Daniel Harrison

He was the son of Reuben Harrison and his wife Sarah Thompson (or Margaret), born at Countersett in the Yorkshire Dales into an old Quaker family. He was the eldest of a family of 13 children. While he was still young, around 1802, his parents moved to Rochdale in Lancashire. Daniel Harrison of Edgworth was admitted to Ackworth School in 1807.

Harrison became a Liverpool coffee dealer. He married in 1823, at which time he was living in Everton, Liverpool. He is later recorded as being in business in Liverpool before 1825. A partnership between Daniel Harrison and Joseph Ecroyd of Liverpool, as coffee dealers, was dissolved in 1834. He was for a time in a partnership with Octavius Waterhouse, as wholesale tea and coffee dealers. After losses, caused by an investment by Waterhouse, it was dissolved in 1840.

Harrison married in 1823 Anna Botham of Uttoxeter: of Anna's two sisters, Mary became Mary Howitt on marrying William Howitt, and Emma married a first cousin of Daniel, Harrison Alderson. Daniel and Anna had eight children. They included:

Mary, the eldest, friend of Octavia Hill.

Charles, the eldest son, married in 1855 Mary Jeffreys, daughter of Julius Jeffreys. He was a director of Harrisons & Crosfield, dying in 1916.

Margaret Ann (1827–1899), married in 1858 Ellis Yarnall.

Alfred (1832–1891), cleric.

Anna Jemima, married in 1871 James Macdonell.

Agnes, married in 1873 Sir John Macdonell.

Lucy Harrison (1844–1915), headmistress, the youngest.

Anna Harrison (1797–1881) was the daughter of Samuel Botham and his wife Anna Wood. She wrote for The Kaleidoscope and The Dial of Love. Anna Wood was the youngest child of Charles Wood the ironmaster, by his second wife.