Nathaniel William Harrison (5 May 1865 – 7 November 1944) was an English architect.
Nathaniel William Harrison was born at Holywell, Oxford on 5 May 1865, the son of Nathaniel Harrison junior of Oxford and Maria Frances Baxter of London.[1] He had two sisters (Maria and Fanny) and two brothers (Hude and Gilbert). His family moved to 48 Rectory Road in St Clement's, Oxford in about 1870.
By 1906, he had moved to Highlands in Old Road, Headington (now numbered 57), where he was to spend the rest of his life.
On 21 August 1909 in Bearsdon, Glasgow he married Jeanie Watt Fulton and they had four children.
Harrison died at age 79 on 7 November 1955 at 57 Old Road, Headington, Oxford.
Harrison was still at school at the beginning of 1881, but later that year he was articled to the Oxford architects Wilkinson & Moore. He studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford.
In 1892, Harrison was admitted as a Member of the Society of Architects.[2] He started practising independently in Oxford in 1899, at first from his parents' home in Rectory Road. In 1903 he was appointed architect to St John's College, Oxford and served as the surveyor to the North Oxford building estate, laying out Bainton Road and designing many houses there.[3]
In 1910, he took on Thomas Rayson as his pupil architect. Also from that year until about 1918 he was in partnership with his younger brother Gilbert Andrew Harrison, M.S.A. From 1926 until his death Harrison had an office at 5 Turl Street, Oxford.[4]