Provenance:

Estate of Robert D. and Pamela P. Schwarz, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.

Note:

A distinguished career English army officer Harris was commissioned captain in 1771. His first active service began in Massachusetts during the early days of the American War of Independence at the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, where he was wounded. From 1776 until 1778 Harris served under Commander-in-Chief of British Land forces, General William Howe in the Battles of Long Island, White Plains, Cooch's Bridge, Fort Washington, Brandywine, and Monmouth. General Harris was bestowed the title of Baron of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1815 after his successful siege of the city and overthrow of the Kingdom in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.

This stall plate commemorates Harris's appointments to the peerage and his installation as A Knight of the Order of The Bath-.

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