Received his professional education at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals. He became Surgeon to the North Devon Infirmary, and at the time of his death was Consulting Surgeon. He practised at Barnstaple and died at his residence, Riversvale, in 1884.

Was one of the first pupils of Henry Clark (qv) at Bristol in his newly opened 'Theatre of Anatomy' in 1826, when there were only seven or eight in the class. He went afterwards to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and, returning to Bristol, lectured for many years on surgery and descriptive anatomy at wha

The third of six sons of George Harrison; was for more than fifty years a prominent man in Chester as Surgeon to the Infirmary, then Consulting Surgeon, also three times Mayor. His eldest brother, George, practised as a partner with his father until his death about 1850. Another brother, Job, MRCS,