Politician, merchant, and banker. Militia officer. Came to Canada in 1808. Between 1840 and 1844 was one of four trustees for the establishment of Queen's College. Member of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly, Brockville, Ont., 1844-52.
Edmund Morris, artist, was born in Perth, Ontario in 1871. He was the son of the Hon. Alexander Morris who was Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories from 1872 to1877. After studying painting in New York and Paris, E.M. Morris returned to Canada in 1896. He vacationed in Holland and Scotland in 1902 and finally made his home in Toronto. In 1906 he was commissioned by the Ontario Government to paint the Ojibway of Northern Ontario. For this he accompanied Duncan Campbell Scott, Indian Affairs Commissioner on Treaty Expedition Nine to James Bay. In 1907 he was commissioned to paint portraits of Indian bands for the Parliament Buildings in Toronto. He also painted portraits of native chiefs for the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments. Morris was elected an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1897, and in 1908 helped found the Canadian Art Club. He died in 1913.
Henry J. Morgan was a historian, a civil servant, an archivist and a writer. Morgan was appointed to undertake the arrangement and classification of the records of all State records not specifically transferred to other departments. In 1873 Morgan was one of the first government workers to ever be employed as an archivist in Canada. In addition to his work his personal interest in history led to his collecting documents or copies of documents from various families and individuals which dealt with his research area. Along with co-author Lawrence Johnston Burpee he wrote "Canadian Life in Town and Country" published in 1905, and "Types of Canadian Women" (extracts), 1903, by H.J. Morgan
Alexander Morris (1826-1889) was born at Perth, Upper Canada. His education took place at Madras College, St. Andrews, Scotland and at the University of Glasgow. He returned to Canada and enrolled at McGill University where he became the first graduate in Arts. His professional career began with the study of law in the office of John A. Macdonald in 1847. In 1851 he was called to the bar in Upper Canada and in Lower Canada. He was elected as a Conservative for Lanark in the Legislative Assembly of Canada, a seat he held until 1872. During this time he was Minister of Inland revenue in the government of John A. Macdonald from 1869 to 1872. He was appointed chief justice of the Court of the Queen's Bench in Manitoba. During his time there he was instrumental in achieving the federation of St. John's College, the College of St. Boniface, and Manitoba College through which the University of Manitoba was founded in 1877. After his return to Ontario he represented East Toronto in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1878 to 1886. He died at Toronto in 1889.
William Felix Edmund Morley was born in London, England, 1920. He served with the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1946 and came to Canada in 1947. Mr. Morley attended the University of Toronto where he received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1952. In 1953 he received the Bachelor of Library Science degree from the same University. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in English from Queen's University in 1982. From 1953 to 1954 he was Chief Librarian, YM-YWHA, Montreal. He was Chief Librarian and Archivist at the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Montreal, 1954 to 1959. From 1959 to 1964 he was Bibliographer at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Morley came to Queen's University in July 1964 and was Curator of the Special Collections Unit, Douglas Library, until his retirement in 1985. William Morley passed away in Kingston in 2017.
Terry Morley was a Professor in Political Science at the University of Victoria and long-time member of the New Democratic Party.