Background
The second son of James Morrison (1790–1857) the businessman, he had from his father a large fortune.
The second son of James Morrison (1790–1857) the businessman, he had from his father a large fortune.
He went to the University of Edinburgh, and spent a student year at Trinity College, Cambridge, travelled, and later unsuccessfully stood for parliament. Morrison was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1857. He died at Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, on 22 December 1897, at the age of 76.
Morrrison married, in 1860, Mabel, daughter of the Review
R. South. C. Chermside, rector of Wilton, Wiltshire.