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).
MORRIS, Sir John (son of Edward Morris). b. Wolverhampton 1821; a manufacturer at Wolverhampton; mayor of Wolverhampton 1866–7; knighted on unveiling of statue of prince Albert at Wolverhampton 30 Nov. 1866. d. Bycullah park, Enfield, Middlesex 27 Feb. 1889.
MORRIS, John (son of John Carnac Morris 1798–1858). b. Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Southern India 4 July 1826; ed. at East Shean, Surrey and Harrow 1838 etc.; admitted pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1845; received into Church of Rome 20 May 1846; studied at English college Rome 1846–9; ordained priest Sept. 1849; missioner at Northampton, then at Great Marlow; canon of Northampton 1852; vice-rector of English college at Rome 1852–5; canon of Northampton; private secretary to cardinal Wiseman 1856, and to cardinal Manning 1865; canon penitentiary of Westminster 1861; entered Society of Jesus Feb. 1867, took his first vows at Louvain 1 March 1869; he was successively minister at Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey, socius to the provincial Father Whitty, first superior of the Oxford mission and professor of ecclesiastical history and canon law in the college of St. Beuno, North Wales to 1877 and 1878–9; vice-rector at Roehampton 1879, rector 1880–6; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1889; head of the Jesuits at Farm st. Berkeley sq. London 1891–3; edited Historical papers 1892; author of The life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury 1859, 2 ed. 1885; The last illness of his eminence cardinal Wiseman, 3 ed. 1865; The troubles of our Catholic forefathers, related by themselves, 3 vols. 1872–7; The life of Father John Gerrard, 3 ed. 1881. d. while preaching in the Jesuit church at Wimbledon 22 Oct. 1893.
MORRIS, John Brande (son of rev. John Morris, D.D. schoolmaster). b. New Brentford, Middlesex 4 Sept. 1812; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1837, resigned 24 Jany. 1846; joined the Church of Rome 16 Jany. 1846, ordained priest 1849; professor at Prior Park near Bath 1851; canon of Plymouth cathedral 6 Dec. 1853; domestic chaplain to E. R. Bastard of Kitley, Devon 1852, to sir John Acton of Aldenham hall, Shropshire 1855, and to Coventry Patmore at Heron’s Ghyll, Sussex 1868; later on he was chaplain to the Sœurs de Miséricorde, a convent of nursing nuns at St. Vincent house, 49 Queen st. Hammersmith to death; author of An essay towards the conversion of learned and philosophical Hindus 1843; Nature a parable, a poem 1842; Jesus the son of Mary or the doctrine of the Catholic church upon the incarnation of God the Son, 2 vols. 1851; Taleetha Koomee or the gospel prophecy of our lady’s assumption, a drama 1858; translated for the Library of the Fathers St. Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Romans 1841; and Select works of St. Ephrem 1846. d. 34 Queen st. Hammersmith 9 April 1880. bur. Mortlake.