William Harrison Moreland

William Harrison Moreland CSI CIE (13 July 1868 – 28 September 1938) was a British civil servant who served in the Indian Civil Service and wrote several books on the economic history of India based on Mughal, Dutch, and Portuguese sources.

Moreland was born in Belfast, Ireland, son of William Harrison of Glen House, Crawfordsburn.

He studied at Clifton College, Somerset (1881-1886) and joined the Indian Civil Services spending probation studying at Trinity College, Cambridge and receiving an LL.B.

He retired in 1914 due to loss of hearing but worked as an advisor in Central India for two years.

Returning to England, he began to study the economic history of India.