Private Life and The Law
Harney, a Roman Catholic, was born in Dublin, the fifth son of Richard Harney JP whose family home was County Waterford. He was educated at St. Vincent’s College, Castleknock. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1892. Soon after he emigrated to Australia and was called to the Bar there in 1897. In 1905 he was made a King's Counsel (KC) in Australia. He returned to England and was then called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1906, taking silk (that is becoming a KC in England) in 1920. In 1898 he married Clarissa Crewdson Benington, the daughter of a medical doctor from Newcastle upon Tyne. This marriage was dissolved in 1923 and Harney was remarried in 1927 to Kathleen Anderson from South Shields. They had a son Desmond who was born on 14 February 1929, just before his father’s death. He went on to join the Diplomatic Service and was a Conservative councillor in Chelsea.
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