Norfolk, manager of the Falkland Islands, _d._ 1870). _b._ 1850;
entered school of art South Kensington 1870, gained a free
studentship; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st.
1873–80; removed to Paris 1888, where she exhibited two pictures
at the Salon 1889; illustrated some of the stories written
by her sister Dora Boulger otherwise Theo Gift 1875–90; she
also illustrated A book of modern ballads 1892; A book of old
ballads 1892; Some old love songs 1892; Odatis, a poem by Lewis
Morris 1892; Love and sleep by L. Morris 1893. _m._ April 1872
Frederick Morgan, an artist, but she was always known as Alice
Havers. _d._ 11 Marlborough road, St. John’s Wood, London 26
Aug. 1890.
MORGAN, ARTHUR (son of Wm. Morgan, actuary of The Equitable
1750–1833), actuary of The Equitable society 2 Dec. 1830,
resigned 3 March 1870; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited W. Morgan’s
A view of the rise of the Equitable society 1834; author of
Equitable society, three addresses 1854. _d._ 26 New Bridge st.
London 10 March 1870. _Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii_ 630
(1873).
MORGAN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS SAMUEL (brother of 1 Baron Tredegar
1792–1875). _b._ 2 Sep. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; chaplain in ordinary to the
sovereign 29 April 1829 to death; R. of Machen, co. Monmouth
1831–73; chancellor of Llandaff cathedral 1851 to death. _d._
Machen 5 Sep. 1875.
MORGAN, CHARLES OCTAVIUS SWINNERTON (brother of the preceding).
_b._ 15 Sept. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A,
1825, M.A. 1852; M.P. Monmouthshire 1841 to 1874; read many
papers before the Caerleon antiquarian association 1854–66 of
which he was president; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; F.S.A. 13 May 1830,
vice-president; author of Tables of the annual assay office
letters used in the marking of plate 1853; Some account of the
monuments in the priory church Abergavenny 1872; Old English
plate founded on the papers of C. O. S. Morgan and W. J. Cripps
1878. _d._ The Friars, Newport 5 Aug. 1888. _bur._ in family
vault at Bassaleg church, Monmouthshire. _G. T. Clarke’s Limbus
patrum Morganiæ_ (1886) 313; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 384–6
(1889).
MORGAN, CHARLES RODNEY. _b._ Rupena house, Glamorgan 2 Dec.
1828; M.P. Brecknock 9 July 1852 to death. _d._ Marseilles 14
Jany. 1854.
MORGAN, DANIEL, assumed name of Samuel Moran. _b._ Campbeltown,
New South Wales about 1828; worked on sheep stations and as
a stock-rider; unjustly condemned at Castlemaine to 12 years
imprisonment 1854; known as Down-the-River Jack or Bill the
native; committed a series of highway robberies 1863, a reward
of £500 offered for his apprehension by government of N.S.W. 5
Jany. 1864; shot police-sergeant Mc.Ginnerty June 1864, killed
John Mc.Lean and wounded two others at Round Hill a few days
later; shot police-sergeant Smith Sept. 1864, the reward was
increased to £1500 8 March 1865; stuck up Bowler’s station 1
April 1865; stuck up Bond’s station, Upotipotpa and robbed the
Albury mail 4 April; stuck up Peechalba station 7 April. _shot_
at Peechalba station 8 April 1865, his head was cut off and
sent to Melbourne, his body was _bur._ at the Murray, said to
be the original of Patrick in Ralph Boldrewood’s (_i.e._ Thomas
Alexander Broun) novel Robbery under arms 3 vols. 1888. _Morgan
the mail robber or the bandit of the bush_ (1868). His life was
dramatised at the Princess’ theatre, London Oct. 1894.
MORGAN, DAVID LLOYD. _b._ Rhôsmaen near Llandilo 1823; studied
at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1846, F.R.C.S. 1861; M.D. St.
Andrew’s 1866; surgeon R.N. 31 Dec. 1846, fleet surgeon 1866;
inspector general of hospitals 1877, retired 30 May 1883; served
on West coast of Africa, in the Mediterranean and during Crimean
war; with the land forces in China; senior medical officer of
flag ship Euryalus in Japan and China 1862–5, and of the Royal
Alfred in the West Indies; deputy inspector general of Bermuda,
Hongkong and Chatham; received Blane medal 1871; C.B. 17 June
1871; inspector general at Plymouth 17 Dec. 1878, and at Haslar
hospital 6 Feb. 1880; physician in ordinary to the queen July
1888 to death. _d._ Rhôsmaen 3 Dec. 1892.
MORGAN, EDWARD. Draper at Newport, Monmouth; granted civil
list pension of £20 9 Sep. 1840 for his services as a special
constable during the riots, when he received several wounds.
_d._ 26 March 1856.
MORGAN, HUGH (3 son of Hugh Morgan of Machynlleth, co.
Montgomery). _b._ 1826; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A.
1849; V. of Rhyl 1855 to death; archdeacon of St. Asaph and
canon residentiary of St. Asaph cathedral 1877 to death. _d._
canonry of St. Asaph 8 June 1878.
MORGAN, JAMES (son of Thomas Morgan of Cookstown, co. Tyrone,
linen merchant, _d._ 1835). _b._ Cookstown 15 June 1799; entered
Glasgow univ. Nov. 1814, D.D. 1847; studied at Belfast college
1815–20; presbyterian minister at Carlow Feb. 1820, at Lisburn,
co. Antrim 1824–78, and at Fisherwich place chapel, Belfast Nov.
1828 to death; a founder of Ulster temperance society 1829; hon.
secretary of the general assembly’s foreign mission 1840 to
death; moderator of general assembly 1846; joint editor of The
Orthodox Presbyterian; author of Essays on some of the principal
doctrines and duties of the Gospel 1837; Lessons for parents and
sabbath school teachers 1849; The Lord’s Supper 1849; Rome and
the Gospel 1853. _d._ Belfast 5 Aug. 1873. _Thomas Morgan’s Life
of Dr. Morgan_ (1874) _portrait_.
MORGAN, JAMES (son of a farmer). _b._ about 1795; assistant
whipper-in to Mr. Lloyd of Wintlesham hall, Suffolk; whipper-in
to Suffolk Border hounds; huntsman to Cambridgeshire hounds;
kennel huntsman and whipper in to the Tickham hounds, Kent 3
years; huntsman to Mr. Conyers 15 years; huntsman to the Essex
union 3 years; huntsman to lord Berkeley 1851; huntsman to lord
Lonsdale 1854. _I.L.N. 29 Dec. 1855 p._ 760 _portrait_.
MORGAN, JOHN. _b._ 1785; entered Madras army 1800; lieut. 12
Madras N.I. 20 July 1801, captain 7 June 1813; major 24 N.I. 8
Sept. 1826, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1831 to 9 Feb. 1834; lieut. col.
of 4 N.I. 9 Feb. 1834, of 28 N.I. 1835 to 1840, of 12 N.I. 1840
to 24 Dec. 1841, and of 52 N.I. 24 Dec. 1841 to 23 Jany. 1843;
commander at Masulipatam 21 Dec. 1841 to 19 Feb. 1844; col. of
46 N.I. 23 Jany. 1843 to death; general 27 May 1866; C.B. 20
July 1838. _d._ Swansea 29 March 1869.
MORGAN, JOHN. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1853;
L.R.C.S.I. 1850, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; demonstrator of anatomy at
school of surgery under direction of council of royal college of
surgeons Ireland 1851–61, professor of surgical and descriptive
anatomy 1861 to death; author of Practical lessons on affections
produced by contagious diseases 1872; Cure of bent knee and the
treatment of contracted joints 1874; Report of cases treated
in the Westmoreland Lock hospital 1868. _d._ 23 St. Stephen’s
green, Dublin 4 March 1876.
MORGAN, JOHN EDWARD (son of rev. Mr. Morgan). _b._ Gothenburg,
Sweden 1829; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860, B.M.
1861, M.D. 1865; M.R.C.P. 1861, F.R.C.P. 1868, consiliarius
1887; professor of medicine Owens college, Victoria univ.
Manchester 1873, resigned 1891; author of The danger and
deterioration of race from the increase of great cities 1866;
Town life among the poorest, the air they breathe and the house
they inhabit 1869; University oars, an enquiry into the after
health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat
race 1829–69, 1873; The Victoria university why are there no
medical degrees 1881. _d._ Knutsford near Manchester 4 Sept.
1892.
MORGAN, JOHN MINTER (eld. son of John Morgan of 39 Ludgate
hill, London, wholesale stationer 1741–1807). _b._ London 1782;
devoted himself to philanthropy; author of Remarks on the
practicability of Mr. Owen’s plan to improve the condition of
the lower classes 1819; The revolt of the bees 1826; anon. which
contained his views on education; The reproof of Brutus, a poem
1830; Hampden in the nineteenth century 1834; Colloquies on
religion and religious education 1851; reprinted some of his own
and other works under title of The Phœnix Library 13 vols. 1850;
founded the National Orphan home near his own residence on Ham
Common 1849; tried to raise £50,000 to erect a Church of England
self-supporting village 1850. _d._ 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly,
London 26 Dec. 1854. _bur._ in the church on Ham Common 3 Jany.
1855. _G.M. April 1855 pp._ 430–1; _I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 pp._
177–8 _with view of his self-supporting village_.
MORGAN, MARIA. _b._ Cork 1828; visited Rome where she obtained
a commission from king Victor Emmanuel to buy saddle-horses in
Ireland; on the regular staff of one of the daily papers in New
York, being the reporter of cattle markets and fairs; more than
six feet in height and known to her associates as “Midy” Morgan.
_d._ New York July 1892. _T. Browne’s Advertisers A.B.C._ (1893)
_p. clxv_.
MORGAN, MATTHEW SOMERVILLE (son of Matthew Morgan actor and
teacher of music, by Mary Somerville actress and singer). _b._
Lambeth, London 27 April 1839; articled to Grieve and Telbin
scene painters 1853; scene painter Princess’s theatre, London;
artist and correspondent on Illust. London News, for which
he reported the Austro-Italian war 1859; studied in Paris,
Italy and Spain and also in Africa 1858; with F. C. Burnand,
W. S. Gilbert and others established Fun 1861, and executed
the cartoons; exhibited 2 pictures at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk
st. 1856–61; drew nearly all the illustrations for The Arrow
fortnightly paper, 10 numbers only 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864; scene
painter Covent Garden 1867–9; an editor and proprietor of
The Tomahawk, a Saturday journal of satire, for which he did
the cartoons No. 1 May 11, 1867 to No. 160 May 28, 1870, his
cartoons attacking the queen were much noticed; went to U.S.
of America as a caricaturist on Frank Leslie’s papers 1870;
manager of several New York theatres; manager of Strobridge
lithographic co. Cincinnati 1880–5; founded the Matt Morgan art
pottery co. 1883 and the Cincinnati art students’ league; his
panoramic pictures of American civil war exhibited Cincinnati
1886; painted in England, Rotten Row and Behind the Scenes;
illustrated Neptune’s Heroes by W. H. D. Adams 1861, and the
American war 1874; painted a large canvass Christ entering
Jerusalem which was exhibited in the provinces; painted scenes
for Mr. Barnes of New York 1889, and the scenery for The
Brazilian 1890. _d._ of lumbago New York 2 June 1890. _The Mask_
(1868) 97 _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 14 June 1890 p._ 9
_portrait_; _The Graphic 14 June 1890 p._ 663 _portrait_.
MORGAN, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (eld. son of Owen Richard Morgan,
port magistrate, Colombo, Ceylon, _d._ 1821). _b._ Prince st.
Colombo 21 Feb. 1821; ed. at the Colombo academy 1834–9; a
law student under sir William O’Carr 1839; a proctor to 1846;
barrister at Ceylon 1846; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858; district
judge of Colombo Oct. 1856; acting puisne justice of supreme
court of Ceylon 1857; acting senior puisne justice 1860; queen’s
advocate for Ceylon 1863, and 1873 to death; chief justice of
Ceylon 1 May 1874 to 1875; knighted by patent 20 July 1874. _d._
Colombo 27 Jany. 1876. _W. Digby’s Forty years of official life
of sir R. F. Morgan_ 2 _vols._ (1879); _Law Times lx_ 332 (1876).
MORGAN, SYDNEY, LADY MORGAN (eld. child of Robert Mac Owen,
actor, who changed his name to Owenson 1744–1812). _b._ Dublin
25 Dec. 1783; an actress as the Infant Prodigy in Ireland about
1788; governess in family of James Fetherstone-Haugh of Bracklyn
castle, Westmeath 1798–1800; author of St. Clare or the heiress
of Desmond 1804, translated into Dutch; The novice of St.
Dominick 4 vols. 1805; The wild Irish girl 1806, 7 ed. 1808; her
opera The first attempt, produced at T.R. Dublin 4 March 1807,
ran several nights and brought her £400; became a permanent
member of household of marquess of Abercorn about 1810; _m._ 20
Jany. 1812 sir Thomas Charles Morgan of Dublin, surgeon, he _d._
28 Aug. 1843; author of O’Donnell, a national tale 3 vols. 1814;
Florence M’Carthy 4 vols. 1818; France 1817, 4 ed. 1818; Italy
2 vols. 1821; Life of Salvator Rosa 2 vols. 1824, republished
1855; The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys 4 vols. 1827; The book of
the boudoir 2 vols. 1829; France, 2 vols. 1830; Dramatic Scenes
2 vols. 1833; The Princess 3 vols. 1835; Woman and her master 2
vols. 1840; granted civil list pension of £300 14 March 1838,
the first pension of the kind given to a woman; removed from
Kildare st. Dublin to 11 William st. Albert Gate, London 1839.
_d._ Lowndes sq. London 14 April 1859. _bur._ in old Brompton
cemetery, tomb by Westmacott placed over her grave, bust of her
by D’Angers dated 1830 and portrait by Berthen in Irish national
gallery. _W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Lady Morgan, her career literary
and personal_ (1860); _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 73,
313–19, 355 _portrait_; _H. F. Chorley’s the authors of England_
(1861) 42–45 _portrait_; _The Queens of Society 3 ed._ (1867)
236–61; _A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed._ (1877) 214–27;
_J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters_ (1863) 285–353; _S. J.
Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855) _p._ 747 _portrait_; _W. H.
D. Adams’s Women of fashion i_ 265–331 (1878); _The Critic xix_
37 (1859) _portrait_.
MORGAN, THOMAS, entered Bombay army 1800; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I.
17 Oct. 1801, captain 1 Nov. 1817; lieut. col. 7 N.I. 4 Sept.
1827 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. of 14 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to
1833, of 13 N.I. 1833, of 7 N.I. 1835, of 17 N.I. 1838, and
of First Bombay European regiment, right wing 1839 to 1841;
commander at Candeish 4 May 1839 to 1842; col. 17 N.I. 27 Dec.
1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ at residence of Mrs.
General Morgan, Singleton, Middle Wordfield road, Torquay 6 Dec.
1856.
MORGAN, THOMAS. _b._ 18 April 1819; ed. Eton; merchant London;
associate of British archæological association 1845, vice
president, hon. treasurer 1875–90, contributed many papers on
Roman archæology to the Journal; a Spanish scholar; F.S.A. 1875;
author of Romano-British mosaic pavements, a history of their
discovery, etc. 1886. _d._ Hillside house, Streatham, Surrey 13
Jany. 1892. _Journal British Archæological soc. xlviii_ 86–8
(1892).
MORGAN, SIR WILLIAM. _b._ Wilshampstead near Bedford 1829;
arrived in South Australia Feb. 1849; a gold digger at Bendigo
1851; purchased the grocery store of Messrs. Boord brothers,
Adelaide, which became one of the leading mercantile houses in
the colony; member of legislative council of South Australia 6
Aug. 1869; chief secretary in the legislative council June 1875
to 25 March 1876 and June 1877 to Oct. 1878; prime minister
Oct. 1878 to June 1881; called the Cobden of South Australia;
K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. _d._ Brighton 2 Nov. 1883. _bur._
Wilshampstead.
MORGAN, WILLIAM DOMETT. _b._ 2 Oct. 1821; ensign 22 Bengal N.I.
1 April 1841, captain 15 May 1855; commandant of 32 Punjaub
Pioneers 7 Dec. 1859 to 1879; lieut. col. Bengal staff corp 12
Dec. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881;
general 22 Oct. 1889; was in seven severe actions during Indian
mutiny 1857. _d._ 13 Frant road, Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1892.
MORGAN, WILLIAM VAUGHAN. _b._ Glasbury Breconshire 1826; captain
3 Middlesex infantry militia 27 Aug. 1868; a familiar figure in
society; a supporter of the London homœopathic hospital, Great
Ormond st. 1858, a director 1866, treasurer 1875, chairman
1885, and a munificent donor to its funds; established the
Homœopathic convalescent home at Eastbourne 1888; offered St.
George’s hospital £1000 a year for five years for a fair trial
of homœopathy in the wards; took part in the discussion in The
Times on homœopathy; resided 5 The Boltons, South Kensington.
_d._ Grasse, France Feb. 1892. _bur._ Cannes.
MORGAN, WILLIAM WRAY, printer 67 Barbican, London; founder,
proprietor and editor of the Freemason’s chronicle Jany. 1875.
_d._ New Barnett, Herts. 23 June 1893.
MORI, FRANCIS or Frank (son of Nicolas Mori, violinist
1797–1839). _b._ 1820; professor of singing at the Crystal
palace, Sydenham to death; composer of Despair, nocturne for
the P. Forte 1846; Who shall be fairest, a ballad 1857; Twelve
songs for voice and piano 1861; The river sprite, a comic opera,
written by G. Linley 1865, produced at Covent Garden 9 Feb.
1865; F. Mori’s New songs 1865, nine numbers; The vintager’s
evening song, a quartett, in Cramer’s Glees 1874 No. 47; and
upwards of 90 other pieces of music 1843–74. _d._ Chamant near
Senlis, France 2 Aug. 1873.
MORIARTY, DAVID (son of David Moriarty). _b._ Derryvrin,
parish of Kilcarah, co. Kerry 18 Aug. 1814; ed. at Maynooth;
vice-rector of and professor of sacred scripture in the Irish
college at Paris 1839–45; rector of Foreign missionary college
of Allhallows, Drumcondra, Dublin 1845–54, president on death
of the founder Rev. John Hand; coadjutor bishop of Kerry 8
March 1854, bishop of Kerry 22 July 1856 to death, consecrated
in pro-cathedral, Dublin 25 April 1854; many of his pastoral
letters and sermons attracted much attention; denounced the
Fenian brotherhood and opposed home rule. _d._ the palace,
Killarney 1 Oct. 1877. _M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii_ 63,
375 (1876); _Graphic xvi_ 372 (1877) _portrait_.
MORIARTY, EDWARD AUBREY (son of Christopher Moriarty of
Wellington lodge, co. Dublin). _b._ Cappagh house, Galway 1819;
ed. at private sch. Dublin and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839;
studied in Germany 1839–46; professor of English literature,
Royal academy of trade, Berlin 1843–6; translated serial works
of Charles Dickens into German 1852; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849;
contributed to Edinburgh review; director general of Cologne and
Frankfort railway; author with J.D.F. Neigebaur of London ein
handbuch für Reisende 1843. _d._ 3 Hare court, Inner Temple,
London 13 July 1874. _bur._ Catholic cemetery, Kensal green 16
July. _Law Times lvii_ 275–76 (1874).
MORICE, DAVID ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Morice of Aberdeen,
advocate). _b._ Aberdeen 1816; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal
coll. Aberdeen; admitted member of Society of advocates in
Aberdeen 1837; legal assessor to town council of Aberdeen 1866;
provost of Old Aberdeen; member of council of procurators,
vice president 1872; published A handbook of British maritime
law 1857. _d._ Old Aberdeen 27 March 1876. _bur._ Wellfield
cemetery, Aberdeen. _Law Times lx_ 439 (1876).
MORIER, DAVID RICHARD (3 son of Isaac Morier, consul general of
the Levant company at Constantinople 1750–1817). _b._ Smyrna 8
Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow; secretary to political mission sent
by British government to Ali Pasha of Janina and to Turkish
governors of the Morea and other provinces Jany. 1804, took
entire charge of the mission May 1807; attached to Robert
Adair’s embassy 1808; returned to England July 1812; attaché at
Vienna 1813, secretary 1814; British consul general in Paris
Sept. 1815, retired on a pension on abolition of his office
5 April 1832; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederated
states at Berne 5 June 1832, retired on pension 19 June 1847;
author of What has religion to do with politics? 1848; The basis
of morality 1869; Photo, the Suliote, a tale of modern Greece 3
vols. 1857. _d._ 45 Montagu sq. London 13 July 1877.
MORIER, JOHN PHILIP (brother of the preceding). _b._ Smyrna
9 Nov. 1776; attached to embassy at Constantinople 5 April
1799; despatched on special service to Egypt 22 Dec. 1799;
consul general in Albania 3 Dec. 1803; secretary of legation at
Washington 5 April 1810; a comr. in Spanish America Oct. 1811;
acting under secretary of state for foreign affairs in London
Aug. 1815 to 1816; envoy extraordinary to court of Saxony at
Dresden 5 Feb. 1816, retired on pension 5 Jany. 1825; author of
Memoir of a campaign with the Ottoman army in Egypt 1801. _d._
London 20 Aug. 1853.
MORIER. SIR ROBERT BURNETT DAVID (only son of David Richard
Morier 1784–1877). _b._ Paris 31 March 1826; ed at Balliol
coll. Oxf. B.A. 1849; a clerk in the education department Jany.
1851 to Oct. 1852; unpaid attaché at Vienna 5 Sept. 1853; paid
attaché at Berlin 20 Feb. 1858; second secretary at Vienna 1
Oct. 1862, British comr. for arrangement of tariff 1 March 1865;
secretary of legation at Athens 10 Sept. 1865 and at Frankfort
30 Dec. 1865; secretary of legation at Darmstadt 1866–71; chargé
d’affaires at Stuttgart 18 July 1871, transferred to Munich 30
Jany. 1872; minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 1 March 1876,
transferred to Madrid 22 June 1881; ambassador at St. Petersburg
1 Dec. 1884 to death; C.B. 9 Jany. 1866, K.C.B. 16 Oct. 1882,
G.C.B. 30 Sept. 1887; P.C. 27 Jany. 1885; G.C.M.G. 13 Feb.
1886; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1889; hon. LL.D. Edinb.; published in
the Cobden Club series, Agrarian legislation of Prussia 1870,
and Local government in Germany, England and Prussia 1875. _d._
Montreux, Lake of Geneva 16 Nov. 1893. _Black and White 25 Nov.
1893 p._ 663 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 31 Dec. 1891 p._ 9
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 25 Nov. 1893 p._ 659 _portrait_.
NOTE.--His only son Victor Morier, traveller, died at sea 27 May
1892 aged 25, when proceeding to take up his duties in Manicaland as
assistant civil comr. to the Anglo-Portuguese delimitation commission.
MORIER, WILLIAM (brother of John Philip Morier 1776–1853). _b._
Smyrna 25 Sept. 1790; ed. at Harrow; entered navy Nov. 1803;
served at defence of Cadiz 1810, reduction of island of Ponza
1811 and bombardment of Stonington 1813; commanded the Harrier
and Childers sloops successively on the North Sea station 1828;
captain 18 Jany. 1830; retired V.A. 16 June 1862. _d._ Brunswick
house, Eastbourne 29 July 1864.
MORISON, SIR ALEXANDER (son of Andrew Morison of Anchorfield
near Edinburgh). _b._ Anchorfield 1 May 1779; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; M.D. 12 Sept. 1799; L.C.P. Edinb.
1800, F.C.P. Edinb. 1801; removed from Edinb. to London 1808;
L.R.C.P. London 11 April 1808, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; inspecting
physician of lunatic asylums in Surrey 1810; physician to
Bethlehem hospital 7 May 1835; physician to princess Charlotte
and prince Leopold 1816; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July
1838; author of Outlines of lectures on mental diseases 1825;
Cases of mental disease with practical observations on the
medical treatment 1828; The physiognomy of mental diseases 1840.
_d._ Balerno Hill house near Edinburgh 14 March 1866. _bur._
Currie churchyard 20 March. _Munk’s College of physicians iii_
61 (1878).
MORISON, JAMES (son of Robert Morison minister of the united
secession church, _d._ 5 Aug. 1855 aged 74). _b._ Bathgate,
Linlithgowshire 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at univ. of Edinb. and
divinity hall of united secession church, Edinb.; ordained
minister of Clark’s Lane church, Kilmarnock 29 Sept. 1840,
suspended by Kilmarnock presbytery 9 March 1841 for his tract
entitled The question “What must I do to be saved” answered
by Philanthropos 1840, his suspension was confirmed by the
synod 11 June 1841, he declined to recognise the decision and
was supported by his congregation; with three other suspended
ministers and 9 laymen formed the Evangelical union at a meeting
in Kilmarnock 16–18 May 1843; established a theological academy
1843, professor of exegetical theology, and principal 1843 to
death; left Kilmarnock for Glasgow 1851, where North Dundas
st. church was built for him 1853, retired 1884; edited The
Evangelical Repository, a quarterly magazine 1854–67; D.D. of
Adrian univ. in Michigan 1862, and of Glasgow 1883; his portrait
by R. Gibb, R.S.A., presented to him 1889; author of Not quite
a Christian 1840; The nature of the atonement 1841, new ed.
1890; Saving faith 1844, 9 ed. 1850; An exposition of the ninth
chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1849, new ed. 1888;
Commentary on the gospel according to St. Matthew 1870; Mark’s
Memoirs of Jesus Christ, a commentary 1873. _d._ Florentine
Bank, Hillhead, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1893. _Memorial volume of
the ministerial jubilee of principal Morison_ (1889); _John
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 302–6; _Herzog’s Religious
Encyclopædia_, _Schaff’s ed. i_ 776 (1881).