page_title: Frederic Harrison
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Frederic Harrison / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethel Bertha Harrison (1851-1916) oil on canvas 90.5 x 70.5 cm
context_page_description: Frederic Harrison was a British jurist and historian.
context_section_description: An advanced and vehement Radical in politics and Progressive in municipal affairs, Harrison in 1886 stood unsuccessfully for Parliament against Sir John Lubbock for the University of London. In 1889 he was elected an alderman of the London County Council, but resigned in 1893.
  Harrison was a regular contributor to George Potter's trade unionist journal The Beehive, and to W. H. Riley's Commonwealth, which promoted the International Working Men's Association. He was a supporter of Polish and Italian independence, the federals in the American civil war, the reformers in the Jamaica Committee of 1866, the Paris Commune and was a vice president of the Reform League. In an article defending the Paris Commune which appeared in the Fortnightly Review Harrison proclaimed: 'The status quo is impossible. The alternative is Communism or Positivism.'
  Later works include Autobiographic Memoirs (1911); The Positive Evolution of Religion (1912); The German Peril (1915); On Society (1918); Jurisprudence and Conflict of Nations (1919); Obiter Scripta (1919); Novissima Verba (1920).
caption: Ethel Bertha Harrison (1851–1916) (William Blake Richmond)
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