MOHRIS] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
415 
Idem. 4th edit., revised and corrected by W. B. Tegetmeier. 
London (Nimmo) : 1895. 
Collation — 2 vols. roy. 8vo. Vol. I. pp. xi. + pp. 208. Vol. II. 
pp. viii + pp. 176, with 60 hand-col. pi. (Pub. 30s. net.) 
Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen), 1810-93 
Francis Orpen Morris, the eldest son of Admiral Henry 
Gage Morris, R.N., was born on March 25, 1810, at Cove, 
near Cork, when his father was on active service with the 
Fleet. His grandfather, Captain Roger Morris, saw active 
service in the American War of Independence and the events 
preceding it for more than twenty years, and not only married 
an American lady, but resided in that country on his estate 
on Manhattan Island, near New York, always, however, 
remaining loyal to the British cause, in consequence of 
which his estates were confiscated after the emigration of the 
loyalists in 1783. The subject of our notice was educated 
first at Bromsgrove School in Worcestershire, where he 
began to take an interest in and collect objects of natural 
history, and in 1828 went to a private tutor, Rev. J. M. Butt, 
Vicar of East Garston, near Lambourne, Berks, whence he 
proceeded to Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated 
B.A. On leaving Oxford he entered Holy Orders, and held 
several curacies before being presented to the living of 
Nafferton in the East Riding of Yorkshire in 1844, vacating 
this early in 1854, however, on being appointed Rector of 
Nunburnholme in the same Riding, where he remained for 
the rest of his life, passing away in February 1893, after 
a short illness. 
He was married in 1835, and had three sons and six 
daughters. To one of the former, Rev. M. C. F. Morris, who 
succeeded him in the Rectorship of Nunburnholme, fell the 
task of writing his life, published in 1897. 
Morris was a most prolific writer on varied subjects, his 
first publication appearing in 1834, and his last in 1892. 
His magnum opus is, of course, his History of British Birds, 
and of this it may be said that, although one of the most 
voluminous and popular works on the subject, and financially 
