MORRIS, John Carnac (eld. son of John Morris, chairman of H.E.I. Co.) b. 16 Oct. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1813–5; entered Madras civil service 1818; his legs paralysed 1823; F.R.S. 10 March 1831; Telugu translator to government at Madras 1832; civil auditor or accountant general 1839; established the Madras government bank 1834, secretary and treasurer 1834, superintendent 1835; edited the Madras journal of literature and science from 1834; civil auditor and superintendent of stamps 1843; left India 1 July 1846 and settled in London; established a company to run steamers between Milford Haven and Australia by way of Panama; promoter and managing director of London and Eastern banking company, chairman 1855, bank was wound up 1858; author of Telugu selections, with translations and grammatical analyses, Madras 1823, new ed. 1858; A dictionary of English and Teloogoo, 2 vols. Madras 1835. d. Jersey 2 Aug. 1858. bur. St. Heliers. C. C. Prinsep’s Records of Madras civil servants (1885) 101–2.
MORRIS, Mowbray. b. Jamaica 1819; ed. at Cambridge univ.; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841; a contributor to the Times 1847, and manager about 1848–73; m. 6 Nov. 1858 Emily, youngest dau. of Wm. Frederick Augustus Delane, financial manager of The Times. d. 21 April 1874. Publisher’s Circular (1874) 308; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait; The Times 4 May 1874 p. 1.
MORRIS, Richard. b. 1845; inventor of the Morris tube for rifles, patented 25 April 1881; managing director of Morris tube ammunition and safety range company at 7–9 St. Bride st. Ludgate circus, London 1887, afterwards at 11 Haymarket to death, resided at 42 Bennett park, Blackheath. shot himself at 11 Haymarket, London 14 Dec. 1891. The Times 18 Dec. 1891 p. 12.
MORRIS, Richard. b. London 1833; ed. St. John’s coll. Battersea; lecturer on English language and literature King’s coll. school, London 1869–90; cr. LL.D. by archbp. of Canterbury 1870; C. of Ch. Ch. Camberwell 1871; on council of Philological soc., president 1874; on council of Early English text soc.; hon. M.A. of Oxf. 1874; chaplain of Royal masonic institute for boys, Wood Green July 1875, resigned 1888; edited for the Early English text soc. Early English alliterative poems 1864, Sir Gawayne and the Green knight 1864, The story of Genesis and Exodus 1865, Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt 1866, Old English homilies 1868, Chaucer’s translation of Boethius De Consolatione philosophiæ 1868, Legends of the holy rood 1871, An old English miscellany 1872, Cursor mundi 1874; and The Blickling homilies 1874; he also edited The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1866, Specimens of Early English 1867, 3 ed. with W. W. Skeat 1872; Complete works of Edmund Spenser 1869; author of The etymology of local names 1857; Historical outlines of English accidence 1872; English grammar 1875. d. Harold Wood, Essex 12 May 1894. bur. Hornchurch, Essex 17 May. I.L.N. 26 May 1894 p. 643 portrait.
MORRIS, Samuel Sheppard Oakley (3 son of rev. Ebenezer Morris of Llanelly, Carmarthen). b. 1847; ed. Christ’s hospital, London 1857, scholar, a Grecian 1866; of Jesus coll. Oxf. 1866, scholar 1866–71; B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; assist. master Ystrad-Menrig gr. sch. 1870–2; head master Dolgelly gr. sch. 1873–8; C. of Dolgelly 1873–8; naval instructor 1878, chaplain R.N. 2 Aug. 1878, interpreter in Spanish 1888, chaplain and naval instructor in H.M.S. Victoria which was lost off Tripoli 22 June 1893, brass memorial tablet placed in Great hall of Christ’s hospital Sept. 1893.
MORRIS, William. b. 1821; cornet 16 lancers 18 June 1842, lieut. 14 May 1845; captain 17 lancers 25 April 1851, major 17 Sept. 1857 to death; commanded his regiment at battle of Balaklava; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Poona, Bombay 11 July 1858.
MORRIS, William (eld. son of Thomas Morris of Reading). b. 11 Feb. 1825; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1867; recorder of Maidenhead 1880 to death. d. 14 Dec. 1886.
MORRIS, William (2 son of Wm. Morris of Exeter). b. 9 July 1820; barrister I.T. 16 Jany. 1846; held briefs in the Cumming lunacy case 1852, the Gilchrist trust, Whichen v. Hume 1853, and the Cochrane succession, Lord v. Colvin 1856–69; author of The law of railway and other joint stock companies. d. Caversham house, Brixton hill, Surrey, 7 April 1889.
MORRIS, William Placidus. b. London 29 Sept. 1794; entered the Benedictine order 1810; a missionary priest in London 1818 etc.; bishop of the island of Mauritius, with title of bishop of Troy 1832–42; chaplain to the Nuns of the Sacred heart at Roehampton 1842 to death. d. Roehampton, Surrey 18 Feb. 1872. The Tablet 24 Feb. 1872 pp. 238, 245.
MORRISON, Allan (youngest son of James Morrison 1790–1857). b. 1842; ed. at Eton; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 13 April 1861; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cam.-bridge 1862, 1863, and 1865. d. Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks 1880.