Harris Tweed standard definition became essential. Groups of merchants in both Lewis and Harris applied to the Board of Trade for a registered trade mark. When this trade mark, the Orb, was eventually granted, the Board insisted that it should be granted to all the islands of the Outer Hebrides i.e. to Lewis, North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra, as well as to Harris, the rationale for this decision being that the tweed was made in exactly the same way in all those islands. In 1909, after much negotiation and a degree of acrimony from merchants in Harris who felt that
Lewis Wormser Harris in Kildare as a Liberal. Harris died on 1 August 1876 in Bray, County Wicklow. Lewis Wormser Harris Lewis Wormser Harris (1812-1876) was a bill-broker, financier, member of Dublin Corporation and prominent member of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. He was the first Jewish person elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, but died before he could take office. Harris was born Samuel Wormser on 5 April 1812, to Isaac Samuel Wormser and Sheinle Ephraim, in Aldingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. He moved to Ireland in 1821, living in the residence of a Charles Harris, a watchmaker, and soon after adopted the surname Harris.