hygeist 1770–1840). _b._ London 20 April 1832; entered Lincoln
college, Oxford March 1850, B.A. and M.A. 1859; a student of
Lincoln’s inn 1857; wrote for the Saturday Review; member of
Athenæum club and of committee of the London library; member of
the Positivist Society, occasionally lectured at Newton hall;
author of The Life of St. Bernard 1863, new ed. 1868; Gibbon
1878 and Macaulay 1882 in John Morley’s Men of letters series;
Madame de Maintenon, an étude 1885; The service of man, an essay
towards the religion of the future 1887. _d._ Fitzjohn’s Avenue,
Hampstead 26 Feb. 1888.
MORISON, JOHN (son of John Morison, farmer _d._ 1833). _b._
Millseat of Craigston, parish of King Edward, Aberdeenshire
8 July 1791; apprentice to a watchmaker at Banff; studied at
Hoxton academy 1811–14; ordained pastor of Union congregational
chapel, Sloane st. Chelsea 17 Feb. 1815; pastor of Trevor
chapel, Chelsea Dec. 1816 to death; edited the Evangelical
Magazine 1824 to 1857; D.D. Glasgow 1830; author of Lectures
on the principal obligations of life 1822; Counsels to a
newly-wedded pair 1830; An exposition of the book of Psalms, 3
vols. 1832; A tribute of filial sympathy or memories of John
Morison of Millseat, Aberdeenshire 1833; A commentary on the
Acts of the Apostles in the catechetical form 1839; The fathers
and founders of the London missionary society, 2 vols. 1840, new
ed. 1844; The protestant reformation in all countries 1843. _d._
27 Montpelier square, London 13 June 1859. _bur._ Abney park
cemet. 20 June. _J. Kennedy’s Memoirs of John Morison_ (1860);
_Evangelical Mag. 1859 pp._ 513, 608–20.
MORISON, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Jones Morison of Greenfield, co.
Clackmannan). Cadet Madras establishment 1799; lieut. R.A. 31
Dec. 1800; lieut. col. 17 July 1827; secretary to military board
at Madras 1809; formed and directed the Madras commissariat
1810–25; superintended geographical and statistical survey of
Madras territory 1811–12; resident at court of Travancore;
administered with J. M. Macleod government of Mysore; member
of supreme council of India 1834–37, being the first military
officer selected for a seat; president of council of India and
deputy governor of Bengal during lord Auckland’s absence; col.
Madras artillery 13 Aug. 1840 to death; returned to England
1840; major general 23 Nov. 1841; M.P. Clackmannan and Kinross
1842 to death; C.B. 4 Sep. 1821; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 3
March 1842; F.R.A.S. _d._ 16 Savile row, Piccadilly, London 15
May 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 90 (1851).
MORLAND, SIR HENRY (3 son of John Morland barrister). _b._ 9
April 1837; ed. at Haversham and Bromsgrove schools; entered
Indian navy 5 June 1852; captain 1877 placed on retired list
with rank of hon. lieut. col. 30 April 1863; attached to
the Indian marines 1863; transport officer, dockmaster and
signal officer at Bombay 1865–79; superintended equipment and
despatch of fleet of transports of Abyssinian expedition 1867;
conservator of port of Bombay and registrar of shipping 1873;
member of Bombay corporation 1868, member of town council 1877,
chairman of the corporation 23 June 1886 to death; presented
the Bombay jubilee address to the queen at Windsor castle 30
June 1887, when he was knighted; appointed by grand lodge of
Scotland provincial grand master for Western India 1870; grand
master of all Scottish freemasonry in India 1874; chief founder
of the Mahometan lodge, Islam; secretary of Bombay geographical
society some years; Assoc. Instit. C.E. 5 Dec. 1882. _d._
Rampart row, Bombay 28 July 1891.
MORLAND, JOHN (son of Thomas Morland builder and umbrella
manufacturer). _b._ Bridge house place, Newington, Surrey 19
Dec. 1794; wholesale and retail umbrella manufacturer Minories,
London, removed to Eastcheap, resided at Croydon 1844 to death;
overseer and then an elder among the Friends, long connected
with Croydon school, the Spitalfields soup society and the Peace
society. _d._ Croydon 21 Oct. 1867. _Biographical catalogue of
lives of Friends_ (1888) 447–9.
MORLEY, EDMUND PARKER 2 earl of (2 son of 1 earl of Morley
1772–1840). _b._ London 10 June 1810; styled viscount Boringdon
1817–40; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830; lord of the bed chamber
to Prince Albert 15 Feb. 1840; succeeded 15 March 1840; col. of
south Devon militia 8 Jany. 1845 to 1858; a lord in waiting to
the queen 24 July 1846 to Feb. 1852. _d._ Whiteway, Chudleigh,
Devon 28 Aug. 1864.
MORLEY, FRANCES PARKER, Countess of (dau. of Thomas Talbot of
Wymondham, Norfolk). _b._ 1781; celebrated as a woman of wit
and the “first of talkers”; a painter; _m._ 23 Aug. 1809, as
his second wife, John Parker 1 Earl of Morley, _b._ 1772, _d._
14 March 1840; lithographed the plates in Portraits of the
Spruggins family, arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins
1829; author of The flying burgomaster, a legend of the Black
Forest 1832 anon.; The royal intellectual bazaar, a prospectus
of a plan for the improvement of the fashionable circle 1832
anon; The man without a name, 2 vols. 1852; edited Dacre, a
novel, 3 vols. 1834. _d._ Saltram, Plympton 6 Dec. 1857. _bur._
in family vault at Plympton St. Mary.
MORLEY, ATKINSON. _b._ 1781; studied medicine at St. George’s
hospital; proprietor of the Burlington hotel 19 and 20 Cork
st. and of Morley’s hotel 1–3 Trafalgar sq. London. _d._ Old
Burlington st. London 14 July 1858. _Medical Times 24 July 1858
p._ 91.
NOTE.--He left £100,000 with which was founded the Atkinson Morley’s
Convalescent hospital. Wimbledon (in connection with St. George’s
hospital, London) hospital opened 14 July 1869, receives upwards of 600
patients yearly and contains 80 beds.
MORLEY, SIR FRANCIS BROCKMAN (1 son of George Morley, barrister
of Inner Temple). _b._ Brompton, London 1819; ensign 90 foot 5
April 1839; lieut. 40 foot 27 May 1842, captain 18 Aug. 1848,
sold out 23 Dec. 1853; served under sir Charles Napier and lord
Gough in India; exon. of H.M.’s body guard of yeomen of the
guard 24 Oct. 1868 to death; hon. col. 3 batt. Middlesex regt.
militia 1886 to death; chairman of court of quarter sessions,
Middlesex 25 July 1869, resigned 1889; K.C.B. 2 Feb. 1886. _d._
14 Norland place, Notting hill, London 20 April 1892. _bur._
Brompton cemet. 25 April.
MORLEY, FREDERICK. _b._ Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 16 Dec. 1850;
a frame work knitter; a left handed batsman and one of the best
fast bowlers of his day; engaged by the Notts. commercial club
1869, at Bolton 1870–1; played his first match at Lords 6–8 May
1872; played with the England Eleven 1872–3; engaged at Lords
1874–81; went to Australia with the seventh English team 1882–3.
_d._ 28 Sept. 1884. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 346–7.
MORLEY, GEORGE (son of rev. George Morley president of Wesleyan
conference 1830, _d._ 10 Sept. 1843). _b._ about 1802; ed. at
Woodhouse Grove school, Yorkshire; apprenticed to a draper;
L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1832; became an eminent surgeon at 18
Park place, Leeds; lectured on chemistry at Leeds school of
medicine many years; one of the medical experts at trials of the
prisoners Wm. Dove and Wm. Palmer in 1856. _d._ Jersey 14 Aug.
1867.
MORLEY, HENRY (son of Henry Morley of Midhurst, Sussex). _b._
100 Hatton garden, London 15 Sept. 1822; ed. at a Moravian
school at Neuweid on the Rhine; studied at King’s college,
London 1838–43; passed the Apothecaries hall 1843; partner
with a doctor at Madeley, Shropshire 1844–8; kept a school at
Manchester 1848, and at Liverpool 1848–50; wrote in Household
Words and All the year round about 1850–65; sub-editor of The
Examiner, then editor; English lecturer to evening classes at
King’s college, London 1857–65; professor of English language
and literature at University college, London 2 Dec. 1865 to
1890; professor of English language and literature at Queen’s
college, London 1878–90; principal of University hall, Gordon
sq. London 1882–90; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1879; lived at 8 Upper
Park road, Hampstead 3 May 1858 to 1889; author of Sunrise in
Italy 1848; A defence of ignorance 1851; Palissy the Potter
1852, 4 ed. 1878; Jerome Cardan, 2 vols. 1854; Cornelius
Agrippa, 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of Bartholomew fair 1859;
English writers, 2 vols. 1864–67; English writers, 4 vols.
1887–89; Clement Marot, 2 vols. 1871; A first sketch of English
literature 1873, 13 ed. 1886; editor of Cassell’s library of
English literature, 5 vols. 1875–81; Morley’s Universal library,
63 vols. 1883–8; Cassell’s National library, 214 vols. 1886–90;
The Carisbrooke library, 14 vols. 1889–91; Companion Poets,
9 vols. 1891–2. _d._ Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 14 May 1894.
_Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 375–76; _Graphic 19 May 1894 p._ 582
_portrait_.
MORLEY, SIR ISAAC (son of Wm. Morley). _b._ Doncaster 1801; a
merchant at Doncaster; mayor of Doncaster 1841; knighted 1841.
_d._ Beechfield, Doncaster 1 Dec. 1879.
MORLEY, SAMUEL (youngest child of John Morley of Wood st.
London, hosier, _d._ 1848). _b._ Well st. Hackney 15 Oct. 1809;
hosier with his brother John Morley in Wood st. Cheapside,
London 1842–55, sole partner 1855; a frame-work knitter at
Nottingham 1860; built mills at Loughborough, Leicester, Heanor
in Derbyshire, and Daybrook and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.;
his business was the largest in the textile industries of its
class, employing about 8,000 people; took Thomas Hill into
partnership 1860; chairman of the dissenters’ parliamentary
committee 1847; treasurer of the Ancient Merchants’ lectures
1849–79; organized the Administrative reform association May
1855; treasurer to Home Missionary society 1858; promoted
religious services in theatres 1860; chairman of the Bank act
and currency reform committee 1861; contributed £6,000 to
erection of Congregationalist memorial hall in Farringdon st.
London 1875; spent £14,000 in building chapels 1864–70; M.P.
Nottingham 1865, unseated on petition 1866; contested Bristol
April 1868; M.P. Bristol 16 Nov. 1868 to 18 Nov. 1885; seconded
the address in house of commons 1871; member for city of London
of London school board Nov. 1870 to Dec. 1876; a great supporter
of the temperance movement; refused a peerage 24 June 1885;
author of The drinking usages of the commercial room 1862.
_d._ Hall place near Tonbridge 5 Sept. 1886. _bur._ Abney Park
cemet. London, portrait by H. T. Wells R.A. in Library of
Congregationalist memorial hall, marble statue of him erected at
Bristol. _J. C. Harrison’s S. Morley, personal reminiscences_
(1886); _E. Hodder’s Life of S. Morley_ (1889) _portrait_; _The
Congregationalist xv_ 711–19 (1886); _I.L.N. lviii_ 158–169
(1871) _portrait_; _Biograph v_ 51–5 (1881).
MORLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; a fitter and setter up of stocking
and point net lace frames in Nottingham; introduced the use
of a 5-bar tackle on the point net frame; with John Kendall
constructed the straight bolt which had great rapidity of
movement 1811; invented the circular bolt; invented a machine
for making plain net which brought him much profit; became the
leading man in Nottingham in the lace trade; in business with
Messrs. Boden of Derby, retired 1853. _d._ 1855. _Felkin’s
Machine-wrought hosiery_ (1867) 313–5; _Lace in Ure’s Dictionary
of Arts iii_ 32 (1875).
MORLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1 Jany. 1787; established the first
wholesale Manchester warehouse in London at 36 Gutter lane
Cheapside 1806; chairman of several railway companies in the
early days. _d._ Windmill house, Blackheath, Kent 10 March 1884.
NOTE.--His eld. son William Morley chairman of Royal Albert orphan
asylum. _d._ April 1883.
MORLEY, WILLIAM HOOK (son of George Morley barrister). _b._
1815; barrister M.T. 12 Jany. 1838; connected with appeal cases
from India, having a knowledge of Persian and Arabic; edited
The history of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia by Mir Khwand
1848; author of Analytical digest of reported cases decided
in the supreme court of judication in India 2 vols 1849–50,
New Ser. vol. 1 1852 no more published; The administration of
justice in British India, its past and present history 1858;
On the Muhammedan laws prevalent in India; Description of a
planispheric astrolabe constructed by Sháh Husain 1856; A
descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in Arabic and Persian
in the library of the Royal Asiatic society 1854; The coins of
the Atabek princes of Syria and Asia Minor. _d._ 35 Brompton sq.
London 21 May 1860. _Numismatic Chronicle xx Proceeding_ 34–5
(1860).
MORNINGTON, WILLIAM POLE TYLNEY LONG WELLESLY 4 Earl of (only
son of 3 earl of Mornington 1763–1845). _b._ 22 May 1788; sec.
of embassy and minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople 1807;
sec. at Copenhagen; succeeded 22 Feb. 1845; ranger of Epping
forest; constable of Maryborough castle; M.P. Wiltshire 1818–20;
M.P. St. Ives 1830–1; M.P. Essex 1831–2. _d._ at his lodgings
Thayer st. Manchester sq. London 1 July 1857. _G.M. iii_ 215
(1857).
NOTE.--He _m._ (1) 14 March 1812 Catherine eld. dau. and co heir of Sir
James Tylney Long, Bart., and assumed additional surnames of Tylney
Long.
At the wedding the lady’s dress cost 700 guineas the bonnet 150, and
the veil 200. Her jewellery cost 25,000 guineas. Eight hundred wedding
favours were distributed at a cost of a guinea and a half each. She
possessed in landed estates alone £1,500,000. He was the second person
whom the Court of chancery deprived of paternal rights by withdrawing
his children out of his care. His life was insured for about a quarter
of a million, but he lived latterly upon an allowance of £10 a week
from the duke of Wellington.
MORPHETT, SIR JOHN (son of Nathaniel Morphett, solicitor).
_b._ London 4 May 1809; landed at Kangaroo Island 11 Sept.
1836 and was present at the proclamation of colony of South
Australia 28 Dec. 1836; a general merchant, helped to lay out
the town of Adelaide 1837; member of committee for protection of
aborigines 6 March 1838; founded the Literary Association and
Mechanics’ Institute; treasurer of the corporation of Adelaide
5 Dec. 1840; member of the first legislature of the colony 15
June 1843 to 1857; speaker 20 Aug. 1851 to 1855; member of the
legislative council 1857–73; chief secretary 4 Feb. to 8 Oct.
1861; president of the council March 1865 to 1873; knighted by
patent 30 April 1870. _d._ Cumming, South Australia 7 Nov. 1892.
_I.L.N. xxi_ 141, 142 (1852) _portrait_.
MORPHINOS, NARCISSUS. _b._ 1808 or 1809; minister of the Greek
church, London Wall, London 1848–74. _d._ 1 Sutherland place,
Bayswater, London 14 July 1878. _Ritchie’s Religious Life of
London_ (1870) 53–7.
MORRALL, MICHAEL THOMAS. A needle manufacturer at Studley works,
Warwickshire; introduced the grooveless needle into London 1843;
author of History and description of needle making 1852, 5 ed.
1866 portrait.
MORRELL, CHARLES FRANCIS (only son of Thomas Samuel Morrell of
The Grove, Bayons park, Lincolnshire). _b._ 12 March 1853; ed.
Cheltenham coll. and Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1875; barrister
M.T. 13 June 1877; edited Sir R. Lane’s Exchequer Reports
1605–12, 1884; author of The handy book of the law of horses
1881; A popular statement of the law of wills 1882; Probate
and administrations, a handbook for executors 1882; A popular
statement of the law of insurance 1883; A concise statement of
the bankruptcy act 1883, 2 ed. 1884; Reports of cases under
the bankruptcy act 1883 etc. 9 vols. 1885–93; Bankruptcy, a
manual of practical law 1891; Insurance, a manual 1892. _d._ 2
Tavistock place, London 3 Feb. 1894.
MORRELL, FREDERICK JOSEPH (2 son of Baker Morrell, solicitor
to univ. of Oxford, _d._ 10 April 1854 aged 75). _b._ Oxford
25 Jany. 1811; solicitor at Oxford 1832 to death; solicitor
to univ. of Oxford Dec. 1853 to death; founder of the Oxford
churchmen’s union. _d._ 85 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13
Jany. 1883. _bur._ Broughton churchyard 18 Jany. _Solicitors’
Journal xxvii_ 185, 201 (1883).
MORRELL, JAMES (1 son of James Morrell of Headington hill near
Oxford, _d._ 1855). _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; master of Headington
harriers 1836 to 21 March 1847; master of the Berkshire fox
hounds 1847–57; sold his hounds for 2,600 guineas and his horses
for £3,765 2s. 14 April 1858; sheriff of Berks. Feb. 1853. _d._
Headington hill house 12 Sept. 1863. _Sporting Review xl_ 381–4
(1858) _portrait_, _xlviii_ 436–48 (1862), _l_ 326–8 (1863).
MORRELL, THOMAS BAKER (5 son of Baker Morrell). _b._ Oxford
1815; ed. at Balliol coll., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B. and D.D.
1863; R. of Henley on Thames 1852–62; coadjutor bishop of
Edinburgh Nov. 1862 to Aug. 1869 when he resigned; author with
W. W. How of Psalms and hymns 1854. _d._ 26 Royal York crescent,
Clifton 15 Nov. 1877.
MORRIN, JOSEPH. _b._ Dumfriesshire about 1792; studied medicine
in Quebec, Edinburgh and London; practised at Quebec, became the
leading physician in Lower Canada; one of the three founders of
Beaufort asylum; mayor of Quebec twice; the first president of
medical board of Lower Canada; gave a large sum of money for
erection of a Presbyterian college in Quebec, known as Morrin
college. _d._ Quebec 29 Aug. 1861.
MORRIS, SIR BENJAMIN (son of George Morris Wall). _b._ Waterford
1798; ensign 25 foot 29 June 1815, served at Gibraltar and in
the West Indies, captain 19 Sep. 1826, sold out 18 Oct. 1833;
sheriff of Waterford 1836 and 1854; mayor of Waterford 1845–47
and 1867–68; knighted by the marquess of Normanby 1836. _d._ the
Mall, Waterford 20 Dec. 1875.
MORRIS, CHARLES D’URBAN (6 son of rear admiral Henry Gage
Morris 1770–1851). _b._ Charmouth, Dorset 17 Feb. 1827; ed.
Worcester coll. Oxf. 1845; scholar Lincoln coll. 1846–50; fellow
of Oriel coll. 1851–54; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; went to U.S. of
America 1853; rector of Trinity school, New York 1853–6; kept
a private school for boys at Lake Mohegan; professor in New
York univ.; professor of Latin and Greek in the Johns Hopkins
univ. Baltimore 1876 to death; author of Principia Latina
1860; A compendious grammar of Attic Greek 1869, 4 ed. 1876;
A compendious grammar of the Latin language 1870, 4 ed. 1876;
Probatio Latina 1871; Latin reading book 1873. _d._ Baltimore
7 Feb. 1886. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 411 (1888);
_Athenæum 6 March 1886 p._ 327.
MORRIS, CHARLES HENRY (4 son of Sir John Morris, 2 baronet
1775–1855). _b._ 27 Feb. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1842,
captain 3 Nov. 1848; military comr. to 2 corps of French army
in the Crimea 1855; A.A.G. in Crimea 1855–6; inspector of
volunteers 1 March 1860 to April 1865; military attaché Vienna
1874–5; L.G. 1 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank
of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855; an officer of the
Legion of Honour. _d._ 6 Portugal st. Park lane, London 12 Oct.
1887.
MORRIS, DAVID. _b._ 1800; a banker at Carmarthen; M.P.
Carmarthen 24 July 1837 to death. _d._ Carmarthen 30 Sep. 1864.
MORRIS, SIR EDMUND FINUCANE (3 son of Samuel Morris). _b._
Jamaica 1792; ensign 49 foot 21 June 1810, lieut. col. 22 Nov.
1836 to 7 Nov. 1843, when placed on half pay; served in Canada,
at the Cape of Good Hope and in Bengal 1821–43, and on his
return was only remaining officer who had set out in 1821; aide
de camp to the queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; col. 97 foot
14 May 1859 to 15 Dec. 1861; col. 49 foot 15 Dec. 1861 to death;
general 13 March 1868; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 13 March 1867.
_d._ St. George’s lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 4 Dec. 1871.
MORRIS, EDWARD. One of the earliest advocates of temperance
in Scotland; author of Henry Bell: The history of temperance
and teetotal societies in Glasgow 1855. _d._ Aug. 1860. _S.
Couling’s History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 334.
MORRIS, SIR EVAN (son of Joseph Morris, leather manufacturer).
_b._ Wrexham 1842; ed. at Birmingham and Wrexham; solicitor of
firm of Evan Morris and co. at Wrexham 1872 to death; mayor
of Wrexham 1889; knighted by the queen at Pale, Llanderfel,
North Wales, while on a visit to Wrexham 27 Aug. 1889; captain
1 volunteer batt. royal Welsh fusiliers 25 June 1879; county
councillor of Denbighshire; resided at Roseneath, Wrexham. _d._
Eastbourne 18 April 1890.
MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN (eld. son of rear admiral Henry Gage
Morris of Beverley, Yorkshire 1770–1851). _b._ Cove near Cork
25 March 1810; ed. at Bromsgrove sch. and Worcester coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1834; B.A. Durham 1844; P.C. of Hanging Heaton
near Dewsbury 1834; C. of Taxal, Cheshire 1836; C. of Ch. Ch.
Doncaster 1836; C. of Ordsall, Notts. 1838; C. of Crambe,
Yorkshire 1842; V. of Nafferton near Driffield 1844–54; chaplain
to duke of Cleveland 1844; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1854 to
death; edited the Naturalist, vols. vi to viii, 1856–8; author
of A history of British birds, 6 vols. 1851–7, 3 ed. 1891; A
natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds, 3 vols.
1853–6, 3 ed. 1892; A history of British butterflies 1853, 3 ed.
1853; A natural history of British moths, 4 vols. 1859–70; Dogs
and their doings 1870, 2 ed. 1887; Anecdotes in natural history
1872, 2 ed. 1889; The country seats of noblemen and gentlemen of
Great Britain and Ireland, 5 vols. 1866–80; and about 53 other
books. _d._ Nunburnholme 10 Feb. 1893. _F. Ross’s Celebrities
of the Yorkshire wolds_ (1878) 106–8; _Good Words_, _September_
(1893) _portrait_; _Church portrait journal ii_, 5 (1881)
_portrait_; _The Graphic 25 Feb. 1893 p._ 183 _portrait_.
MORRIS, SIR GEORGE (2 son of colonel Samuel Morris of Littleton,
Tipperary). _b._ 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. 2
dragoon guards 13 June 1805; major 3 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 8
July 1819, when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814;
served in actions and sieges in the West Indies 1795–1801; on
the staff in Portugal and Spain 1808–9; served at Cape of Good
Hope, in France, and at Gibraltar; usher of the black rod to
order of St. Patrick 1841 to death; knighted by patent 1841.
_d._ 32 Gardiner’s place, Mountjoy square, Dublin, May 1858.
MORRIS, HENRY GAGE (2 son of Henry Gage Morris, rear admiral
1770–1851). _b._ 1811; sub-lieut. R.N. 1830; served at battle of
Navarino 1827 and in China 1842; captain 10 May 1856, retired 1
July 1866; retired admiral 27 March 1885; author of Forty five
predictions of the Old Testament 1855. _d._ 21 Queen Anne’s
gate, London 21 Jany. 1891.
MORRIS, JAMES. _b._ 1795; head of firm of Morris, Prevost and
co. merchants 25 Old Broad st. London; a director of bank of
England 1827–80 and governor 1847–48; contested Liverpool 8
Jany. 1835 and Cork 5 July 1841. _d._ 17 Cadogan place, London 9
May 1882.
MORRIS, J. B. On the Irish turf; came to London; purchased
Hungerford from George Osbaldeston for 80 guineas and with him
won the Great Yorkshire handicap twice and the Suffolk stakes
at Newmarket; bought Kingston from lord Ribblesdale for 2,000
guineas and with him won the Goodwood cup, the Northumberland
plate, and the whip at Newmarket; won the Doncaster St. Leger
with Knight of St. George and cleared £30,000, 1854; generally
known by name of Jelly. _Sporting Review xxxix_ 363–4 (1858).
MORRIS, JAMES EDWARD GORDON. _b._ 1803; entered Bombay army
1819; lieut. 24 Bombay N.I. 1821, captain 9 March 1830, major 10
Nov. 1843 to 3 July 1848; lieut. col. of 12 N.I 3 July 1848 to
1853, of 28 N.I. 1853–4, and of 5 N.I. 1854–7; commandant Baroda
20 May 1854 to 22 Sept. 1856; commandant Hyderabad 22 Sept. 1856
to 18 Feb. 1858; col. of 15 N.I. 2 Dec. 1857 to death; M.G. 13
April 1860. _d._ 5 Compton terrace, Brighton 10 March 1867.
MORRIS, JOHN (son of John Morris, timber merchant). _b._
Homerton, London 19 Feb. 1810; ed. at Clifton, Nuneham, and
Parson’s Green, Fulham; pharmaceutical chemist at Kensington
some years; professor of geology and mineralogy at Univ.
college London 1854 to Sept. 1877, emeritus professor 1877 to
death, delivered 1100 lectures; lectured at the Coal exchange
on coal and coal mining; F.G.S. 1845, Lyell medallist 1876,
presented with an address and £600 by Geological soc. 14 July
1870; president of the Geological Association 1877; admitted to
freedom of the Turners’ company 7 Feb. 1878; hon. M.A. Cambridge
6 June 1878; with H. Woodward edited The geological magazine,
vol. 3 1864; author of A catalogue of British fossils 1843 2
ed. 1854; A new geological chart, showing the stratified rocks
1859, new ed. 1865; A series of large geological diagrams 1878;
and upwards of 55 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 22 Bolton
road, St. John’s Wood, London 7 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 13 Jany. _Geological Mag._ (1878) 481–7 _portrait_,
(1886) 95–6; _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xlii_ 44 (1886).