17-625: John Harriott may refer to: John Harriott (sailor) , English sailor involved in founding the Marine Police Force John Edward Harriott , fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company John Staples Harriott , British army officer in the service of the East India Company [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
34-731: A rajah in the Golconda district, unfitted him for further active service. After visits to Sumatra and the Cape of Good Hope , he returned home. Harriott married, and after trying his hand at underwriting and the wine trade, settled down as a farmer at his native place in Essex. In 1781–2 he reclaimed from the sea Rushley Island of two hundred acres, between Great Wakering and Foulness , which had several feet of water on it at spring-tides, by enclosing it with an embankment three miles in length. He then erected farm-buildings and sank wells on it. For this project
51-653: A letter on the subject to the Duke of Portland , but, with no support from the Lord Mayor of London, it was an introduction to Patrick Colquhoun that helped the push the scheme through. At midsummer 1798 the Marine Police Force was established. Colquhoun was appointed receiver, with an office at Westminster, with three special justices, one of whom, Harriott, was to reside at the police office in Wapping . Police cutters patrolled
68-536: A military appointment in the East Indies. He states that he arrived at Madras in time to take part in the conclusion of General Smith's operations against Hyder Ali . Subsequently he was posted to a sepoy battalion in the Northern Circars, where he also did duty as deputy judge-advocate and acting chaplain for some time. A matchlock wound in the leg, received when in command of four companies of sepoys sent against
85-419: A small shop by Thomas Odell , deputy Licenser of Plays. The first play performed was George Farquhar 's The Recruiting Officer . Henry Fielding 's second play The Temple Beau premièred here on 26 January 1730. Upon retirement, Odell passed the management on to Henry Giffard , after a sermon was preached against the theatre at St Botolph's, Aldgate . Giffard operated the theatre until 1732. After he left,
102-508: The River Thames . Crime was reduced but the force was initially unpopular. Violence was used, and later in 1809 charges of malversation were brought against Harriott by clerks in his office. The case was thrown out by the King's Bench in 1810. Harriott continued his duties until his health broke down some nine months before his death. He died at Burr Street, Spitalfields , on 22 April 1817 and
119-685: The Society of Arts awarded him a gold medal; also a prize for an improved road harrow for levelling ruts. Harriott at this time was a surveyor of roads and an Essex magistrate as well as a farmer. In 1790 the destruction of his farm by fire brought Harriott to the verge of ruin. He called a meeting of his creditors, who behaved well; emigrated with his family to the United States, where he remained in an unsettled position for some years, and then returned home again in 1795. On 31 October 1797 Harriott, then described as of Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields , in
136-489: The public domain : Stephen, Leslie ; Lee, Sidney , eds. (1890). " Harriott, John ". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Goodman%27s Fields 51°30′53″N 0°04′19″W / 51.514812°N 0.071851°W / 51.514812; -0.071851 Two 18th century theatres bearing the name Goodman's Fields Theatre were located on Alie Street , Whitechapel , London . The first opened on 31 October 1727 in
153-418: The 1741 farce The Lying Valet . The theatre closed 27 May 1742 and did not re-open. It was pulled down in 1746, and a further theatre built on the site, this briefly showed drama before it was converted to a warehouse and burned down in 1809. During its heyday, the poet Gray noted in a letter to a friend, that "there are a dozen dukes of a night at Goodman's Fields sometimes". The Oxford Companion to
170-498: The East India Company gave appointments to two of his sons: John Staples Harriott , afterwards a colonel of Bengal infantry, who lost a leg at the battle of Delhi in 1803, when serving under Lord Lake , and Thomas Harriott, lieutenant in the Indian navy, who commanded the Psyche gun-brig at the taking of Java. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in
187-850: The West Indies and the Levant, and was shipwrecked on the Mewstone Rock. Harriott served in the Seven Years' War , under Admiral George Pocock at the Battle of Havana (1762) , and during the recapture of Newfoundland . After the peace of 1763 he entered the merchant service, went up the Baltic Sea , and, as mate, made voyages in the American and West Indian trade. He spent several months among Native Americans in 1766; and then returned home. In 1768 Harriott received
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#1732851619566204-461: The county of Middlesex, patented an improvement in ships' pumps, which was adopted in the navy, and set up a small factory. He subscribed to William Pitt 's loyalty loan, and suggested improvements in the organisation of volunteer corps and sea and river fencibles . Around 1797 Harriott prepared a scheme for the establishment of a river police force for the Port of London . On 30 October 1797 he addressed
221-495: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Harriott&oldid=1084463104 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Harriott (sailor) John Harriott (1745–1817)
238-551: The theatre was used for a variety of acrobatic performances. Giffard constructed a new theatre down the street designed by Edward Shepherd who also designed the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden . The theatre opened with Henry IV, Part I , 2 October 1732 that included actors Thomas Walker , Richard Yates and Henry Woodward . A dispute at the Drury Lane Theatre bought the actress Sarah Thurmond and her husband to
255-498: The theatre. With the passing of the Licensing Act 1737 , the theatre was forced to close. Giffard rented Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre briefly and then, with various political machinations, was able to reopen Goodman's Fields in 1740. The Winter's Tale was produced there in 1741 for the first time in over a century. The same year David Garrick made his successful début as Richard III . He also staged plays of his own including
272-562: Was an English seafarer, now known for his part in founding the Marine Police Force . He was resident magistrate at the Thames police-court from 1798 to 1816. Harriott was born at Great Stambridge , near Rochford , Essex , where his father, who had been in the Royal Navy and merchant marine, had settled a couple of years earlier. After a little schooling he was placed in the navy, served in
289-530: Was buried at St Mary and All Saints Church, Stambridge , in Rochford , Essex . Harriott published: Struggles through Life , London, 3 vols., his autobiography, went through several editions, the last containing a chapter on the Abuses of Private Madhouses . Harriott was also a patentee of the following inventions: Harriott was three times married, and left a widow and several children and grandchildren. In 1797
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