Ethel Remfry Morris

Dr Ethel Remfry Morris MB BS MSc
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Born	1880
Died	1957
Residence	17b Holland Park Road, W14 303 Westbourne Grove, W11 [census]
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1937.07.13 societies Royal Society of Arts Folklore Society School of Spiritual Science

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1937.07.13 nominated and elected forthwith
director of an Art Gallery

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William Perry Morris married Ethel Ida Remfry, a graduate of the University of Melbourne (B.Sc., 1903; M.Sc., 1905; M.B., B.S., 1911) and a teacher at Merton Hall; they were to remain childless.
Late in 1906 Ethel Morris had returned to Merton Hall and to her studies, beginning a separation from her husband that would endure, except for a few weeks in 1912, until her death in London in 1957. Their differences were aesthetic and fundamental. An ardent classicist, Morris viewed life from uncompromisingly romantic, heroic and idealistic perspectives. He abhorred socialism, for example, for its abnegation of the individual and the spirit. His personal requisites were Spartan, and he found intellectual enjoyment in reading literature and writing poetry. For recreation, he favoured outdoor pastimes and team sports such as rowing, Rugby Union football and cricket. By contrast, Ethel Remfry-Morris was a modernist and a feminist, who eventually turned to painting, finding her future in artistic circles in London.
On 8 February 1912, during their brief reunion, the Morrises established a small private school, St Magnus Hall, in a house called Ardencraig at Toowong, Brisbane.

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