Famous People with Name Harford

Roy Ivan Harford            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Roy Ivan Harford: is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 3 Tests in 1968.

Raymond Thomas Harford            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Raymond Thomas Harford: was an English footballer, better known for his successes as a coach and manager than as a player.He played his first senior game in 1966 but soon left for spells at Exeter City, Lincoln City, Mansfield, Port Vale and Colchester, where he became player-coach and then youth coach in 1976.

Michael Gordon "Mick" Harford            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Michael Gordon "Mick" Harford: is an English former football player and current manager of League 2 side Luton Town.He was at Lincoln for just over three years before he moved on to Newcastle United in a £180,000 transfer. After just 19 appearances and eight months at Newcastle, Harford moved on again, this time to Bristol City for £160,000 in August 1981.

Tim Harford            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Tim Harford: an English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of two economics books, presenter of BBC television series Trust Me, I'm an Economist, and writer of a humorous weekly column called "Dear Economist" for The Financial Times, in which he uses economic theory to attempt to solve readers' personal problems. His other FT column, "The Undercover Economist", is syndicated in Slate magazine.Harford studied at the University of Oxford, gaining a BA and then an MPhil in Economics in 1998. He joined the Financial Times in 2003 on a fellowship in commemoration of the business columnist Peter Martin. He continued to write his column after joining the International Finance Corporation in 2004, and re-joined the Financial Times as economics leader writer in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Lesbia Harford            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Lesbia Harford: was an Australian poet.Lesbia Venner Harford, daughter of E. J. and Helen Keogh, was born at Brighton, Victoria, on 9 April 1891. She was educated at the Sacré Coeur school at Malvern, Victoria, Mary's Mount school at Ballarat, Victoria, and at the University of Melbourne, where she graduated LL.B. in 1916.Becoming interested in social questions, she obtained work in a clothing factory to obtain first hand knowledge of the conditions under which women worked. She campaigned strongly against forced conscription in World War I. In 1916 she campaigned for the release of the Sydney Twelve, members of the Industrial Workers of the World arrested and charged with treason, arson, sedition and forger