John Ignatius Morris
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|death_place= Kensington, London
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|branch= Royal Marines
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Lieutenant General John Ignatius Morris (29 March 1842 – 1 October 1902) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
Military career
Morris was the son of Rev. G. S. Morris, of Bretforton, Worcestershire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituaries |date=4 October 1902 |page=6 |issue=36890}} He was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 12 May 1859.{{London Gazette|issue=22280|page=2515|date=12 May 1859}} He sailed in the first-rate HMS Queen off the coast of Naples in the aftermath of the Second Italian War of Independence in 1860 and then sailed off the coast of Syria during the Mount Lebanon Civil War later that year.{{cite web|url= http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/joseph-jackson-howard/visitation-of-england-and-wales-volume-17-awo/page-11-visitation-of-england-and-wales-volume-17-awo.shtml |title= Visitation of England and Wales|volume=17|accessdate=23 May 2016}} In the early 1860s he landed several times with armed parties to protect British interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, including Lebanon and Greece.
Morris served in the Nile Expedition in 1884, and was with the Royal Marine battalion at the Suakin Expedition in 1885. From March 1885 until the end of the expedition he was Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General of the Suakin Field force and Assistant Provost Marshal and Press Censor. When the expedition was abolished he was for a time Commandant of Suakin Town.
After his return to the United Kingdom, Morris was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1888.
Morris became colonel commandant of the Royal Marine Depot, Deal in 1897 and Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in March 1900,{{London Gazette|issue=27174|page=1791|date=16 March 1900}} before retiring in June 1902 due to ill health.{{cite web|url= http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201865-.pdf|title=Senior Royal Navy appointments|accessdate=20 May 2016}} He committed suicide in Kensington on 1 October 1902.{{cite web|url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TS19021127.2.13 |title=Suicide of a general|work=The Star|date=27 November 1902|page=2|accessdate=23 May 2016}}
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Category:Royal Marines lieutenant generals
Category:British military personnel of the Mahdist War
Category:Members of the Inner Temple
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Category:19th-century Royal Marines personnel