Daniel Harrison (merchant)

Daniel Harrison (10 March 1795 – 1873)[1][2] was an English tea and coffee merchant.

He was the son of Reuben Harrison and his wife Sarah Thompson (or Margaret), born at Countersett in the Yorkshire Dales into an old Quaker family.

[3][4][5] Daniel Harrison of Edgworth was admitted to Ackworth School in 1807.

[9] A partnership between Daniel Harrison and Joseph Ecroyd of Liverpool, as coffee dealers, was dissolved in 1834.

[10] He was for a time in a partnership with Octavius Waterhouse, as wholesale tea and coffee dealers.

In 1849 they moved north, to Egremont;[16] a family connection to the area existed, since their maternal grandfather Charles Wood (see below) constructed an ironworks there.

[17] From the early days, Smith Harrison attended the tea sales in London's Mincing Lane.