Thomas Brash Morison

Thomas Brash Morison

Thomas Brash Morison (21 November 1868 – 28 July 1945) was a Scottish politician and judge.

Liberal Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire from 1917 to 1918 and for Inverness from 1918 to 1922, Morison was Solicitor General for Scotland in the Liberal and Coalition Governments from 1913 to 1920. In 1920 he was appointed Privy Counsellor and promoted to Lord Advocate, a post he held until 1922. He resigned from the House of Commons on 27 February 1922 by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

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