Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison

Who was Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison?

Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison of Copford Hall was Lord of the Manor of Copford, Essex, a Major in the East Essex Militia, a Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Essex.

He was born Fyske Goodeve Harrison on 2 September 1793 at Copford Hall, Essex, to John Haynes Harrison. Harrison had inherited the manor from his cousin, Hezekiah Haynes, a Major General in the army of Oliver Cromwell, who had himself inherited it from his father who had purchased it from the Mountjoy family. However, John Haynes lived mainly in the Americas where he was the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later Connecticut.

John Haynes Harrison married Sarah Thomas Fiske, only child and heiress of Reverend John Fiske of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk.

According to Burke's Peerage., Rev. John Fiske, M.A. was of the Fiske family who have lived in Suffolk and Essex since they arrived in Britain with the Viking surname Fiskr at the Battle of Maldon in 991A.D. The Fiske Family Papers, a history of the family, states that she was heiress to £18,000 on her marriage in 1789, a fortune at the time.

Fiske-Harrison was educated at Charterhouse School, 1806-1810, and St John's College, Cambridge.