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Note: Address: 1891: 78, Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, London was educated at Denmark Hill Grammar School. He was then articled to Messrs. Chauntler, Crouch & Co., solicitors, and subsequently proceeded to the office of Messrs. Ashurst, Morris & Co., beginning to practise on his own account in Walbrook in 1876.In the year 1878 he married Mildred Emily, daughter of Edmund King, of Sydenham, and in 1834, was elected a member of the Corporation of the City of London, taking shortly a prominent position at the Guildhall, and serving in succession the chair of a number of the more important committees. In 1901 he became Alderman of the Walbrook Ward, and on 15 May, 1906, died suddenly of heart failure, on returning to his home. No. 20, Collingham Gardens, South Kensington, from business. His recreation was motoring. At the time of his death he was Master of the Fanmakers and a Member of the Carpenters and of the Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers Companies. His interest in Freemasonry was considerable. He had been initiated in the Alliance Lodge. No. 1827, and had served the office of W. M... and was junior Deacon of the Guildhall Lodge. In Royal Arch Masonry, he was exalted in Bayard Chapter, No. 1615, and had completed his term of office as M.E.Z. In Mark Masonry, he was advanced in the Keystone Lodge, NO. 3. and had held the office of W.M. The funeral took place at Norwood Cemetery, on Saturday, 19 May. 1906, and there was a memorial service vice at St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook, which was attended by the Lord Mayor of London and Sheriffs in state. Three children and the widow survive (see Morris, Humphrey William ; Morris Dorothy ; and� Wallace, Gwendolen).
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