Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris

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Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris ( December 4, 1930 , Cardiff , † April 30, 2001 ) was a British academic and poet.

Brian Morris visited the Cardiff High School and studied, after his military service, at Worcester College of Oxford University English. After graduating in 1954, he stayed as a teacher at Oxford University before moving to Stratford upon Avon in 1956 at the Shakespeare Institute . In 1958 he took a position at Reading University , from where he went to York University in 1967 . In 1971 he took over a professorship in English at the University of Sheffield .

Morris was born in Wales , but didn't learn the Welsh language until later in life . He began writing poetry during his military service, but his poems were first published during his time at Sheffield University. In these poems, Morris showed himself to be a Welsh nationalist. In 1980 he took over the management of St David's University College in Lampeter , in whose upgrading to the University of Wales in Lampeter he was instrumental.

In 1990 he was appointed Life Peer and represented the Labor Party in the House of Lords . He took the title of Baron Morris of Castle Morris of St Dogmaels in the County of Dyfed to distinguish it from the hereditary title of Baron Morris, as well as a number of other life peers.

He was very disappointed that his commitment to the Labor Party was not recognized after its victory in the 1997 parliamentary elections. Soon after, he was diagnosed with leukemia , from which he died in 2001. Brian Morris had been married since 1955; the couple had a son and a daughter.

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Publications

  • Brian Morris, Tide Race , 1976
  • Brian Morris, Stones in the Brook , 1978
  • Brian Morris, The Collected Poems of Brian Morris , Rare Books and Berry, 2001, ISBN 978-0953995103

Other publications

personal data
SURNAME Morris, Brian, Baron Morris of Castle Morris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morris, Brian; Morris, Brian, Baron Morris of Castle Morris of St Dogmaels in the County of Dyfed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British academic and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2001