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'''Walter Morrison'''
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=== House Notes ===
Wm in 1872 list<br />death reported in Report of the Council for 1921
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
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.<br />