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THE late Benjamin Harrison was born on December 14, 1837, at Ightham, Kent, where his family had resided for several generations. Educated locally, he had the good fortune to be trained by two schoolmasters interested in science and archaeology, and thus the natural trend of his mind was greatly stimulated. On leaving school at the age of fifteen he entered his father's shop, and after his father's death carried on the business of grocer until a few years ago. He passed peacefully away on October 1 after a few days' illness in the house in which he was born. He was married twice, his first wife dying in 1877, and his second wife (for many years an invalid) surviving him only a week. He leaves one son and two daughters.
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Benjamin Harrison. Nature 108, 251 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108251a0
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