Ernest John Harrison

British writer and judoka

Born

1873

Died

1961

Sport

judo

Occupation

journalist, judoka, translator

Ernest John ("E.J.") Harrison (22 August 1873 - 23 April 1961) was an English journalist, author and judoka. Harrison was born in Manchester, England, on 22 August 1873. He wrote many books about the practice of judo. He died in London, on 23 April 1961.

He was the younger of two boys born to Mary Ann (Polly) Harrison formerly Phillips. Following the death of their father, Ernest and his brother Paul, lived with their uncle Richard Cobden Phillips and his children, Mahomet and Nene, who recently returned from the Congo, where R. C. Phillips had been an agent for a trading company. Phillips in Africa had met Henry Morton Stanley in 1876. An uncle, John Searle Ragland Phillips, later became editor of The Yorkshire Post. Ernest’s cousin Mahomet Thomas Phillips became an accomplished ecclesiastical sculptor and carver, with work residing in numerous churches and cathedrals in the UK and abroad and worked on a number of war memorials following the First World War.

External links

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