Background
He was the son of John Morison of Glasgow, and was educated at the city"s academy and university.
He was the son of John Morison of Glasgow, and was educated at the city"s academy and university.
University of Glasgow.
He joined a Glasgow firm of chartered accountants and stockbrokers, but found his opportunities too limited. He built up an expertise in the textile industry, and was a principal trader in the shares of J & P Coats, the Bradford Dyers Association and the English Sewing Cotton Company. He was elected to the Croydon School Board, and was the party"s parliamentary candidate at Lewes in 1906 and at Eastbourne in January and December, 1910.
In May 1912, Horatio Bottomley, the controversial Liberal Member of Parliament for Hackney South, was forced to his resign his seat when he was declared bankrupt.
Bottomley had been unpopular with a large portion of the party"s activists in Hackney, who had run their own candidate against him in December 1910. The two Liberal factions came together to nominate Morison for the vacancy.
He was comfortably elected at the by-election held on 24 May.
He chose to retire at the next general election in 1918. Horatio Bottomley, whose bankruptcy had been annulled, regained the Hackney South seat as an independent.
Hector Morison played no further part in public life, living in quiet retirement.
He died, aged 89, at his home "Beechcroft", Kenley, near Croydon, in June 1939.
Morison was politically a man of strong Liberal views.
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Accordingly, in 1879 he moved to London, and in 1886 became a member of the London Stock Exchange. In 1876 Morison had married Josephine Ashton, member of a Manchester family of textile industrialists. Morison served only one term as a member of the Commons.