Richard Harrison (died 1726)

Richard Harrison (1646–1726) was an English politician.

He was the eldest surviving son of Sir John Harrison of Balls Park, Hertford, Member of Parliament for Lancaster, by his second wife Mary Shotbolt; William Harrison was his half-brother but had predeceased their father in 1643.

Richard was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1663 and was admitted to the Middle Temple that same year.

Thought to favour the court in the Exclusion Crisis, he did not support James II on the throne.

[1] Harrison married in 1668 Audrey, daughter of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison; they had eight sons and six daughters.