George Herbert Morrell

George Herbert Morrell MA, MP, JP, DL (1845, Adderbury – 30 September 1906, Bad Nauheim) was an English politician and lawyer.

Morrell in 1895.

George Herbert Morrell was the son of the Rev. G. K. Morrell, fellow of St John's College, Oxford.[1] He was educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took honours in natural science as well as a B.C.L. in 1870.[2] Morrell became a demonstrator in physiology at the Oxford university museum under George Rolleston.[1] In 1874 he married his third cousin, Emilia Alicia Morrell (1854–1938), granddaughter of one of the founder of Morrells Brewery and the richest heiress in Oxfordshire.[3] He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Woodstock, from 1891 to 1892 and again from 1895 till 1906.

References
  1. 'Mr G. H. Morrell', The Times, 2 October 1906
  2. The Times, 11 February 1870, p. 3
  3. Brigid Allen, ‘Morrell family (per. c.1790–1965)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005, accessed 13 Jan 2009


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