Major W. B. Morris 



at Stockbridge, on a mare called Sulks, belonging to Mr. 

 Dugdale, when he won by a neck from the favourite. 



" The last winner I rode " (writes Lord Cholmondeley) 

 "was at Lewes, in 1898, on Maltravers, belonging to the late 

 General Owen Williams. A very comfortable ride, and I won 

 as I liked. A pretty good thing — I shouldn't mind winning 

 another like it. I was too heavy, and began riding too late in 

 life to do much good in it. Still, it was real good fun, and I 

 should like to have it all over again." 



MAJOR W. B. MORRIS 



One of the best, as he was certainly one of the most popular 

 of military riders at the time when he was in the saddle, was 

 Major W. B. Morris, whose sad death from a fall from his 

 horse when hunting with the Cheshire hounds on February 

 20, 1890, was a source of genuine grief to his many friends 

 both in and out of the Service. 



The fourth son of the late John Grant Morris, Esq., of 

 Allerton Priory, Woolton, the subject of our memoir was born 

 January 23, 1853, and received his education at Harrow 

 and Sandhurst, being gazetted to the 7th Q.O. Hussars on 

 April 13, 1872, in which distinguished regiment he saw service 

 both in South Africa and Egypt in 1881 and 1882. 



Devoted to horses and riding from his earliest childhood, 

 on joining the Seventh, he lost no time in perfecting himself 

 in the art of race-riding in which it was the ambition of his life 

 to excel. 



In this respect he was in luck's way in having a most 



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