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MORESBY, WALTER HALLIDAY, only son of Adm. John Moresby, Royal Navy, Fareham, Hampshire, and Jane Willis, dau. of Philip Scott, Queenstown, co. Cork; b. 9 Nov 1861; adm. 27 May 1875; left Sep 1876; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1881; BA 1884; LLB 1886; MA 1889; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 19 Nov 1888; South-Eastern Circuit; Legal Adviser, Special Intelligence Department, War Office, 1914-; OBE 24 Aug 1917; CBE 30 Mar 1920; m. 30 Jan 1897 Mary Graham, dau. of Cdr. Oswald Bayliss Niven, Royal Navy, Torquay, Devon; d. 24 Apr 1951.

MORESBY, CHRISTOPHER, son of Fairfax Moresby, Stowe House, Lichfield, Staffs., and Eliza Louisa, dau. of Col. --- Williams; b. 23 Mar 1796; adm. 13 Jun 1809; Min. Can. 1814; in school list Oct 1814; practised as a solicitor at Frome, Somerset 1828-45; m. 1828 Elizabeth Ward; d. 9 Dec 1854.

MORER, THOMAS, son of Maurice Morer, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS 1668; failed to obtain election to either University 1670; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1671, aged 19; BA 1675; ordained; Vicar of Hillingdon, Middlesex 13 Nov 1677-96; Prebendary of Salisbury from 21 Jan 1687/8; Rector of St. Anne and St. Agnes, London, from 18 Apr 1696; m. Margaret, sister of James Heywood (qv); d. 20 Dec 1715.

MORELL, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 23 Apr 1770; in school lists 1775; acted as one of the terriers of “the pack of bipeds” which hunted the Tothill Fields country (A Versatile Professor, 1903, 12-3). [Maybe William Richard Morel, son of William Morel, and Ann---, b. 11 Mar 1761 (IGI) : a son of Rev. William Morel (qv) ?] [if so, likely to be William Richard Morel, Surgeon to Westminster Infirmary, d. 23 Mar 1823 (William Richard Moore or Morel, Frith Street, Westminster, will proved PCC 29 Apr 1823)]

MORELL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1740 (Morel's); left 1745. [Evidently John Morel, son of John Morel and Philippa --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 20 Apr 1732; a brother of William Morel (qv)].

MORELAND, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716. [probably Morland]

MOREL, WILLIAM, son of John Morel, London; b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1738 (Morel's); left 1745; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1746, aged 17, scholar 22 May 1747, matr. 1747; BA 1749/50; MA 1761; ordained deacon (London) 2 Dec 1751, priest (Peterborough) 17 Mar 1753; Vicar of Harrowden, Northants 20 Mar 1753-80; Reading Chaplain, Whitehall (occurs 1783); presumably Rev. W. Morel who had the boarding house at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1768 – 1781, and who is likely to have been the son of Mrs Morel who had a boarding house in Cowley Street 1738-54 and was the dame at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1754-68; m. (widower at death); d. 23 Sep 1808. [Evidently son of John Nicolas Morel, St. James, Westminster, and Philippa Chancey, Chelsea, who m. 1727; John Nickolo Morel, St. John’s, Westminster, gentleman, will proved PCC 5 Jan 1749, Philippia Morel, widow, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, will proved PCC 3 Mar 1768]

Morel, Philippia; dau. of --- Chancey ; of Chiswick, Middlesex, on marriage ; already keeping a boarding house for the School by 30 Sep 1728, when she received a payment for the boarding fees of Chamberlayne and Robert Dashwood (qvv) ; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1738-54 and at 1 Little Dean’s Yard from 1754 (succeeding Mrs.Watts there) ; first three of fifty-three recorded boarders in period for which boarding data is available adm. Apr 1738, last recorded boarder adm. Feb 1753, two further boarders recorded later ; her initial three boarders included Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (qv), a future Prime Minister, and later boarders included Jeremy Bentham (qv) ; she bequeathed the remainder of the lease of “the house I now dwell in”, evidently 1 Little Dean’s Yard, to her son William Morel (qv) ; she also bequeathed to a grand-daughter “my diamond ring that was given me by His Grace the Duke of Leeds in memory of his son the late Marquis of Carmarthen deceased” (who will therefore have been one of her boarders) ; m. 1727 John Niccolo Morel (of St.James’s, Westminster, on marriage), Page of the Backstairs to Queen Caroline (occurs 1734-7) (his will proved PCC 5 Jan 1749, as of St.John the Evangelist, Westminster) ; d. 2 Feb 1768 (Public Advertiser 4 Feb 1768). Will dated 30 Apr 1765, proved PCC 3 Mar 1768, she of St.Margaret’s, Westminster, widow. [Receipted bill for school expenses of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., quarter ending 23 Apr 1743, is signed “T.W.Morel” (transcription by A.M.W.Stirling, The Hothams, ii, 2, note), but “T.W,”is no doubt a misreading of “J.N.”]

MORECROFT, EDWARD, son of Rev. Ferdinand Morecroft, Rector of Stanhope, co. Durham, and Prebendary of Durham, and Margaret, dau. of Francis James DCL; b.; adm.; KS 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1636, matr. 15 Jul 1636, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1640; ordained; Rector of Redmarshall, co. Durham, from 23 Nov 1668; m. 3 Sep 1639 Jeronyma, dau. of James Hilton, Dyons, co. Durham; buried Redmarshall, co. Durham 18 Oct 1694.