Background
Morris was the eldest son of Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was secretary of the University Philosophical Society.
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Martin Henry FitzPatrick Morris
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Trinity College.
Career
He later became a barrister. Morris was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway for 1897. He was elected to the House of Commons for Galway Borough in 1900, a seat he held until the following year when he succeeded his father as second Baron Killanin and entered the House of Lords.
He was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland in the 1920 New Year Honours following his chairmanship of the Committee on Irish Primary Education.
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Lord Killanin was also a member of the Senate of the Royal University of Ireland from 1904 to 1909 and Governor of University College, Galway, from 1909 to 1922 and served as Lord Lieutenant of County Galway between 1918 and 1922.
