him ‘What makes the flints in South Ash Field’, which was part of her farm, ‘so red?’. From that question stemmed Harrison’s discovery of eoliths.
   By 1865 Harrison had grown fond of the younger daughter, Elizabeth, and for some years thereafter his Sunday visits to the parish happily combined geology with courting. Eventually, on Boxing lay, 1868, he made a rare single purpose visit to Ash. Leaving Ightham at 8.30, he walked to Ash church and there, at 10.15, he was married by Mr Salwey to Elizabeth Rogers. After the service, they ‘Rode at once to Green Street Green’, where they had dinner - no doubt with Elizabeth’s sister, Rebecca, who probably then and certainly later was farming in her own right. While there they ‘had a look at the hounds in Darenth wood’ and then took train from Dartford for a two-days honeymoon in London. Sadly, their marriage was not long-lived; Elizabeth died on

New Year’ s Day, 1877, leaving  Benjamin with a young family who were to be mothered by his second wife. One of Benjamin and Elizabeth’s children was Sir Edward Harrison, who had a distinguished career in the Inland Revenue, becoming Chief Inspector of Taxes; he was also his father’s biographer. ^21a
   Elizabeth’s mother had continued at Attwood Place. In 1871, by which time it had become permissible to describe a woman as ‘Farmer’, she was working a modest sixty acres, probably the sum of the Rogers’ freehold, and employing three men and a boy; her three sons were still with her, as 'Farmers Sons’. Sophia died in 1877, the same year as Elizabeth.
   Attwood Place passed eventually to Elizabeth’s twin brother, Richard the younger, and he it was who in 1907 commissioned Mr William Hodsoll of Farningham to carry out