- Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere
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For other people named Charles Morris, see Charles Morris (disambiguation).
Charles Richard Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere KCMG (25 January 1898 – 30 May 1990) was an academic philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
Morris was born in Sutton Valence, Kent, and educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Oxford. From 1921 to 1943 he was fellow and tutor in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. However, from 1939 during the Second World War he worked as a civil servant. He was appointed headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham, in 1941, taking up the post in 1943. He then became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1948 to 1963.[1]
His wife, Mary was the daughter of Ernest de Sélincourt: they had a son and a daughter, and wrote a book together, A History of Political Ideas.[1]
He was created a life peer as "Baron Morris of Grasmere, of Grasmere in the County of Westmorland" in 1967.[2] He died at Grasmere.[1]
In 1955 he opened Netherhall School, Maryport, in Maryport, Cumbria. Charles Morris Hall at the University of Leeds is named after him.
References
- ^ a b c Oxford Dictionary of National Biography accessed 25 July 2009
- ^ London Gazette 17 January 1967
Academic offices Preceded by
Bernard Mouat JonesVice-Chancellor, University of Leeds
1948-1963Succeeded by
Roger Stevens
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