Born: Sep­tem­ber 10, 1748, Chin­ley, Der­by­shire, Eng­land.

Died: November 4, 1810, Man­ches­ter, Lan­ca­shire, Eng­land.

In 1763, Harrison en­tered War­ring­ton Acad­e­my. Af­ter or­din­a­tion as a Pres­by­ter­i­an min­is­ter, he served at Shrews­bu­ry for a time, then moved to Cross Street Cha­pel, Man­ches­ter. In 1774, he be­gan a school, and gained such re­pute as a mas­ter that when the Man­ches­ter Acad­e­my was es­tab­lished in 1798, Har­ri­son was ap­point­ed a pro­fes­sor there. About 1780, he planned to bring to­ge­ther a col­lect­ion of tunes for use in the Man­ches­ter dis­trict, es­pe­cial­ly in his own cha­pel. No lo­cal col­lect­ion had been is­sued for a long time, and af­ter he had, as he said in the pre­face, try­ing in vain to in­duce others to un­der­take the work, he be­gan it him­self, though he said he “boasts no ex­tra­or­din­ary tal­ent in mu­sic.”

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Music

1. Arlington
2. Bankington
3. Cambridge
4. Peterborough
5. Sterling
6. Warrington