Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison (2 September 1793 – 1872) of

Copford Hall Copford Hall is a manorialism, manorial seat and Grade II listed country house, with gardens by Capability Brown, in the village of Copford, Essex, England, 46 miles (74 km) from London. The building was at one time owned by the Bishop of Lo ...

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was

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. He was born Fyske Goodeve Harrison on 2 September 1793 at

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, to John Haynes Harrison. John Haynes Harrison had inherited the manor from his first cousin, Hezekiah Haynes, a Major General in the army of

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. Hezekiah Haynes had inherited it from his father, John Haynes, who had purchased it from the Mountjoy family. However, John Haynes lived mainly in the Americas where he was the first Governor of the

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and later

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. John Haynes Harrison married Sarah Thomas Fiske, only child and heiress of Reverend John Fiske of

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. ''The Fiske Family Papers'', a history of the family, states that she was heiress to £18,000 on her marriage in 1789. Fiske-Harrison was educated at

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, 1806-1810, and

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. He served in the East Essex Regular Militia, rising to the rank of

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(gazetted in 1828). He changed his surname to Fiske-Harrison on inheriting his mother's estates after her death, and became Lord of the Manor of Copford on his father's death in 1839. He married Jane, daughter of James Sparrow, in 1826. He served as a

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, rising to Justice of the Peace, and as

in 1827. He died in 1872. On his death Copford Hall, and the Lordship of the Manor, passed to his brother, and the most recent holder of the title and the hall was his descendant, MP for

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in Essex, Brian Harrison. The current Fiske-Harrison family, of Fiske & Co the

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, are descended from his cousin William Fiske, Lord of Stadhaugh Manor in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiske-Harrison, Fiske Goodeve 1793 births 1872 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School People from the Borough of Colchester Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge High sheriffs of Essex