Joseph took over the position in 1828 when his father moved to the estate of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, at Petworth House.
[1] Harrison married Ann Louise Weightman on 21 August 1818 at St. Peter's Church in Tankersley.
[1] In 1830, with Richard Gill Curtis, he filed a patent relating to the glazing of greenhouses.
He left his job at Wortley Hall in 1837, and moved to Downham, in Norfolk, where he set up as a florist.
[1] Harrison edited the Horticultural Register, a digest and review of other publications, with Joseph Paxton in 1831.