Background
HARRISON, William Thomas was born on September 22, 1837. Youngest son of Reverend T. T. Harrison, Rector of Thorpe Morieux.
HARRISON, William Thomas was born on September 22, 1837. Youngest son of Reverend T. T. Harrison, Rector of Thorpe Morieux.
Born into an ecclesiastical family, Harrison was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was ordained in 1861. After a curacy in Great Yarmouth he was rector of his father’s former parish and then Vicar of Christ Church, Luton. Later he was vicar of Street James’s Bury Street Edmunds and then Rural Dean of Thingoe before his ordination to the episcopate as the third Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway.
He retired to Thorpe Morieux and was again a vicar until his retirement in 1912.
Spouse 1870, Elizabeth B. Colvin,daughter of Colonel John Colvin, C.B., Leintwardine House, Ludlow.