Lieutenant A. S. Harington, Rifle Brigade
(1839-1878)

Volume 1, page 185, sitting number 943.

Born in 1839, Alexander Stuart Harington was the son of Robert Harington and his wife Charlotte (née Stuart). 

Alexander Stuart Harington joined the Rifle Brigade by purchase on 15 June 1859. He became a Lieutenant on 22 March 1864. In 1870 he retired from the Army with the rank of Lieutenant. 

On 11 December 1875 he married 'Eleanore, widow of the late Thomas Walker, Esq., Eastwood Hall, Notts., and only daughter of the late Richard Carmichael Bourne, formerly of the 3rd Dragoon Guards' (Nottinghamshire Guardian, 18 February 1876).

Captain Harington of the Royal Lancashire Militia died on 2 September 1878 at The Beeches, Ashurst Wood, East Grinstead (Kent & Sussex Courier, 6 September 1878). He left an estate valued at £5000.

[The portrait on the left is from an album compiled by the wine importer Charles Balfour. The portrait on the right is from an album compiled by Charles Francis Blackett, a fellow officer in the Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade.]