MORROGH, Leonard. b. county of Cork; lawyer and estate agent Dublin; master of the Ward Union stag hounds 1864; injured by a fall from his horse when hunting and d. Castleboro’ house, lord Carew’s residence, Wexford 13 Jany. 1889. Baily’s mag. xxx 373 (1877) portrait li, 132 (1889).
MORSE, Charles (2 son of George Morse of Catton park, Norfolk 1783–1852). b. Norwich 20 Aug. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; played in the cricket matches against Oxford 1842–4; generally played under name of Esrom; first match at Lords in Marylebone v. Undergraduates of Camb. 6 June 1842; member of I. Zingari with whom he usually played; on 22 Aug. 1850 in Gentlemen of Leicester v. I. Zingari he scored 145 runs in one inning; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848. d. 25 March 1883. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 78 (1863).
MORSE, Francis (son of Thomas Morse of Flixton near Lowestoft). b. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Tamworth, Staffs. 1846–50; C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham 1852; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury 1853; P.C. of St. John’s, Ladywood, Birmingham 1854–64; Hulsean lecturer at Camb. 1863; V. of St. Mary’s, Nottingham 1864 to death; preb. of Lincoln cath. 1867 to 1885, and of Southwell cath. 1885 to death; member of Nottingham sch. board Feb. 1871, then chairman; founded the annual Saturday and Sunday collections for the local hospital; author of Parents, God’s nurses, a gift at the font 1848, 9 ed. 1879; Working for God, four sermons 1857; The cleansing blood 1859; Confirmation, nine addresses 1879; Peace, the voice of the church to the sick 1888. d. suddenly at residence of J. Watson, J.P., the Park, Nottingham 18 Sept. 1886.
MORSE, James. Entered Bombay army 1802; lieut. 7 Bombay N.I. 3 Oct. 1804, captain 1 Jany. 1818; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1824 to 1829 or 1830; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 1829 or 1830–1831; lieut. col. 3 N.I. 1831–32, of 6 N.I. 1832–33, of 3 N.I. 1833–35, and of 10 N.I. 1835 to 28 June 1838; col. of 6 N.I. 15 Jany. 1841 to death; commanded Northern division 19 Sept. 1842–45, and Southern division 1845–47; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Farley court, Berkshire 20 Sept. 1859.
MORSE, Salmi. b. Norwich 1825; a German jew; ed. in England; endeavoured to introduce the Passion play into New York 1883; found drowned in the North river at 88th street, New York 22 Feb. 1884.
MORSHEAD, William Henry Anderson (son of colonel Henry Anderson Morshead of Widey court, Devon). b. 1811; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; served in China 1841–2, in Black sea 1854, at Sebastopol and capture of Kinburn 1855; captain 23 Dec. 1842; R.A. 4 Oct. 1862; V.A. 15 Jany. 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 30 July 1875; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 11 Jany. 1876. d. 4 Osborne place, Plymouth 18 Feb. 1886.
MORSON, Thomas Newborn Robert. b. Stratford le bow, London; apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet market, London; learnt chemistry under Planché of Paris, pharmacien; operative chemist in Southampton row, Holborn, London 1827 to death; established a factory at Hornsey road 1837, and the Summerfield works at Homerton 1869; produced in his laboratory the first sulphate of quinine made in England, and the first morphia; invented a medicine called pepsine; member of Pharmaceutical society, on the council to 1870, vice president, then president; F.L.S. d. 38 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 353 (1874).
MORT, Charles Chester. b. 1804; editor and joint proprietor with his brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death; mayor of Stafford 1842, and alderman 1853. d. Moss Pitt house, Stafford 8 Feb. 1858. The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858 p. 4.
MORT, Thomas Sutcliffe. b. Bolton, Lancs. 23 Dec. 1816; clerk with Aspinwall, Brown & co. Sydney 1837–43; an auctioneer Sydney 1843; established public wool sales in Sydney, and ultimately the firm of Mort & co. the largest wool-broking firm in Australia; formed the Great nuggett vein mining co. 1851; established a large dairy business at Bodalla Moruja district 1855; engaged in cultivation of silk, cotton and sugar, and in coal mining; established Mort’s Dock and engineering co. Sydney 1873; experimented on freezing meat for export, but did not live to see the ultimate success of the process; his statue erected in Macquarie place, Sydney 1873. d. Bodalla near Sydney 9 May 1878. The Australian portrait gallery (1885) 51–6 portrait.
MORTIMER, Favell Lee (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of Barclay, Bevan & co. London). b. London 1802; founded parish schools on her father’s estates; m. in the year 1841 Thomas Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road, London, who d. 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving 1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon line 1837; The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia and Australia described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the first missionaries in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon precept 1867, 2 ed. 1869; and 20 other books. d. Runton near Cromer 22 Aug. 1878. bur. in churchyard, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk. The Family Friend (1878) 183.