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).
MORISON, James Augustus Cotter (4 son of James Morison, the 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.