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.
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