Career
Morrell was a farmer from near Coleraine, and was active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). He was elected to Coleraine Rural District Council in 1962, then Londonderry County Council in 1969. In 1973, he was elected to Coleraine District Council, and also to the Northern Ireland Assembly from the Londonderry constituency.
Faulkner appointed Morrell as Minister of Agriculture when the Northern Ireland Executive was created.
After Sunningdale when Faulkner resigned after losing a vote on the Agreement in the Unionist Council, he joined Faulkner"s new Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, becoming deputy leader of the party. The Executive fell as a result of the Ulster Workers" Strike in May 1974.
However, Morrell lost his seat in Londonderry in the 1975 elections to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.
