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.