Archive. London: Printed for private circulation by Headley brothers. pp. 6 to 7, chart. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  4. ^ Greener, Amy (1916). "A lover of books: the life and literary papers of Lucy Harrison". Internet Archive. London: J. M. Dent. p. 2. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  5. ^ Penney, Norman (2005). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Vol. 60. Headley Brothers. pp. 172–3.
  6. ^ Ackworth school catalogue. Ackworth School. 1831. p. 1806. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  7. ^ a b c Penney, Norman (2005). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Vol. 60. Headley Brothers. p. 173.
  8. ^ a b Howitt, Mary Botham (27 January 2011). Mary Howitt: An Autobiography. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. pp. 181–2. ISBN 9781108025737. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  9. ^ Liverpool Commercial List. Estell & Company. 1871. p. 34.
  10. ^ Britain, Great (1834). The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 66. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  11. ^ Britain, Great (1840). The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 1712. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  12. ^ a b Tate, D. J. M. (1996). The RGA History of the Plantation Industry in the Malay Peninsula. Oxford University Press. pp. 246 note 18. ISBN 9789835600043.
  13. ^ Pugh, Peter (1990). Great Enterprise: a history of Harrisons & Crosfield. Harrisons & Crosfield. p. 7. ISBN 9780951611609.
  14. ^ Musson, Albert Edward (1965). Enterprise in Soap and Chemicals: Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Limited, 1815-1965. Manchester University Press. p. 20. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  15. ^ Rubber Journal. Vol. 106–7. 1944. p. 92.
  16. ^ Greener, Amy (1916). "A lover of books: the life and literary papers of Lucy Harrison". Internet Archive. London: J. M. Dent. p. 3. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  17. ^ Wood, Charles; Riden, Philip (2001). The Diary of Charles Wood of Cyfarthfa Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, 1766-1767. Merton Priory Press. p. 174. ISBN 9781898937487.
  18. ^ a b c Ukers, William Harrison (1935). "All About Tea". Internet Archive. New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company. p. 167. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  19. ^ a b c d e Morse, Elizabeth J. "Harrison, Lucy". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64670. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  20. ^ "University of Nottingham, Collection browser, Manuscripts and Special Collections, under Ht - Correspondence of Mary Howitt (1799-1888), née Botham, writer, 1822-1888". Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  21. ^ Darley, Gillian (1990). Octavia Hill. Constable. p. 36. ISBN 9780094693807.
  22. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. W. Pickering. 1855. p. 532.
  23. ^ Mott, Lucretia; Ochoa, Holly Byers; Faulkner, Carol (2002). Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott. University of Illinois Press. p. li. ISBN 9780252026744. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  24. ^ "Harrison, Alfred (HRY853A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  25. ^ Phillips, Gordon. "Harrison, Lucy". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17455. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  26. ^ Lobban, Michael. "Macdonnell, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34712. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  27. ^ Simms, Rupert (1894). Bibliotheca staffordiensis; or, A bibliographical account of books and other printed matter relating to-- printed or published in-- or written by a native, resident, or person deriving a title from-- any portion of the county of Stafford: giving a full collation and biographical notices of authors and printers. Lichfield: Printed for the compiler by A. C. Lomax. p. 211. Retrieved 9 February 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  28. ^ Howitt, Mary (1889). An Autobiography. London: W. Isbister. pp. 16–7. Retrieved 10 February 2018 – via Internet Archive.

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