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MORRIS, FREDERICK BONAMY, son of Frederick John Morris, EICS Bengal, Calcutta, and Caroline Locke, eldest dau. of Bonamy Dobree, The Elms, Walthamstow, Essex, Governor, Bank of England; b. 25 Apr 1842; adm. 24 Jan 1856 (G); QS 1857; left 1859; m. 21 Jan 1868 Mary Frances Lamotte (IGI); d. 6 Feb 1928.

MORRIS, EDWARD, brother of Charles Morris (qv); b. Jul 1768; adm. 12 Jan 1778; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1783, aged 14, scholar 1 Mar 1784; migrated to Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Dec 1784, Wort’s Travelling Bachelor 1788; 10th Wrangler 1788; BA 1788; MA 1791; Fellow, Peterhouse 1791; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 May 1787, Inner Temple 16 May 1795, called to bar 19 Jun 1795; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1807-8); MP Newport (Cornwall) 20 Jun 1803-12; Solicitor to the Ordnance 1806-7; a Master in Chancery from 1 Apr 1807; FRS 18 Jun 1812; author The Adventurers, 1790, and two other plays; m. 26 Jan 1805 Hon. Mary Erskine, third dau. of Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine PC, Lord Chancellor; d. 13 Apr 1815.

MORRIS, EDWARD HENRY, eldest son of Thomas Edward Morris (qv); b. 12 Aug 1862; adm. 31 May 1877 (G); left May 1880; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1881; BA 1886; MA 1900; ordained deacon 1886, priest 1887 (both Lincoln); Curate, Grantham, Lincs. 1886-9, St. James’s, Grimsby, Lincs., 1889-91, Holy Trinity, Gainsborough, Lincs., 1891-5, Ashover, Derbs., 1895-6; Vicar of Willien, Bucks., 1896-8; Vicar of Kildwick in Craven, Yorks., 1899-1901; Vicar of Hawkhurst, Kent 1901-8; Rector of Barham, Kent 1908-10; Vicar of St. Gregory the Great, Canterbury 1910-7; Rector of Bethersden, Kent 1918-.

MORRIS, EDWARD ASHURST, son of John Morris, Blackheath, Kent, solicitor, firm Ashurst Morris Crisp & Co., London; b. 27 Jun 1863; adm. 23 Sep 1875; left May 1876; went to Charterhouse Sch.; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1880; BA 1884; MA 1887; adm. solicitor Nov 1886; practised in London, firm Ashurst Morris Crisp & Co., Old Jewry; d. 17 Dec 1890.

MORRIS, EDMUND, son of Edmund Morris, Chorley Wood House, Herts., Master in Chancery, Bengal, and Jane Parry, Warfield, Berks.; b. 9 Aug 1795; adm.; left Midsummer 1805; at Charterhouse Sch. 1807-11; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1811, matr. 1812; BA 1816; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Feb 1814, Middle Temple 18 Jun 1817 [not 1817 : check]; of Chorley Wood House, Herts.; m. 1830 Laura, second dau. of Capt. John Ritso; d. 18 Feb 1872.

Morris, Desmond Roy, brother of Harold Keith Morris (qv); b. 22 May 1927; adm. May 1940 (H); left July 1945; St John’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1945, BA 1951, MA 1955; Intell. Corps 1945-8; PGCE 1952; asst. master Clifton Coll. Prep. Sch. 1953-7, Brentwood Sch. Essex 1957-8, Roy. Hosp. Sch. Ipswich 1958-, dep. HM 1986-; m. 29 Aug. 1960 Monica, d. of Ven. Christopher George, Archdeacon of Suffolk; d. 13 Aug 2016.

MORRIS, CHARLES, son of Michael Morris MD FRS, Parliament Street, Westminster, Physician to Westminster Hospital, and Barbara, dau. of Charles Taylor Ballard, Snow Hill, London; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 1 Jan 1759 (IGI); adm. 15 Jan 1770; left Easter 1775; m. 4 Aug 1795 his cousin Melicent, only child of Robert Ballard, Alderman of Southampton, Hampshire; living 1822. [perhaps Charles Morris, Polygon, Southampton, will proved PCC 10 Apr 1829]

Morris, Charles Astley Nelson, son of G. T. J. Morris, of Hampstead; b. March 15, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (G); left April 1919; Corpus Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1921; m. April 28, 1934, Winifred, daughter of William G. Eggleton.

Morris, Arthur, only son of Sir Lewis Morris, Kt., author of the Epic of Hades, of Penbryn House, co. Carmarthen, by Florence, widow of Franklin C. Pollard, of New York, U.S.A.; b. Sept. 6, 1873; adm. May 10, 1888 (A); left April 1892; R.N. Coll. Greenwich 1896-9; Naval Architect with the firm of Sir W. J. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. Ltd., London and Newcastle-on-Tyne; served in Great War I as asst. to the gen. manager, Armstrong Naval Yard, Newcastle; M.B.E. June 3, 1918; m. 1st Dec. 11, 1900, Maude, eldest daughter of Thomas F. Lloyd; 2nd Sept. 17, 1918, Margaret Christine, daughter of George Augustus Sandford, of Northwood, Middlesex; d. Nov. 23, 1929.

Morris, Arthur Le Blanc Grant, younger son of Percy Copeland Morris, of Chelsea, barrister­ at-law, by Lucy Augsburg, daughter of John Jay White, of Litchfield, Connecticut; b. March 18, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (G); left July 1917; served in France in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Royal Warwicks Regt. Dec. 18, 1917; invalided Aug. 1918; M.B.E. June 3, 1918; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1921; M.A. 1926; ordained deacon 1923, priest 1924 (Southwell); Curate of St. Peter, Mansfield, Notts, 1925-7; of St. John, Westminster, 1927-31; Rector of East Quantoxhead, Somerset, 1931-42; Chaplain to the Forces 4th class Aug. 27, 1940; demob. 1945; retired and became a writer; m. 1st Jan. 17, 1924, Alison Emily Vully, only daughter of the Rev. James Alexander Corry Vully de Candole, Vicar of Shelley, Suffolk; 2nd Oct. 1947, E. Copeland; d. 23 Jan. 1981.