Walter Morrison
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| Walter Morrison MA, MP | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1836 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1921 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
21 Bolton street Piccadilly W 77 Cromwell Road SW [1875] | ||||||||||||
| Occupation |
political business | ||||||||||||
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Born London; died Sidmouth Devon. Family firm was Morrison, Dillon & Co., a wholesale textiles, drapery and haberdashery business. Very successful businessman, and expanded his interests outside the family firm into banking and railways. Liberal MP for Plymouth 1861-74; Liberal Unionist MP for Skipton, Yorks 1886-92, 1895-1900. Gave numerous large benefactions including to Oxford: funded a Readership in Egyptology and is one of the Bodleian Library’s chief benefactors. Honorary degree from Oxford. JP.
