Jeremy Morse

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Sir
Jeremy Morse
The Baroness Hale of Richmond
Personal details
Born
Christopher Jeremy Morse

(1928-12-10)10 December 1928
London, England
Died4 February 2016(2016-02-04) (aged 87)
London, England
Spouse
Belinda Mills
​
(m. 1955)​
Children5
Alma materNew College, Oxford

Sir Christopher Jeremy Morse

Lloyds Bank.[2]

Early life and education

Morse was born in

Lord Mayor of Norwich from 1922 to 1923, was from a junior branch of the landed gentry Morse family of Lound, Suffolk.[5] The family were Quakers.[4]

Morse was educated at West Downs School and Winchester College.[6] He went on to attend New College, Oxford, after completing two years of national service with the 60th Rifles in Mandatory Palestine.[4][7]

Career

A career banker, Morse began with

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) "for services to the reform of the international monetary system".[10]

He had a keen interest in

cryptic crosswords and was a skilful writer of clues.[4] His record of success in the clue-writing competitions of Ximenes and Azed was such that Azed's December 2008 Competition puzzle was dedicated to the occasion of his eightieth birthday.[11] He had puzzles published under the pseudonym "Esrom" (his surname in reverse).[12]

In addition to crosswords, Morse had an interest in other types of word puzzles, and was a frequent contributor to

Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. He was also a chess writer and wrote a book called Chess Problems: Tasks and Records.[4]

Colin Dexter's fictional detective, Inspector Morse, was named after him.[13]

In 2006 Morse was awarded the title of World Federation for Chess Composition Honorary Master.

He was an honorary fellow of New College, Oxford,[14] and of All Souls College, Oxford.[15]

Personal life

In 1955, Morse married Belinda Marianne Mills, the daughter of Lt-Colonel Robert Breynton Yarnton Mills, OBE, MC, of the landed gentry Mills family of Sudgrove;[16] they had three sons and two daughters (one of whom died from leukaemia at the age of four).[4]

Morse died from complications of jaw cancer at Royal Trinity Hospice in London on 4 February 2016, at the age of 87.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Bristol University – News – 2004: Chancellor". Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  2. ^ "UK – England – Bristol/Somerset – New university chancellor nominated". 23 May 2003. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  3. ^ "ComposersNamesInVariousAlphabetsM PCCC website". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  4. ^
    doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111069. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 1, ed. Peter Townend, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1965, p. 511
  6. ^ "Sir Jeremy Morse received Ad Portas". Winchester College. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  7. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 1, ed. Peter Townend, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1965, p. 511
  8. ^ Bank of England News release retrieved 19 March 2009
  9. ISBN 9780521845519
    . Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  10. ^ "No. 46444". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1974. p. 3.
  11. ^ For CJM at 80
  12. ^ "Listener" Crossword Setters Dinner 1993
  13. ^ "Sir Jeremy Morse, banker – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  14. ^ "Emeritus, Honorary and Wykeham Fellows". Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  15. ^ List of Honorary Fellows of All Souls
  16. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 1, ed. Peter Townend, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1965, p. 511

External links

Academic offices
Preceded by Chancellor of the University of Bristol
1989–2003 		Succeeded by
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