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Adm. pens. at TRINITY, May 9, 1823. [3rd] s. of Sir Frederick Morton, 2nd Bart. B. Sept. 2, 1804, in Pall Mall, London. School, Westminster. Did not reside. ' Matric. from Christ Church, Oxford, May 17, 1823; B.A. (Oxford) 1827; M.A. (Oxford) 1839; B.D. and D.D. (Oxford) 1851. Ord. deacon and priest (Gloucester) 1828; C. of Weston-under-Edge (Gloucs.) and of Messing and Peldon, Essex. R. of Leigh, Essex, 1837-52. Inspector of Schools in Essex, 1841. Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness, 1851. Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, July 5, 1862-86. Founded St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness, 1866. Worked for the recognition of Scottish orders by the English Church and to promote Union with the Eastern Church. Founder of the Representative Church Council in the place of the Church Society created by Dean Ramsay. Married Sept. 17, 1827, Emma, dau. of Sir James Allan Park, Justice of the Common Pleas, and had issue. Died Aug. 26, 1886, at Edencourt, Inverness. Author, Tracts and Sermons; Impressions of a Recent Visit to Russia, 1866; Prefaces to Shutte's translation of the Heliotropium and to Count Tolstoi's Romanism in Russia. (Crockford; Al. Oxon.; D.N.B.; Records of Old Westminsters; Burke, P. and B.; Foster, Index Eccles.; Boase, I. 957.)