Christening Notes

All Saints Tufnell Park Parish; baptized by H. Pritchard, Curate

  Burial Notes

Manchester Crematorium

  Recorded Events in His Life

• He has conflicting birth information of Abt 1887 and Highgate, London, England. ⁴

• He has conflicting birth information of 1887 and Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland.

• He resided at 88 Huddleston Road in Upper Holloway, Islington, London, England on 6 March 1887. ⁶

• Gallery: Baptismal Record, on 6 March 1887, in Tufnell, Islington, London, England.

• He appeared on the 1891 England Census on 5 April 1891 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England. ⁷

• He appeared on the 1901 England Census on 31 March 1901 in Christchurch Newgate Street, London, England. ⁴

• He appeared on the 1911 England Census on 2 April 1911 in Bermuda and Jamaica, Military, England.
  
  Stewart. Dare. Harrower     Private     24     Single   2Bn Bedfordshire Regt     Dundee. Scotland

• Stewart was featured in an article published in the newspaper on page 2, columns 1 and 2 of The Sunday Post on 17 February 1924 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
  
  FAMOUS REFEREE'S SON SENT TO PRISON.
  
  MADE A HABIT OF PREYING ON PEOPLE: FOOTBALL PARSON DUPED.
  
  ABSCONDED WITH GIRL AT COLLEGE: GLASGOW SENTENCE REPEATED.
  
  London, Saturday.
  
     The extraordinary career of Stewart Dare Harrower, ex-army officer and son of Mr Pat Harrower, the famous football referee, was revealed at Wood Green to-day, when he was sentenced to a total of twelve months' imprisonment.
     The charge against him was of obtaining money by false pretences from three persons. The sentence was made up as follows: — For obtaining 10s from Mr Follett, treasurer of Winchmore Hill Football Club, three months; for obtaining £8 from Miss Sharpe, a typist, six months; and for obtaining 30s from Mr Thomas Perryman, groundsman of the Barnet Football Club, three months.
     Twelve similar complaints had been made against him, and in 1915 he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in Glasgow for obtaining money by fraud. The names of several prominent people were mentioned during the case.
  
  An Unworthy Son.
  
     In giving the Magistrates' decision, the Chairman said they were sorry Mr Pat Harrower's name had been used for such unworthy objects by such an unworthy son.
     It was stated that when Harrower met Mr Follett on the club ground he pleaded that he had lost his wallet, and Mr Follett handed him 30s for his fare home. When the money was not returned a letter was written to the address he had given, and this was returned marked "not known."
     Harrower went out with Miss Sharpe and confided that he had taken money from his father's safe. The money, he said, would be returned the following morning. Miss Sharpe then handed him £8.
     Mr Pat Harrower, in evidence, declared that no money was taken from his safe.
     When the Magistrate sympathised with Mr Harrower, the latter said he was constantly being asked by friends who had lent his son money where the boy was.
     Defendant pleaded that Miss Sharpe was mistaken in asserting that he said had taken money from his father's safe. The money was taken from home. When Perryman found him on the grand stand on the Bamet ground striking matches he had lost £7.
  International Parson Defrauded.
     The Rev. Kenneth Hunt, the Internationalist, now a master at Highgate School, said defendant visited him in September, 1922. Harrower told him that in looking round the school he had lost a wallet containing all his money. Witness lent him £2. The money was not returned.
     The defence was that the money was only borrowed, and would be repaid by friends.
     Defendant said that he lost his mother when he was five, and his life at home was very unhappy. At the age of eighteen he enlisted.
     He left the army in 1911, went to America, returned in 1914, and joined up for war service in 1916 as a private. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant for gallantry in the field
     Defendant continued — Although I was C2 in the army, the Air Force graded me A1. I was asked if I was Harrower, the county cricketer. I answered yes, and I was promoted captain.
     On leaving the army in 1920 he could not get work, and became destitute. He lived on threepence for seven days. In regard to his call on Mr Follett, he said, he went on to Winchmore Hill to see Mr W. H. Berry, the actor.
     Colonel Leslie Wilson eventually got him employment at the central offices of the Conservative Association, and he was working in the interest of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Archer Shee in Finsbury at the time of his arrest.
  
  Absconded With a Girl.
  
     Inspector Heder said that accused was a married man. Witness was told that he had obtained a situation at a college at Bradford in 1921, and from there had absconded with a girl. He owed £37 when he left her.
     It was true that he became a lieutenant in the army, but was asked to resign his commission. He had no right to the title of captain, and there was no record of his having served with the Air Force
     Whilst in the army he was adjudged a bankrupt, his liabilities being returned at £1314. Witness alleged that accused was associated wth a woman good deal older than himself.
     Mr Richard Bell said the Bench were convinced that defendant had made a habit of preying on people in the way alleged.

• Stewart was featured in an article published in the newspaper on page 3, column 5 of The Dundee Courier on Monday, on 18 February 1924 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland.
  
  REFEREE'S SON SENT TO PRISON.
  Used Father's Name to Dupe Sportsmen.
  
     For using his father's name to defraud sympathetic sportsmen and an unsuspecting girl, Stewart Dare Harrower, ex-officer, and son of Mr "Pat" Harrower, the famous football referee, was on Saturday at Wood Green sent to gaol for a year.
     Rev. Kenneth Hunt, the International footballer, said that one day Harrower called on him, producing photograph of Mr "Pat" Harrower, whom Mr Hunt had known for twenty years. Harrower said he had lost his wallet containing all his money. Mr Hunt handed him £2, which was never returned, as Harrower promised it should be.
     Harrower was also charged with obtaining 30s from Mr Follett, treasurer of the Winchmore Hill Football Club, by telling him that he had lost his wallet.
     Miss Sharpe, a typist whom Harrower courted, was also duped. One night Harrower falsely told her that he had taken money from his father's safe, and that the money must be returned the next morning. She lent him £8, and had not got it back.
     Harrower declared that his home life had been unhappy, and at the age of eighteen he enlisted. He rose from private to captain in the Air Force. On leaving the Air Force he became destitute, and lived on 3d for seven days. Colonel Leslie Wilson eventually obtained work for him at the Central Office of the Conservative Association.
  Glasgow Sentence
     A police officer said Harrower was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in Glasgow in 1915 for obtaining money by fraud. It was true that he became lieutenant in the army, but was asked to resign his commission. He had no right to the title of captain, and there was no record of his having served with the Air Force.
     He was a married man, and lived at Bradford, but it was three years since he had lived with his wife. He absconded from a college there with a girl, and they lived as man and wife, but the girl was found by her sweetheart who persuaded her to return to Bradford.

• His death notice was published on page 4, column 1 of The Guardian on Friday, 12 May 1972 in London, England.
  
  HARROWER — On May 9, 1972, suddenly, at 20 Gawsworth Avenue, East Didsbury, STUART DARE, beloved husband of Constance Lillian HARROWER. No flowers please. Service at Manchester Crematorium, on Monday, May 15, at 11 30 am. Inquiries to William Peacock. Telphone 445 3397.