Nathaniel William Harrison

Nathaniel William Harrison (5 May 1865 – 7 November 1944) was an English architect.

Family

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Nathaniel William Harrison was born at Holywell, Oxford on 5 May 1865, the son of Nathaniel Harrison junior of Oxford and Maria Frances Baxter of London.[1] He had two sisters (Maria and Fanny) and two brothers (Hude and Gilbert). His family moved to 48 Rectory Road in St Clement's, Oxford in about 1870.

By 1906, he had moved to Highlands in Old Road, Headington (now numbered 57), where he was to spend the rest of his life.

On 21 August 1909 in Bearsdon, Glasgow he married Jeanie Watt Fulton and they had four children.

Harrison died at age 79 on 7 November 1955 at 57 Old Road, Headington, Oxford.

Career

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Harrison was still at school at the beginning of 1881, but later that year he was articled to the Oxford architects Wilkinson & Moore. He studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford.

In 1892, Harrison was admitted as a Member of the Society of Architects.[2] He started practising independently in Oxford in 1899, at first from his parents' home in Rectory Road. In 1903 he was appointed architect to St John's College, Oxford and served as the surveyor to the North Oxford building estate, laying out Bainton Road and designing many houses there.[3]

In 1910, he took on Thomas Rayson as his pupil architect. Also from that year until about 1918 he was in partnership with his younger brother Gilbert Andrew Harrison, M.S.A. From 1926 until his death Harrison had an office at 5 Turl Street, Oxford.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ "Nathaniel William Harrison (1865–1944)". headington.org.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  2. ^ Antonia Brodie, Alison Felstead, Jonathan Franklin, Leslie Pinfield, and Jane Oldfield, Directory of British Architects 1834–1934 (Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum: London and New York, 2001)
  3. ^ a b c Tanis Hinchcliffe, North Oxford (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1992)
  4. ^ Kelly's Directory from 1926 to 1944.
  5. ^ Oxford Chronicle, 21 October 1904, p. 3
  6. ^ a b Oxford Chronicle, 13 October 1905, p. 9
  7. ^ a b Oxford Chronicle, 11 October 1907, p. 9
  8. ^ a b Oxford Chronicle, 9 October 1908, p. 11
  9. ^ a b c d Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Jennifer Sherwood, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East (Yale University Press, 2023)
  10. ^ a b c Oxford Chronicle, 8 October 1909, p. 9
  11. ^ a b Oxford Chronicle, 14 October 1910, p. 8)
  12. ^ Oxford Chronicle, 20 October 1911, p. 11 and 24 November 1911, p. 5
  13. ^ a b c d Oxford Chronicle, 9 October 1914, p. 8
  14. ^ Oxford Journal Illustrated, 19 May 1915, p. 14
  15. ^ Oxford Journal Illustrated, 12 July 1916, p. 12
  16. ^ Lambeth Palace Library Archives
  17. ^ The Times, 18 October 1927
  18. ^ National Historic Ships UK: Corpus Christi barge
  19. ^ The Times, 3 December 1932