Editing Frederic Harrison (section)

==Biography==

Born at 17 Euston Square, [[London]], he was the son of Frederick Harrison (1799–1881),<ref>For date of death of Harrison Snr., see: Harrison, Frederic, Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place, Guildford, London, 1899, p. 149, note 1.</ref> a [[stockbroker]] and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a [[Belfast]] granite merchant. He was baptised at St. Pancras Church, Euston, and spent his early childhood at the northern London suburb of [[Muswell Hill]], to which the family moved soon after his birth.<ref name="odnb" /> His father later acquired a lease on the grand Tudor manor house [[Sutton Place, Surrey|Sutton Place]] near Guildford, Surrey, in 1874,<ref>Harrison, F, Annals of an Old Manor House, London, 1899</ref> which descended to his elder son Sidney, and about which Frederic jnr. wrote the definitive history ''Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place, Guildford'', first published in 1893. His paternal grandfather was a [[Leicestershire]] builder.<ref name="obit">{{cite news|title=Frederic Harrison. The Writer As Man of Action., An Unabashed Victorian|date=15 January 1923|work=[[The Times]]|page=12}}</ref> In 1840, the family moved again to 22 Oxford Square, [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]], London, a house designed by Harrison's father.<ref name="odnb" /> Along with his siblings Sidney and Lawrence,<ref>Harrison, F. Annals of an Old Manor House, London 1899, p.149, note 1</ref> Harrison received his initial education at home before attending a day school in [[St John's Wood]]. In 1843, he entered [[King's College School]], graduating as second in the school in 1849.<ref name=odnb/><ref name=obit/>