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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

cricket; won 100 yds. and quarter mile championships of Dublin University in 1899 and 1900; quarter mile amateur championship of Ireland, 1899; 440 yds. championship Army in Ireland, 1905 and 1906; son of W. Harman. of Crossdrum, Oldcastle, Co. Meath; m. 1914, Muriel, dau. of Percival Huth, of Freshford Manor, Freshford, Bath, and has issue one son and one dau.. Res.: Crossdrum, Oldcastle, Co. Meath.

HARMAN, Major Thomas Edward, D.L., J.P., Co. Wexford; Major late the Queen's Regt; only son of late S. T. Harman, J.P., of Palace, Co. Wexford, and Ballycarron, Co. Kilkenny; b. 1842: m. 1885, Mary, fourth dau. of Richard C. Browne-Clayton, D.L., J.P. for Co. Wexford, of Adlington Hall, Lanes., and Carrigbyrne, Co. Wexford. Res.: Carrigbyrne, Adamstown, Co. Wexford. Kildare Street Club, Dublin.

HARREL, Right Hon. Sir David, P.C., G.C.B. (1920). G.B.E. (1918), K.C.B. (1895), K.C.V.O. (1900), I.S.O. (1902); son of late David Harrel, of Mount Pleasant, Co. Down; b. 1841; m. 1863, Juliana, dau. of Rev. R. N. Horner. Educ.: Royal Naval School, Gosport; Royal Irish Constabulary, 1859-1879: Resident Magistrate, 1879-1883: Chief Commissioner, Dublin Metropolitan Police, 1883-1893: Under-Secretary for Ireland, 1893-1902; Member Congested Districts Board, Ireland; Chairman, Committee on Production (Arbitration Tribunal under Munitions of War Act,): Arbitrator for Board of Trade in trade disputes: Independent Chairman of Durham Coal Trade Conciliation Board and of various Railway Conciliation Boards; Chairman Royal Commission on Railway Conciliation Scheme, 1911; Chairman Irish Inland Fisheries Commission, 1914: Member Motors Act Commission, Coastguards Commission; Chairman Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police Commission. Res.: Shankill, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Royal Societies: Kildare Street, Dublin and Royal St. George Yacht, Kingstown.

HARREL, William Vesey, C.B. (1912), C.B.E. (1919), M.V.O. (1903): served in Royal Irish Constabulary, 1886-98; was Inspector of Prisons in Ireland, 1898-1902; Assistant Commissioner of Dublin Metropolitan Police, 1902-14 (King's Police Medal), and Com. R.N.V.R., 1915-19; is a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England; son of the Right Hon. Sir David Harrel, P.C., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., I.S.O., of Shankill, Co. Dublin; b. 1866. Kildare Street Club, Dublin, and Royal St. George Yacht Club, Kingstown.

HARRINGTON, Edward, son of Denis Harrington, of Castletown Bore, Co. Cork; b. 1853: Editor and Proprietor of "Kerry Sentinel": M.P., W. Kerry, 1885-92. Res.: Tralee, Co. Kerry.

HARRINGTON, The Rt. Hon. Sir Stanley, P.C. (1918), Knt. (1907), B.A., J.P.; Commissioner of National Education from 1895; Governor of University College, Cork; Past President Cork Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping; Senator National University, Ireland; Director Munster and Leinster Bank, and various other Companies. Much interested in the development of Irish Industries; b. 1856; son of the late Wm. Harrington, J.P., of Lee View, Cork, and grandson of the late Wm. Stanley (First Sec. of Irish Poor Law Commissioners and Comptroller of Inland Revenue Department in Ireland), of Dublin: m. Catherine (d. 1911), dau. of late Thomas Lyons, J.P., of Water View, Co. Cork. Res.: Trafalgar, Cork. Clubs: Cork, Royal Cork Yacht; Stephen's Green, Dublin.

HARRIS, Major George Arthur, D.S.O. (1917). O.B.E. (1910); Major late 12th Middlesex Regt. and 15th London Regt.; Dublin University Officers' Training Corps: b. Longford. 27th Oct., 1879. Educ.: Trinity College, Dublin; Scholar, Senior Moderator, and Gold Medallist in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics; Hon. M.A., University of Dublin, for services in connection with Military Education in Ireland; Administrative Civil Staff of the Admiralty, 1904; Local Government Board for Ireland, 1906; Private Secretary to Rt. Hon. Sir Henry A. Robinson, K.C.B., Vice-President of the Board, 1912-1914; D.A.Q.M.G., General Headquarters, Dublin, 1917-19; Secretary, Departmental Committee on Irish Education, May, 1919; Secretary, Irish Public Health Council, Sept., 1919: Registrar-General Nursing Council for Ireland, Feb., 1920; Assistant-Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. Northern Ireland, 1922. Res.: Belfast.

HARRIS, Reginald T. Harris, M.A. (T.C.D.); Barrister-at-Law King's Inns, 1885: High Sheriff for Co. Tyrone, 1910; youngest son of the late Wm. Wallace Harris, of 24 Mountjoy Square, Dublin, and Saintbury, Killiney, Co. Dublin. Res. Caer Gwent, Winchester. Clubs: Tyrone County Club; Junior Constitutional Club, London.

HARRISON, Major Michael Charles Cooper, D.S.O. (1918), M.C., 5th Royal Irish Regt. Educ.: Bradford; Sandhurst. Entered Army, 2nd Royal Irish Regt., 1906; Lieut.. 1908: Capt. and Adjt., 1914: Batt. Major, 1919; served Expeditionary Force (severely wounded and taken prisoner, despatches): after five attempts to escape from Germany, 1915, succeeded in Sept., 1917, and rejoined his old Batt. in France in Dec.; Acting-Major and 2nd in Command, Feb., 1918, and Temp. Lieut.-Col., March, 1918; reached Mons at signing of Armistice; transferred to Army of Rhine, 1919 (despatches twice). Recns.: athletics: half-mile champion of Ireland, 1910. quarter-mile, 1914; winner of many