Robin Harrison was born on 15 November 1900 in
Hambledon, Surrey and was educated at
Haileybury and
Merton College, Oxford. He became a master at
Westminster School and returned to Merton in 1930. He was a nephew of
Sir Francis Younghusband and a cousin of
Eileen Younghusband. At the start of the
Second World War he entered government service in the Ministry of Food, where he became Deputy Director of Public Relations and Private Secretary to the minister
Lord Woolton. and made a CBE in 1950. That year he returned to Merton to take up his old job as Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History. He served for a time as Domestic Bursar He was involved in university planning and helped in the foundation of two new colleges,
Wolfson and
St. Cross. He was made an honorary fellow of both. He was the author of various academic books mainly dealing with
law in the
ancient world, including
The Law of Athens. He was a man of "untiring scholarship, good sense, and sound judgment". Harrison died on 18 May 1969 in
Oxford. ==References==