Edward E. Morris / Edward EMorris
Edward Ellis Morris (25 December 1843 - 1 January 1902) was an English educationist and miscellaneous writer and latterly in colonial Australia. Morris was born at Madras, India, fourteenth child of John Carnac Morris, accountant-general of the British East India Company at Madras, and his wife Rosanna Curtis. Morris was educated at Rugby School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated B. A. in 1866, with final honours in classics, law and modern history and M. A. 1869. He was an assistant master at St Peter’s College, Radley, and at Haileybury, and in 1871 became headmaster of the Bedfordshire middle class public school. From 1875 to 1883 he was headmaster of the Melbourne Church of England grammar school which made progress under his direction.
