Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harris, William (1776?-1830)
HARRIS, WILLIAM (1776?–1830), independent minister, born about 1776, was pastor of the meeting-house in Downing Street, Cambridge, from about 1805, until he was appointed divinity tutor at the Hoxton academy in 1818. He became minister of the meeting-house in Church Street, Stoke Newington, at Michaelmas 1820, and subsequently theological tutor of Highbury College. He died on 3 Jan. 1830, aged 53, and was buried in Bunhill Fields (J. A. Jones, Bunhill Memorials, p. 78). He was LL.D. He published ‘Grounds of Hope for the Salvation of all dying in infancy: an essay,’ 1821, and many other tracts and sermons. He is to be distinguished from William Harris (fl. 1840), minister of the congregational church at Wallingford in Berkshire, author of numerous pamphlets and discourses.
[Gent. Mag. vol. c. pt. i. p. 280; William Robinson's Stoke Newington, p. 218.]