Thomas Harrison (British Army officer)

Thomas Harrison (1681 - before 1755) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734.

He was adjutant-general in Spain in 1708 and brought back Lord Stanhope’s despatches after the victory at the Battle of Saragossa in 1710, for which he received £1,000 from Queen Anne.

In 1715 he was adjutant-general in Scotland where he was present at the Battle of Sheriffmuir and brought the Duke of Argyll's despatches to George I, who gave him £500.

He was brought in as Member of Parliament for Old Sarum at a by-election on 30 May 1728 when Thomas Pitt recruited two voters to defeat the single supporter of Henry Fox.

In Parliament he voted with the Administration on the Hessians in 1730 but against them on the Excise Bill in 1733 and on the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734.