=Harrison= (_Dr._), the model of benevolence, who nevertheless takes in execution the goods and person of his friend Booth, because Booth, while pleading poverty, was buying expensive and needless jewelery.—Fielding, _Amelia_ (1751). _Harrison_ (_Major-General_), one of the parliamentary commissioners.—Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). _Harrison_, the old stewart of Lady Bellenden, of the Tower of Tillietudlem.—Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.). =Har´rowby= (_John_), of Stock’s Green, a homely, kind-hearted, honest Kentish farmer, with whom Lieutenant Worthington and his daughter Emily take lodgings. Though most desirous of showing his lodger kindness, he is constantly wounding his susceptibilities from blunt honesty and want of tact. _Dame Harrowby_, wife of Farmer Harrowby. _Stephen Harrowby_, son of Farmer Harrowby, who has a mania for soldiering, and calls himself “a perspiring young hero.” _Mary Harrowby_, daughter of Farmer Harrowby.—G. Colman, _The Poor Gentleman_ (1802). =Harringtons= (_The_), Melchisedec. Fashionable tailor; “a grand man, despite his calling.” Of him and _Mrs. Harrington_ it was said that she “had a Port, and Melchisedec a Presence.” _Caroline_, married to Major Strike. _Harriet_, married to Mr. Andrew Cogglesby. _Louisa_, married to Señor Silva Diaz, Conde de Saldar. _Evan_, the only son, brought up in polite circles, hates the name and trade of “tailor,” but bound in honor to pay his father’s debts. After many struggles and divers reverses, the contest between tradesman and diplomatist within him ends in his marriage to an heiress long beloved by him, and the appointment to the position of attaché to the Naples Embassy.—George Meredith, _Evan Harrington_ (1888). =Harry= (_Sir_), the servant of a baronet, who assumed the airs and title of his master, and was addressed as “Baronet,” or “Sir Harry.” He even quotes a bit of Latin: “O tempora! O Moses!”—Rev. James Townley, _High Life Below Stairs_ (1759). _Harry_ (_Blind_), the minstrel, friend of Henry Smith.—Sir. W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.). _Harry_ (_The Great_), or _Henri Grace à Dieu_, a man-of-war built in the reign of Henry VII. Towered the _Great Harry_, crank and tall. Longfellow, _The Building of the Ship_. =Harry Paddington=, a highwayman in the gang of Captain Macheath. Peachum calls him “a poor, petty-larceny rascal, without the least genius;” and says, “even if the fellow were to live six months, he would never come to the gallows with credit.”—Gay, _The Beggar’s Opera_ (1727).