Background
George Lockwood Morris was born on 29 January 1859.
George Lockwood Morris was born on 29 January 1859.
Clifton College.
He played club rugby for Swansea, captaining the club through two seasons, and was the first Swansea player to represent Wales. Between 1878 and 1884 he was a noted rugby player. They lived at Sketty, and had three children - Muriel, who died in her teens, Cedric Lockwood (1889-1982), who became a noted painter and plantsman, and Nancy (born 1893).
In 1947, at the age of 88, Morris inherited Morris baronetcy from a distant cousin, three months before his death.
Morris joined the Swansea team in 1878, at the age of 19, and in the 1881/82 season he was awarded the captaincy of the Senior XV team, an honour he would hold for the next season. On 28 January 28, 1882 Morris was selected for the Wales team in their first rugby match against Ireland.
Morris was selected for the next four Welsh matches including the very first rugby international played in Wales, at Saint Helen"s ground, Swansea, in 1883. His final game was in the 1884 Home Nations Championship, in a game played against Scotland at Rodney Parade in Newport.
Wales lost the game by a drop goal and a try to nil.
Morris and his Swansea team-mate Fred Andrews were both replaced from the pack, with Morris" place going to Cardiff"s John Hinton. International matches played
Wales
England 1882, 1884
Ireland 1882
Scotland 1883, 1884.