Author: Wilson, Harrison Corbett
Biography:
WILSON, Harrison Corbett (1806-61: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 12 Mar. 1806 at Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire, the fifth son of Rev. William Corbett Wilson (1764-1837) and his wife Catherine Harrison (1771-1845), who had married at Stony Stratford, Buckingham, in 1794. He was educated at Rugby school but does not appear to have gone on to university. (His father and elder brother had gone to Trinity College Cambridge and entered the established church.) He later practised as an attorney so may have been articled locally. In 1842, he was listed as practising in Leamington at 18 Clarendon Street. He does not appear to have married and after the deaths of his parents, he is recorded in the 1851 Census living with his elder brother Henry Corbett, a retired farmer, probably at the family home just south of the village of Priors Hardwick. He died on 29 Oct. 1861, aged 55, and was buried at St. Leonard’s, Priors Marston, on 2 Nov. In addition to the works listed here, he wrote topographical verse (Warwick Castle, 1840; Leamington, 1843),A Dissertation on the Holy Bible: a Poem (1847), and undistinguished verse on contemporary dignities (Victoria and Albert [1849,1851], Duke of Wellington [1852]). He also wrote the eccentric poem Christian Advice to the Poor Deluded Believers in Mormonism (1852). He was a regular contributor of poems to the Leamington Spa Courier in the 1840s. (ancestry.co.uk 16 Apr. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 16 Apr. 2022; CCEd 16 Apr. 2022; Rugby School Register 1675-1849 [1881], 1: 130; Leamington Spa Courier 3 June 1837; OJ 15 Mar. 1845; LES 6 Nov. 1861) AA