Thomas Maxwell Harris, 8 January 1903 - 1 May 1983

Abstract

Thomas Maxwell Harris was the son of a Leicester engineer and inventor, Alex Charles Harris. His grand father, Thomas, had been the active partner in the Caine bacon firm, Charles and Thomas Harris. Harris wrote of his grandfather that ‘he had a rudimentary education and a terrific sense of duty, rather often mitigated by humour’. Tom’s mother, Lucy Frances, was the youngest daughter of Arthur Evans, the Leicester town flour miller. She had had ‘a very good education, including Cheltenham’. He recorded that she was ‘full of love, not merely for her four children but for all the lame ducks around. She had an enormous circle of friends and was constantly writing letters.’