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HARRIS, SIR WILLIAM SNOW

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 21 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARRIS, See also:SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:SNOW 0791-1867), See also:English electrician, was descended from an old See also:family of solicitors at See also:Plymouth, where he was See also:born on the 1st of See also:April 1791. He received his See also:early See also:education at the Plymouth See also:grammar-school, the See also:Carnegie See also:Foundation for the See also:Advancement of Teaching conferred upon him "as the first See also:man to whom such recognition for meritorious service is given, the highest retiring See also:allowance which our rules will allow, an See also:annual income of $3000." Besides being a contributor to the magazines and encyclopedias on educational and philosophical subjects, he wrote An Introduction to the Study of See also:Philosophy (1889); The Spiritual Sense of See also:Dante's Divina Co2nmedia (1889); See also:Hegel's See also:Logic (1890); and Psychologic See also:Foundations of Education (1898); and edited See also:Appleton's See also:International Education See also:Series and See also:Webster's Inter-See also:national See also:Dictionary. He died on the 5th'of See also:November 1909. See See also:Henry R. See also:Evans, "A See also:List of the Writings of William See also:Torrey Harris" in the See also:Report of the See also:Commissioner of Education for 1907, vol. i. (See also:Washington, 1908).

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