Career
The Reverend Francis David Morice was a noted theologist and linguist who wrote Stories in Attic Greek (London, Rivingtons, 1883), still in print. His work in entomology involved extensive traveling Morice made collecting expeditions to Egypt, Algeria, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Persia.
Morice was President of the Royal Entomological Society (1911-1912).
Insects named in his honour include
Ceratina moricei Friese, 1899
Colletes moricei Saunders, 1904
Hedychridium moricei (Du Buysson, 1904)
Hylaeus moricei (Friese, 1898)
Mesoleptidea moricei (Schmiedeknecht, 1913)
Metadrosus moricei (Pic, 1904).