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Morris, Edward, 1768-1815
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1768-1815
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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.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.