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MORLAND, GEORGE, son of Metcalfe Morland, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, and Sarah, sister of James Maud, Crutched Friars, London; b. 22 Jan 1733/4; adm. Jun 1743; left 1748; Cornet, Earl of Albemarle’s Dragoons 12 May 1756; of Chelsfield Court, Kent, bequeathed to him and his brother Francis by Mary (née Maud), widow successively of John Tattersall (adm. 1721, qv) and of Brass Crosby MP, Lord Mayor of London; m.; d. 22 Jan 1814.

MORLAND, FRANCIS, brother of George Morland (qv); b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1746; left 1748; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 25 Mar 1758; retd. 1764; of Clapton Hall, Northants; m. 4 Mar 1769 Elizabeth Hinde, Great Baddow, Essex, widow; d. 25 Jun 1808.

MORLAND, EDWARD, third son of George Bowes Morland, Abingdon, Berks., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Thornhill, Woodleys, Oxfordshire; b. 26 Dec 1841; adm. 28 Sep 1854 (G); left 1857; brewer; Mayor of Abingdon several times; JP Berkshire 1882; m. 1881 Ethel, third dau. of James Duncan Thomson, Aston, Herts.; d. 12 Jul 1894.

Moritz, Philip Arnold, son of Arnold Moritz, of Kensington, by Constance Edith, daughter of Charles Bennett; b. Feb. 8, 1902; adm. Jan. 20, 1916 (H); left July 1920; Imperial Coll. of Science, South Kensington; A.R.C.S; d. 1982.

MORISON, SIR THEODORE, son of James Augustus Cotter Morison, Fitzjohn’s Avenue, Hampstead, Middlesex, writer, and Frances Adelaide, dau. of George Virtue, Walton on Thames, Surrey, publisher; b. 9 May 1863; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (G); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1882 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 4 Oct 1882; BA 1885; MA 1889; DCL Durham 1920; tutor to Maharajahs of Chhaturpur and Charkhari 1886-8; Professor, Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental Coll., Aligarh 1889-99, Principal of Coll. 1899-1905; member, Council of India 19 Dec 1906 – 18 Dec 1916; member, Royal Commission on Public Services of India 1913-5; 2nd Lieut., 1st bn. Cambridge Regt., 16 Nov 1915; served East African Expeditionary Force 1916-8, and afterwards at War Office; demobilised Apr 1919, with rank Lieut. -Col.; Principal, Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne 1919-29; Vice-Chancellor, Durham Univ., 1924-6; Director, British Institute, Paris, from 1933; KCIE 1 Jan 1910; KCSI 1 Jan 1917; CBE 3 Jun 1918; Officier de la Croix de Léopold (Belgium) 1918; author, The Industrial Organisation of an Indian Province, 1906, and other works; m. 21 Oct 1895 Margaret, dau. of Right Hon. Arthur Cohen KC MP, Cumberland Place, Hyde Park, London; d. 24 Feb 1936. DNB.

Morison, Roderick Henry, son of Henry Morison, of Calcutta, barrister-at-law, by Jessie Reid, daughter of Thomas Joseph Balland, of Holywell, Flint; b. March 7, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); left July 1916; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 28th Batt. London Regt. Nov. 28, 1917; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1920; B.A. 1922; a journalist; editor of the Overseas Daily Mail 1932-40; on the staff of the Ministry of Information 1940-5; head of News Room, London Press Service, since 1945; m. July 30, 1932, Kathleen Rose Margaret, daughter of John Eales, of Sydenham; d. 1972.

MORICE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Thomas Morice, Paymaster of British Forces in Portugal, and Alice, dau. of Sir William Underhill, Kt, Idlicote, Warwicks.; b.; adm.; QS 1705; High Bailiff of Westminster 1719 – 14 Feb 1730/1, when he was allowed to sell post to a successor, on condition of giving £500 towards the building of the new Dormitory; an executor of the will of his father-in-law Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); living at Lisbon in 1747; still alive at Northfleet, Kent 1761, living under assumed name of Thompson to avoid his creditors; m. 1st, 21 May 1715 Mary, dau. of Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); m. 2nd, 2 Mar 1731/2 Anne, dau. of Capt. John Philpot, Rotherhithe, Surrey; d. 1769.

MORICE, WILLIAM DUGUID, brother of David Simpson Morice (qv); b. 30 Jun 1822; adm. 11 Jan 1830; King’s Coll. Sch. 1832-5; killed in a carriage accident near Newton Abbot, Devon 17 Jun 1843.

MORICE, JOHN, brother of William Morice (qv); b.; adm.; QS 1707; left 1709.

MORICE, JOHN FREIND; b.; in school list Dec 1736; BB 1736-41 (Chapter Muniments 33769-73); adm. Inner Temple year 1739-40. [Probably a son of William Morice (qv)].