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to Harness survive from two short periods between February and June 1808, and then in December 1811. All Byron's letters seek to re-establish a recalled Harrow friendship and latterly became increasingly intimate in tone. Harness spent part of Christmas 1811 with Byron and another friend,
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While on a visit to one of his former curates, Edward Neville Crake, dean of Battle, Harness died in a fall down the stone staircase of the deanery, on 11 November 1869. He was buried at
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appointed Harness clerical registrar of the privy council. From 1844 to 1847 he was minister of Brompton Chapel, London. During this period, at the suggestion of
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but the friendship cooled so much immediately after, that there is no correspondence at all. The following month, Byron declared to his friend
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that "Hodgson was with me...& a Mr Harness of Harrow a mighty friend of mine, but I am sick of Harrow things".
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in Hampshire on 14 March 1790, he was son of John Harness, M.D., commissioner of transports, and elder brother
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he was curate from 1823 to 1826, and then, owing to his popularity as a preacher, became incumbent of
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were considered to carry weight. In 1844, as "Presbyter Catholicus", he wrote a pamphlet
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On 1 March 1851 Harness acted as one of the stewards at the farewell dinner given to
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The Image of God in Man. Four Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge
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Visiting Societies and Lay Readers. A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London
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All Saints, Knightsbridge (1849), from 1955 a Russian Orthodox cathedral
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in London, from 1826 to 1844. On the opposite side of Regent Square,
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for his friends; three of these were inserted by Miss Mitford in
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The Errors of the Roman Creed considered in Six Sermons
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in 1826; there in 1827 he contributed a tale entitled
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Harness took holy orders, and was ordained curate of
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The Plays of P. Massinger adapted for family reading
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H. 147:, he undertook to build the church of 128:in a poor state, he had it restored. 543:19th-century English Anglican priests 538:Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 377: 375: 373: 371: 369: 367: 365: 252:, edited by W. Harness, 1825, 8 vols. 53:with his father, and in 1802 entered 13: 362: 230:The Wrath of Cain. A Boyle Lecture 213:. The Rev. A. G. L'Estrange wrote 14: 564: 498: 453:(2296): 553–555. 28 October 1871. 280:Christian Education. Four Sermons 124:, and finding the inscription on 16:English cleric and man of letters 533:People educated at Harrow School 491:Dictionary of National Biography 466: 398:Dictionary of National Biography 311:The Life of Mary Russell Mitford 292:The First-Born: a Drama by W. H. 250:The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare 110:St Peter's Church, Regent Square 435: 423: 405: 98:Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street 96:1814-16, and then preacher at 1: 447:by the Rev. A. G. L'Estrange" 262:The Dramatic Works of J. Ford 413:"Harness, William (HNS808W)" 7: 417:A Cambridge Alumni Database 63:Christ's College, Cambridge 10: 569: 419:. University of Cambridge. 155:for the rest of his life. 246:The Life of W. Shakspeare 149:All Saints, Knightsbridge 392:"Harness, William"  355: 264:, edited by W. H., 1831. 258:, edited by W. H., 1830. 220: 199:Catherine Maria Fanshawe 160:William Charles Macready 36: 432:, ed. Marchand (1973). 166:, and preached there. 136: 126:Shakespeare's monument 33: 134: 49:. In 1796 he went to 28: 553:English book editors 333:Blackwood's Magazine 548:English biographers 164:St Paul's Cathedral 47:Henry Drury Harness 191:William Wordsworth 137: 70:letters from Byron 34: 350:Charles Blomfield 348:, against Bishop 274:Parochial Sermons 207:Harriet Martineau 122:Stratford-on-Avon 83:John Cam Hobhouse 560: 495: 486:Harness, William 484:, eds. (1890). 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George Lance
Wickham
Henry Drury Harness
Lisbon
Harrow School
Lord Byron
Christ's College, Cambridge
letters from Byron
Francis Hodgson
Newstead Abbey
John Cam Hobhouse
Kilmeston
Dorking
Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street
St. Anne's, Soho
Hampstead
St Peter's Church, Regent Square
Edward Irving
Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare's monument

Lord Lansdowne
Henry Milman
All Saints, Knightsbridge
perpetual curate
William Charles Macready
St Paul's Cathedral
Bath, Somerset
Sarah Siddons

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