MORTIMER, George Ferris Whidborne (eld. son of Wm. Mortimer of Bishopsteignton, Devon). b. Bishopsteignton 22 July 1805; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1823; Michel exhibitioner Queen’s coll. 1823–6, scholar 1826–30; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1841; ordained 24 Feb. 1829; head master of Newcastle gr. sch. 1828, and of Western proprietary school Brompton, London 1833; head master of City of London school 1840, resigned Michaelmas 1865, two of his pupils were senior wranglers and senior classics at Cambridge 1861; was voted freedom of City of London 25 May 1848; hon. preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral April 1865 to death; evening lecturer at St. Matthew’s, Friday st.; author of a pamphlet entitled The immediate abolition of slavery compatible with the safety and prosperity of the colonies, Newcastle 1833. d. Rose Hill, Hampton Wick. 7 Sept. 1871. E. W. Linging’s History of City of London school (1882) 28–9; Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp. 179–80; City Press 16 Dec. 1882 Supplement, portrait.
MORTIMER, John. b. 1782; M.D. St. Andrews 1829; surgeon in the navy; surgeon of Haslar hospital 22 years; hospital surgeon at Antigua, Martinique and Barbadoes 30 years; inspector of hospitals and fleets; author of West India fever 1816. d. Upper South st. Gosport 25 April 1856.
MORTIMER, William. b. Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the Old Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’ benefit soc. 1884. d. The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886. Bailey’s mag. xx 1 (1871) portrait, xlv 272 (1886).
MORTLOCK, William (son of Thomas Mortlock a cricket umpire). b. Clayton st. Kennington, Surrey 18 July 1832; a cricket ball maker; practised at the Oval; long stop to the Surrey elevens, never using pads or gloves, long stopped for 12,000 balls for only 3 byes; a good bat for his county Surrey from 1850; first played at Lord’s in M.C.C. v. Surrey club 12 June 1854; made good scores in 1862 and 1863; one of the first English team visiting Australia 1861; cricketing tutor at Dr. Scale’s school, Wellesley house, Twickenham; known as Old Stonewall; cricketing outfitter at Waterloo railway station 1864 to death; opened the Lambeth baths for cricket practice 28 Jany. 1868 but soon closed them. d. 23 Jany. 1884. bur. Norwood cemet. 28 Jany. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores iv 588 (1863); Illust. Sporting news iii 345 (1864) portrait; Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93 portrait; Cricket Jany. 1884 p. 10.
MORTON, George Sholto Douglas 17 Earl of (eld. son of lieut. col. John Douglas 1756–1818). b. London 23 Dec. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810; attaché at Madrid 1811; secretary of legation at Stockholm 1812, at Florence 1814, at Berlin 17 Feb. 1816, retired on a pension 5 Jany. 1825; succeeded his cousin as 17 Earl 17 July 1827; a representative peer of Scotland 1830 to death; a lord-in-waiting 1841–9 and Feb. to Dec. 1852; lieut. col. of Midlothian yeomanry cavalry 1843–4; vice lieutenant of Midlothian 10 Sept. 1854 to death. d. 47 Brook st. London 31 March 1858.
MORTON, Alexander. b. Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland 8 March 1820; ed. at Yale univ.; began manufacture of gold pens in New York city 1851, invented automatic processes for pointing, tempering and grinding them 1851–60, his pens obtained a high reputation. d. New York 12 Oct. 1869.
MORTON, Charles (eld. son of Samuel Morton of Edinburgh, agricultural implement maker). b. 21 Jany. 1806; writer to the signet 8 July 1828; crown agent June and July 1866, 1868–74 and 1880–3; took part in the Torbane Hill mineral case, the action against the directors of the Western Bank of Scotland, and other famous cases. d. Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1892.
MORTON, James. b. Kelso 1783; ed. at Kelso and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.D. 1824; V. of Holbeach, Lincs. 1831 to death; prebendary of Lincoln 1831 to death; edited for the Abbotsford club The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria 1841; and for the Camden soc. The Ancren Riwle 1853; author of The poetical remains of John Leyden 1819; Memoirs of J. Leyden, Calcutta 1822; The monastic annals of Teviotdale, Edinb. 1832. d. Holbeach Vicarage 31 July 1865. G.M. xix 390 (1865).
MORTON, John (2 son of Robert Morton). b. Ceres, Fifeshire 17 July 1781; farmer at Kilmeny, Fifeshire; walked over most of the English counties noting their geology; farmer at Dulverton, Somerset 1810–18; agent to lord Ducie’s Gloucestershire estates 1818–52; projected and conducted the Whitfield example farm and established the Uley agricultural machine factory; invented the Uley cultivator and other agricultural appliances; F.G.S. 1839; author of On the nature and property of soils 1838, 4 ed. 1843; Report on the Whitfield farm 1840; author with Joshua Trimmer of An attempt to estimate the effects of protecting duties on the profits of agriculture, 4 ed. 1845. d. Nailsworth, Gloucestershire 26 July 1864.
MORTON, John Chalmers (son of preceding). b. 11 July 1821; ed. Merchiston Castle sch. Edinb. and at univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on the Whitfield example farm 1838–44; fellow of Royal Agricultural society 4 Sept. 1839; edited the Agricultural gazette 1844 to death; conducted the agricultural classes at Edinb. univ. 1854; inspector under the land commissioners; member of royal commission for inquiry into pollution of rivers 1868–74; edited A cyclopædia of agriculture 1855; Morton’s New farmer’s almanac 1856–70, continued as Morton’s Almanac for farmers and landowners 1871, &c.; Handbook of farm labour 1861, new ed. 1868; The prince consort’s farms 1863, and 10 other books. d. Holmleigh, Harrow 3 May 1888. bur. Harrow ch. yard 9 May. Journal of Royal agricultural society xxiv 691–6 (1888); Agricultural Gazette 7 May 1888 p. 428 portrait, 14 May p. 453.