Background
He was the son of William Morris, surgeon from Petworth, Sussex.
He was the son of William Morris, surgeon from Petworth, Sussex.
University College London.
He was President of the Royal Society of Medicine and the author and editor of significant works on anatomy. He was also known for his work in the field of cancer. After his education at Epsom College and University College, London (Bachelor 1863, Master of Arts 1870), he entered Guy"s Hospital where, after graduating Bachelor of Medicine, he became first a house surgeon and then the Resident Medical Officer.
In 1870 he was appointed Surgical Registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, in 1871 Assistant Surgeon and Surgeon to the Out-Patient Department and from 1872-1881 Lecturer in Anatomy.
From 1879 to 1889 he was Consulting Surgeon to the hospital. He specialized in cancer surgery and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, now Cancer Research United Kingdom, was established at a meeting in his house, with Morris appointed Treasurer and Vice-President.
He pioneered a number of procedures, being the first surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital to perform a total colectomy (1877), pylorectomy (1885) and total excision of the larynx (1885). In 1880, he successfully removed a large calculus from an undilated kidney, the first operation of its kind in the United Kingdom and in 1889 successfully removed a large part of a malignant urinary bladder.
He delivered the Bradshaw Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1903 on the subject of cancer.
He was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1906-1909 and President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1910-1912.