William Harrod (1753 – 1 January 1819) was an English printer and antiquary, publishing histories of Stamford, Mansfield and Market Harborough.
Harrod was the eldest of five children of a printer and bookseller in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, who was also for many years master of the free school there.
[1] Harrod published histories of the three towns in which he successively carried on his business:[2] In 1788 Harrod projected an enlarged edition of James Wright's History and Antiquities of Rutlandshire but, attracting few subscriptions, the work was discontinued after the appearance of two numbers.
Thomas Barker, one of Harrod's patrons, contributed a history of Lyndon, Rutland, which formed one of the parts published.
The Paper-War carried on at the Nottingham Election, 1803; containing the whole of the Addresses, Songs, Squibs, &c., circulated by the contending parties, including the Books of Accidents and Chances.