Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere

Charles Richard Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere,

Morris was born in Sutton Valence, Kent. He was educated at Tonbridge School and at Trinity College, Oxford from which he received a BA, later converted to MA.

Career

From 1921 to 1943 Morris was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at

Morris served as the chairman of both the Council for Training in Social Work and the Council for the Training of Health Visitors.[3]

Honours

Morris was made a Knight Bachelor in 1953 and a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1963. In 1967 he became a life peer as "Baron Morris of Grasmere, of Grasmere in the County of Westmorland".^[4]

Morris received the following honorary degrees:^[5]

• DTech, University of Bradford
• DLitt, Lancaster University (1967)^[6]
• LLD, University of Aberdeen
• LLD, University of Manchester
• DLitt, University of Sydney
• LLD, University of Hull
• LLD, University of Malta (1964)^[7]
• LLD, University of Leeds

Marriage and children

Morris married Mary, daughter of Ernest de Sélincourt. They had a son and a daughter and wrote a book together, A History of Political Ideas.^[1]

Death

Lord Morris died at Grasmere in 1990 at the age of 92.^[1]

Partial Bibliography

• A History of Political Ideals (1924)
• Locke, Berkeley, Hume (1931)
• British Democracy (1939)
• Idealistic Logic : a study of its aim, method and achievement (1970)
• The Expanding University, a report (1962)
• The Idea of Adult Education (1963)
• The University in the American Future (1965); contributor
• A Time of Passion : America 1960-1980 (1984)

References

Academic offices
Preceded by Bernard Mouat Jones	Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds 1948–1963	Succeeded by Roger Stevens

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