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 Kattiawar : transferred to the Indian Marine, 1863 : Captain, 1877 : Transport Officer at Bombay, 1865–79 : despatched the Abyssinian expedition, 1867 : Conservator of the Port, and temporarily Secretary of the Port Trust : concerned with the Commissariat and Transport of the Afghan war, 1878–80 : Chairman of the Bombay Corporation in 1886–7 : took to England the Jubilee address, 1887 : knighted : died at Bombay, July 28, 1891 : an ardent freemason : from 1874 Grandmaster of all Scottish freemasonry in India : fellow of the University, and of learned Societies at Bombay.

MORLEY, WILLIAM HOOK (1815–1860)

Born about 1815 : son of George Morley, of the Inner Temple : educated for the legal profession : called to the bar in 1840 : a notable Oriental scholar, well versed in Arabic and Persian literature : member of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1847 : Librarian to the Society from 1859 : wrote on Indian Law : on the Muhammadan Law prevalent fn India, and other important works : author of Coins of the Atabak Princes of Syria and Asia Minor : compiler of the Catalogue of Arabic and Persian MSS. in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society : died May 21, 1860.

MORRIS, HENRY (1829–)

I.C.S. : born April 22, 1829 : son of John Carnac Morris, M.C.S. (q.v.) : educated at Rugby and Haileybury, 1846–8 : in India, 1848–75, in the Madras C.S. : rose to be Judge of Godavery : was for a year Inspector of Schools : wrote a History of India, 1856, and a History of England, 1858; History of the Godavery District, 1878; a simplified Telugu grammar, 1890; Anglo-Indian Worthies, 1891; Brief Lives of Governors-General of India, 1894 and 1896; Founders of the Bible Society, 1895; Life of Charles Grant, 1904.

MORRIS, JOHN CARNAC (1798–1858)

I.C.S. : son of John Morris, Bombay Civil Service : born Oct. 16, 1798 : Midshipman R.N., 1813–5 : was at Haileybury, 1815–7 : to India in the Madras Civil Service, 1818 : had paralysis in 1823 : Telugu Translator, 1832 : Accountant-General, 1839 : established the Madras Government Bank, 1834, and was Superintendent, 1835 : compiled Telugu dictionaries, selections and other works : edited the Madras Journal of Literature and Science : F.R.S. : a keen freemason : retired in 1846 : embarked in commercial enterprise : Chairman of a Bank which was wound up in 1858 : he died in Jersey on Aug. 2, 1858.

MORRIS, SIR JOHN HENRY (1828–)

I.C.S. : born April 9, 1828 : son of Henry Morris, M.C.S. : educated at Haileybury : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1848 : served in the Panjab, 1849–59 : N.W.P., 1861–3 : Central Provinces, 1863–8 : Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, 1867–83 : Officially described in 1883 as "an administrator of the first rank" : C.S.I., 1877 : K.C.S.I., 1883, when he retired.

MORRISON, JOHN ( ? - ? )

Soldier and adventurer in the second half of the 18th century : at first in the E. I. Co.'s service : arrived in Bengal, 1768, as a Major in the Company's forces. In 1769 the idea came to him of re-establishing Shah Alam on his throne : about two years after resigned his post under the Company, 1771 : about 1772 he entered Shah Alam's service, and received from him the titles of "General and C. in C. of the Great Mogul's forces," and "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" to George III : went to England, empowered by the Great Mogul to lay before Government his proposal to invest the King of England with the absolute sovereignty of the Kingdom of Bengal, and the provinces of Bihar and Orissa, in exchange for a body of British troops to defend his throne at Delhi : to press home this scheme, Morrison wrote his Tract on The Advantages of an Alliance with the Great Mogul, published in 1774.

MORSE, NICHOLAS (1700–1772)

Governor of Fort St. George, Madras, at the time of its capture by La Bourdon-nais in 1746 : was a descendant of Oliver Cromwell, through the Protector's daughter Bridget, who married Ireton : he befriended Clive on the latter' s arrival at Madras and allowed him to use his library : died 1772.