Thomas Brash Morison, Lord Morison

Thomas Morison

The grave of Thomas Brash Morison, Dean Cemetery

Sir Thomas Brash Morison (21 November 1868 – 28 July 1945) was a Scottish politician and judge.

Morison was born in Edinburgh. He went to Edinburgh University where he obtained MA and LL.D degrees.^[1] He was called to the bar in Scotland in 1891 and then in England in 1899. He took silk in October 1906.^[2]

He was knighted in 1906. He was senior Advocate-Depute, 1908–1910 and Deputy Chairman of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 1910–1913.^[3] During the same period he also held the post of Sheriff of Fife and Kinross.^[4] He was made a Bencher of Gray's Inn in 1920.^[5]

Liberal Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire from 1917 to 1918 and for Inverness from 1918 to 1922, Morison was Solicitor General for Scotland in the Liberal and Coalition Governments from October 1913^[6] to 1920. In 1920 he was appointed Privy Counsellor and promoted to Lord Advocate,^[7] a post he held until 1922. He resigned from the House of Commons on 27 February 1922 by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

He is buried against the northern wall of the 20th extension to Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh with his wife, Isabel Elizabeth Hendry, Lady Morison (1873-1934).

References

1. Who was Who, OUP 2007
2. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 11872. p. 1049. 12 October 1906. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
3. The Times House of Commons 1919; Politico's Publishing 2004 p70
4. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 12295. p. 1093. 21 October 1910. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
5. Who was Who, OUP 2007
6. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 12613. p. 1143. 4 November 1913. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
7. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 13583. p. 1008. 2 April 1920. Retrieved 8 January 2016.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Brash Morison