Morris, Roger, 1727-1794

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Morris, Roger, 1727-1794

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        1727-1794

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        MORRIS, ROGER, third son of Roger Morris, London, architect and master builder, and his first wife Mary, fourth dau. of Sir Peter Jackson, Kt; b. 28 Jan 1727; adm. Jan 1739/40; 2nd Lieut., 21st Foot 1 May 1745; Capt., 48th Foot 13 Sep 1745; served at battles of Falkirk and Culloden, and in Flanders; ADC to Maj. -Gen. Braddock in expedition against Fort Duquesne, wounded; Maj., 35th Foot 16 Feb 1758; with Wolfe in attack on Quebec, again wounded; commanded a column of James Murray’s force in advance on Montreal; Lieut. -Col., 47th Foot 19 May 1760; retd. 15 Jun 1764; settled at New York, where he became a member of the Executive Council; a staunch loyalist; returned to England on his property being confiscated in 1776; m. 19 Jan 1758 Mary (the heroine of Fenimore Cooper’s Spy), dau. of Frederick Philipse, Manor House, Hudson River; d. 13 Sep 1794. DNB.

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        GB-2014-WSA-12644

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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.

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