1811-1866
Lived at 48 High Street in Ashford. Harrison was a plumber, grazier and painter who, along with George Mannering from Dover, came up with the idea of a hand water pump – or as it was patented, the invention of “certain improvements in the means of rising water and other fluids”.
The patent for the water hand pump was signed in front of Queen Victoria, on the 4th March 1841.
Henry Harrison is also said to have invented a water pump that went on the old ‘Hadley, Simpkin and Lott’ fire engines of the early nineteenth century.
Harrison died in Ashford in 1866.