Francis Capel Harrison

Francis Capel Harrison CSI (21 June 1863 – 10 September 1938) was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician.

[1] The second son of Edward Francis Harrison of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), he was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford.

[1][2] He entered the ICS in 1884, initially serving in the Executive in Bengal, after five years he moved to the financial department in Calcutta.

[1] He entered politics in 1916 when he was co-opted onto the London County Council to fill a Municipal Reform Party vacancy on the aldermanic bench in place of Cyril Jackson, who had resigned.

Harrison was appointed chairman of the council's finance committee, but resigned the position in March 1922 as he disagreed with his party over "the matter of economy".