Morris, Sir Harold Spencer, brother of Alexander Crichton Morris (q.v.); b. Dec. 21, 1876; adm. May 10, 1888 (A); left Dec. 1889; Clifton Coll. Jan. 1890 - Easter 1894; Magd. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1894; B.A. 1897; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Jan. 26 1899; South-eastern Circuit; K.C. Feb. 25, 1921; Recorder of Folkestone Feb. 25, 1921-6: president of the Industrial Court Jan. 23, 1926; M.P. East Bristol 1922-4; served in France in Great War I; Lieut. R.A.F. June 25, 1918; M.B.E. June 3, 1919; knighted Jan. 1, 1927; president of the Industrial Court to Dec. 31, 1945; member of the Interned Enemy Aliens (Austrians and Germans) Tribunal 1941; deputy chairman of Quarter Sessions for Middlesex 1949; Grand Registrar of the United Grand Lodge of England; author of Back View (Peter Davies Ltd.) 1959; m. March 26, 1904, Olga, daughter of Emil Teichmann, of Chislehurst, Kent; d. 11 Nov. 1967.
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