William R. Morris

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{{Infobox Officeholder

| name =William R. Morris

| honorific-suffix =CMG ISO

| image = William Morris CMG ISO.jpg

| caption =

| office =Public Service Commissioner

| term_start =1920

| term_end =1923

| primeminister =William Massey

| predecessor =Donald Robertson

| successor =Paul Verschaffelt

| birth_date = 1853

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = 1936

| death_place =

}}

William Russell Morris {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|ISO}} (1853–1936) was the second Public Service Commissioner in New Zealand. He was born in Dublin, and joined the New Zealand Post Office in 1875. He was appointed a Companion of the Imperial Service Order in the 1917 Birthday Honours, and made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1919 New Year Honours.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19190101.2.31 |title=New year honours |date=1 January 1919 |work=New Zealand Herald |page=4 |volume=55 |issue=17047 |access-date=24 August 2021}}

He married Edith Miranda Mountfoot (1857–1938) in 1877.