Daniel Harrison (merchant)

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.

Daniel Harrison

Early life
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

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

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

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
  1. Pugh, Peter (1990). Great Enterprise: a history of Harrisons & Crosfield. Harrisons & Crosfield. p. 4. ISBN 9780951611609.
  2. Penney, Norman (2005). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. 60. Headley Brothers. p. 174.
  3. 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. 60. Headley Brothers. pp. 172–3.
  6. Ackworth school catalogue. Ackworth School. 1831. p. 1806. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  7. Penney, Norman (2005). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. 60. Headley Brothers. p. 173.
  8. Howitt, Mary Botham (2011-01-27). Mary Howitt: An Autobiography. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Internet Archive. Lichfield: Printed for the compiler by A. C. Lomax. p. 211. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  28. Howitt, Mary (1889). An Autobiography. Internet Archive. London: W. Isbister. pp. 16–7. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
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