Morris, Charles Arthur (1860 - 1942)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E004692 - Morris, Charles Arthur (1860 - 1942)

Title
Morris, Charles Arthur (1860 - 1942)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E004692

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2013-11-21

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Morris, Charles Arthur (1860 - 1942), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Morris, Charles Arthur

Date of Birth
10 October 1860

Place of Birth
Guntoor, Madras Presidency, India

Date of Death
25 February 1942

Place of Death
Chelsea

Occupation
General surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
CVO 1901
 
MRCS 19 July 1882
 
FRCS 14 June 1888
 
BA Cambridge 1880
 
MA MB 1884
 
MCh 1888

Details
Born 10 October 1860 at Guntoor, Madras Presidency, second son of Frederick William Morris, Indian Civil Service, and Charlotte Georgina Parnell, his wife. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1880, the last year of the old regulations before the examination was divided into two parts, and first class honours in medicine and forensic medicine at the MB examination 1884. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he afterwards served as house surgeon. He was subsequently resident medical officer at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. He then settled in general practice at 22 Chester Square, London, SW. Through the period of the Boer War and the war of 1914-18 he was medical officer to the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers founded by Miss Agnes Keyser. Sister Agnes was a close personal friend of Morris and his wife. For his services to this hospital he was created CVO by King Edward VII. He was also surgeon to the Sloane Square Dispensary and to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and Children, Vincent Square, to which he was appointed consulting surgeon on retirement. Morris served with the Queen's Westminster Volunteers, receiving a certificate of proficiency as a medical officer, and was gazetted major, RAMC(T) on 11 September 1914. Morris married on 3 October 1893 Ethel Edith Seldon, but there were no children. After a time he lived at 11 Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea, SW3 and died at 39 Royal Avenue, Chelsea on 25 February 1942, aged 81. The funeral service was held at St Michael's, Chester Square, where Morris had been a churchwarden for over thirty years. Publcations: Primary sarcoma of vagina developing during pregnancy, *Practitioner*, 1898, 61, 593. Some war sequelae, *Lancet*, 1901, 2, 1559.

Sources
*Brit med J*, 1942, 1, 399
 
Information given by Sir Harold S Morris, KC MBE

Rights
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Collection
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Format
Obituary

Format
Asset

Asset Path
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004600-E004699

URL for File
376875

Media Type
Unknown