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MORLEY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. William Morley, Rector of Raithby, Lincs., and Eliza, dau. of Bennett Thomas Dobbs, Scremby, Lincs.; b. 4 Dec 1831; adm. 26 Sep 1845 (Scott's); QS 1846; left 1847; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Apr 1850.

MORLEY, CHARLES, son of William Morley, London; b.; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1681, adm. pens. 17 May 1681, aged 18, scholar 1682, matr. 1682; BA 1684/5; MA 1688; MD 1698; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 9 Apr 1687, Major Fellow 2 Oct 1688 – c. 1699; Leyden Univ., adm. 23 Aug 1691; Physician-General to expedition sent to Cadiz and Vigo under command of Duke of Ormonde 17 Apr 1702; a Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Prisoners, and for Exchange of Prisoners of War, 17 Jun 1702; a Burgess of Portsmouth 17 Mar 1703/4; m. Elizabeth, widow of Capt. James Calthorpe, West Barsham, Norfolk, and dau. of James Cooper, Drury Lane, London; living 1720. [Perhaps bapt. Boxgrove, Sussex 2 Jan 1663, son of William Morley, and Elizabeth --- (IGI)] [will proved PCC 16 Oct 1728]

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

MORICE, FRANCIS, son of William Morice (qv), and his first wife; b. 7 Apr 1721; in school list 1731; KS (Capt. ) 1736; Capt. of the School 1739; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1740, matr. 10 Jun 1740, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1740 – void 6 Aug 1752; BA 1744; MA 1748; adm. Middle Temple 15 Jan 1736/7; ordained; Rector of Traddery and Vicar of Ogashin, co. Clare, 22 Oct 1748; Vicar of Kilfintinan, co. Clare 18 Mar 1755; Rector of Six Mile Bridge, co. Clare; Prebendary of Limerick [check]; m. 14 Jun 1764 Mary, dau. of William Spaight, Six Mile Bridge, co. Clare, barrister; d. 3 Oct 1778.

MORICE, CHARLES, brother of William Morice (qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1708; QS 1709; buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey 24 Jan 1710/1.

MORGAN-BROWN, HUBERT, elder son of William Morgan-Brown, North End, Finchley, Middlesex, patent agent, and Laura E. --- (1881 Census); b. 7 Apr 1867; adm. 26 Apr 1881 (G), exhibitioner; QS 8 Jun 1882; left Jul 1886; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1886, scholar 1887; played chess against Oxford 1887, 1888, 1889; LLB 1889; adm. Middle Temple 5 May 1887, called to bar 26 Jan 1891; m. 20 Jun 1906 Agnes, younger dau. of Rev. William Hudson FSA, Vicar of St. Peter’s, Norwich, Norfolk.

MORGAN, WILLIAM, second son of Henry Morgan, Flint, and his first wife Winefrid Gwynne; b. 1623; adm.; KS 1636; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1640, but his name does not appear in college or university records; said to have been expelled from Trinity Coll. after two years’ residence for joining Royalist army; taken prisoner at battle of Naseby and banished from country; entered Spanish service and became a Roman Catholic; entered English College, Rome 1648; adm. Society of Jesus 1651; Professor, Jesuit Coll., Liège 1661; sent as missioner to North Wales 1670; escaped to Continent in Feb 1678/9 from the persecution of Titus Oates; Rector of English Coll., Rome 1683; Provincial of Society of Jesus 22 Aug 1689; d. in the College at St. Omer 28 Sep 1689. DNB.

MORGAN, ROBERT, youngest son of Right Rev. Robert Morgan DD, Bishop of Bangor, and Anne, dau. of Rev. William Lloyd, Rector of Llaneilian, Anglesey; b.; adm.; KS 1680; Dryden, in a letter to Busby, alludes to Morgan’s election to Oxford in 1682 as an instance of a boy being elected to university before the usual time (Works, xviii, 99); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1682, matr. 14 Dec 1682, aged 17, Westminster Student 21 Dec 1682 – void 1700, Tutor (?); BA 1686; MA 1702; BD and DD 1702; went out of residence Sep 1692 to avoid taking oaths; retired to North Wales, where he taught at a school; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1701, priest 19 Oct 1701 (both Bangor); Rector of Llanddyfnan, Anglesey, from 6 Nov 1701; Canon Residentiary of Hereford from 3 Sep 1702; Rector of Ross, Herefs., from 27 Apr 1712; according to Thomas Hearne, Robert Freind considered him “one of the greatest scholars in the Kingdom” (Hearne, Collections, xi, 107); d. 19 Nov 1745.