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Chapter 2—Frequency Distribution and Tables

Additional Questions

1. What is the most appropriate number of class intervals for scores ranging from 21 to 85?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6

2. The first interval in a frequency distribution conventionally begins with what number?
a. An even number
b. An odd number
c. A number lower than the lowest score in the distribution
d. Lowest score in the distribution
e. Multiple of the size of the class interval

3. In general, what class interval size is best for a range of scores from 72 through 136?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6

4. What value is represented at the top of a cumulative frequency column?

a. N
b. N – 1
c. N + 1
d. 100%
e. None of the above

5. Which of the following indicates the most favorable rank?

a. 2nd out of 4
b. 3rd out of 5
c. 4th out of 10
d. 5th out of 15

6. What percentage of cases lies between the first and third quartiles?
a. 20%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 75%
e. Percentage varies

7. What is the midpoint of a class interval of 10–19?

a. 14
b. 15
c. 14.5
d. 15.5

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8. Indicate the best class interval size for the following ranges.
a. 1–45 3 4 5
b. 72–136 3 4 5
c. 42–237 13 14 15

Short Answer

9. List the class boundaries for score limits of 18–19. _____ to _____

10. Identify the midpoint of a class interval of 18–19. _____________

11. Score limits are 21–23. List the class boundaries. _____ to _____

12. Score limits are 21–23. List the midpoint of the interval. _____________

13. Is it easier to work with an even number or odd number class interval size? even odd

14. What effect does a large class interval size have on scores in a frequency distribution?

True-False

15. If 10 score points separate the 70th and 80th percentiles, then 10 score points separate
each decile level. T F

16. For class sizes above 15, the preferred rule is to use a higher multiple. T F

17. The third quartile is the same as the 75th centile. T F

18. The 70th centile indicates the score above which 70% of cases fall. T F

19. A frequency percentage is equal to relative frequency multiplied by 100. T F

20. A complex table is preferable to a simple table. T F

21. Abbreviations and acronyms facilitate interpretation of a table. T F

22. All tables should have a title. T F

23. Relative frequency and frequency percentage are only computed for qualitative data. T F

24. Equal class widths are preferred to unequal class widths. T F

25. A percentile score and a percentile rank refer to the same thing. T F

26. A range is a category into which a score can be placed. T F

27. Percentile scores are equally divided up and down a percentile scale. T F

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28. A medical terminology instructor surveys a class of 50 students regarding their class status:
freshman (F), sophomore (So), junior (J)), senior (Sr). The results are:
F So Sr J So So J So J Sr So F So So J J So F
J So J So So So F J So J So J F So J Sr So J J
So Sr J So J So F So F So So J J

Construct a frequency distribution including relative frequency and frequency percentage columns.

29. A medical center decided to track discharges. The choices included: H (home); AC (another acute
care facility); NH (nursing home); HH (home health); Hos (hospice); Rehab (inpatient); and E
(expired). Discharges include:
H HH Hos NH H H AC H Rehab H NH Hos H NH H
H H NH E Rehab AC Hos HH NH AC H Rehab E HH
Rehab AC HH NH H Rehab H NH AC H Rehab H H NH
Hos H H NH HH H NH H H H HH HH

Construct a frequency distribution including relative frequency and frequency percentage columns.

30. The cancer registrar recorded the age (at the time of initial diagnosis) of patients diagnosed with
lung cancer. A total of 80 cases were recorded. The ages are ranked from oldest to youngest.
91 86 83 82 81 80 80 79 78 77 76 75 75 74 74 73 73 72
72 72 71 71 70 70 70 70 69 69 68 68 67 67 67 66 66 66
66 66 65 65 65 64 64 63 63 62 62 61 61 61 60 60 59 59
59 58 58 57 57 57 56 56 55 54 53 53 52 51 49 48 47 46
45 44 42 40 39 38 35 29

a. Construct a frequency distribution table with the lowest interval score limits of 25–29. Include
the following columns:
1) Midpoint
2) Frequency
3) Cumulative frequency
4) Relative frequency
5) Frequency percentage
b. Determine the value for:
1) 1st decile
2) 3rd decile
3) 65th percentile
4) 85th percentile
5) Percentile for an age of 48
6) Average age at time of diagnosis

CHAPTER 2—Frequency Distribution and Tables

1. c Rationale: See definition of class interval.

2. e Rationale: See definition of frequency distribution.
3. c Rationale 5 would be the most appropriate size for this range.
4. a c Rationale See definition of cumulative frequency column.
5. d c Rationale the rank of 5th of 15 is most favorable because there is a larger group to be compared to.
6. c Rationale: See definition of quartiles

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year round about 1850–65; sub-editor of The Examiner, then editor;
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March 1838; founded the Literary Association and Mechanics’
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1811; solicitor at Oxford 1832 to death; solicitor to univ. of Oxford
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leading physician in Lower Canada; one of the three founders of
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68; knighted by the marquess of Normanby 1836. d. the Mall,
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MORRIS, C D’U (6 son of rear admiral Henry Gage Morris
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coll. Oxf. 1845; scholar Lincoln coll. 1846–50; fellow of Oriel coll.
1851–54; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1853;
rector of Trinity school, New York 1853–6; kept a private school for
boys at Lake Mohegan; professor in New York univ.; professor of
Latin and Greek in the Johns Hopkins univ. Baltimore 1876 to
death; author of Principia Latina 1860; A compendious grammar of
Attic Greek 1869, 4 ed. 1876; A compendious grammar of the Latin
language 1870, 4 ed. 1876; Probatio Latina 1871; Latin reading
book 1873. d. Baltimore 7 Feb. 1886. Appleton’s American
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1848; military comr. to 2 corps of French army in the Crimea 1855;
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April 1865; military attaché Vienna 1874–5; L.G. 1 July 1880;
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Nov. 1843, when placed on half pay; served in Canada, at the Cape
of Good Hope and in Bengal 1821–43, and on his return was only
remaining officer who had set out in 1821; aide de camp to the
queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; col. 97 foot 14 May 1859 to
15 Dec. 1861; col. 49 foot 15 Dec. 1861 to death; general 13 March
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Wrexham 1842; ed. at Birmingham and Wrexham; solicitor of firm
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Wales, while on a visit to Wrexham 27 Aug. 1889; captain 1
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MORRIS, F O (eld. son of rear admiral Henry Gage Morris
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1810; ed. at Bromsgrove sch. and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834;
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C. of Taxal, Cheshire 1836; C. of Ch. Ch. Doncaster 1836; C. of
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near Driffield 1844–54; chaplain to duke of Cleveland 1844; R. of
Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1854 to death; edited the Naturalist, vols.
vi to viii, 1856–8; author of A history of British birds, 6 vols. 1851–
7, 3 ed. 1891; A natural history of the nests and eggs of British
birds, 3 vols. 1853–6, 3 ed. 1892; A history of British butterflies
1853, 3 ed. 1853; A natural history of British moths, 4 vols. 1859–
70; Dogs and their doings 1870, 2 ed. 1887; Anecdotes in natural
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gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 5 vols. 1866–80; and about
53 other books. d. Nunburnholme 10 Feb. 1893. F. Ross’s
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MORRIS, S G (2 son of colonel Samuel Morris of Littleton,
Tipperary). b. 1774; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. 2 dragoon
guards 13 June 1805; major 3 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 8 July 1819,
when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814; served in actions
and sieges in the West Indies 1795–1801; on the staff in Portugal
and Spain 1808–9; served at Cape of Good Hope, in France, and at
Gibraltar; usher of the black rod to order of St. Patrick 1841 to
death; knighted by patent 1841. d. 32 Gardiner’s place, Mountjoy
square, Dublin, May 1858.
MORRIS, H G (2 son of Henry Gage Morris, rear admiral
1770–1851). b. 1811; sub-lieut. R.N. 1830; served at battle of
Navarino 1827 and in China 1842; captain 10 May 1856, retired 1
July 1866; retired admiral 27 March 1885; author of Forty five
predictions of the Old Testament 1855. d. 21 Queen Anne’s gate,
London 21 Jany. 1891.
MORRIS, J . b. 1795; head of firm of Morris, Prevost and co.
merchants 25 Old Broad st. London; a director of bank of England
1827–80 and governor 1847–48; contested Liverpool 8 Jany. 1835
and Cork 5 July 1841. d. 17 Cadogan place, London 9 May 1882.
MORRIS, J. B. On the Irish turf; came to London; purchased Hungerford
from George Osbaldeston for 80 guineas and with him won the
Great Yorkshire handicap twice and the Suffolk stakes at
Newmarket; bought Kingston from lord Ribblesdale for 2,000
guineas and with him won the Goodwood cup, the Northumberland
plate, and the whip at Newmarket; won the Doncaster St. Leger
with Knight of St. George and cleared £30,000, 1854; generally
known by name of Jelly. Sporting Review xxxix 363–4 (1858).
MORRIS, J E G . b. 1803; entered Bombay army
1819; lieut. 24 Bombay N.I. 1821, captain 9 March 1830, major 10
Nov. 1843 to 3 July 1848; lieut. col. of 12 N.I 3 July 1848 to 1853,
of 28 N.I. 1853–4, and of 5 N.I. 1854–7; commandant Baroda 20
May 1854 to 22 Sept. 1856; commandant Hyderabad 22 Sept. 1856
 to 18 Feb. 1858; col. of 15 N.I. 2 Dec. 1857 to death; M.G. 13 April
1860. d. 5 Compton terrace, Brighton 10 March 1867.
MORRIS, J (son of John Morris, timber merchant). b. Homerton,
London 19 Feb. 1810; ed. at Clifton, Nuneham, and Parson’s Green,
Fulham; pharmaceutical chemist at Kensington some years;
professor of geology and mineralogy at Univ. college London 1854
to Sept. 1877, emeritus professor 1877 to death, delivered 1100
lectures; lectured at the Coal exchange on coal and coal mining;
F.G.S. 1845, Lyell medallist 1876, presented with an address and
£600 by Geological soc. 14 July 1870; president of the Geological
Association 1877; admitted to freedom of the Turners’ company 7
Feb. 1878; hon. M.A. Cambridge 6 June 1878; with H. Woodward
edited The geological magazine, vol. 3 1864; author of A catalogue
of British fossils 1843 2 ed. 1854; A new geological chart, showing
the stratified rocks 1859, new ed. 1865; A series of large geological
diagrams 1878; and upwards of 55 papers in scientific journals. d.
22 Bolton road, St. John’s Wood, London 7 Jany. 1886. bur. Kensal
Green cemet. 13 Jany. Geological Mag. (1878) 481–7 portrait,
(1886) 95–6; Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xlii 44 (1886).
MORRIS, S J (son of Edward Morris). b. Wolverhampton 1821; a
manufacturer at Wolverhampton; mayor of Wolverhampton 1866–7;
knighted on unveiling of statue of prince Albert at Wolverhampton
30 Nov. 1866. d. Bycullah park, Enfield, Middlesex 27 Feb. 1889.
MORRIS, J (son of John Carnac Morris 1798–1858). b.
Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Southern India 4 July 1826;
ed. at East Shean, Surrey and Harrow 1838 etc.; admitted pensioner
of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1845; received into Church of Rome 20
May 1846; studied at English college Rome 1846–9; ordained priest
Sept. 1849; missioner at Northampton, then at Great Marlow; canon
of Northampton 1852; vice-rector of English college at Rome
1852–5; canon of Northampton; private secretary to cardinal
Wiseman 1856, and to cardinal Manning 1865; canon penitentiary
of Westminster 1861; entered Society of Jesus Feb. 1867, took his
first vows at Louvain 1 March 1869; he was successively minister
at Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey, socius to the provincial
Father Whitty, first superior of the Oxford mission and professor of
ecclesiastical history and canon law in the college of St. Beuno,
North Wales to 1877 and 1878–9; vice-rector at Roehampton 1879,
rector 1880–6; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1889; head of the Jesuits at Farm st.
 Berkeley sq. London 1891–3; edited Historical papers 1892; author
of The life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, archbishop of
Canterbury 1859, 2 ed. 1885; The last illness of his eminence
cardinal Wiseman, 3 ed. 1865; The troubles of our Catholic
forefathers, related by themselves, 3 vols. 1872–7; The life of
Father John Gerrard, 3 ed. 1881. d. while preaching in the Jesuit
church at Wimbledon 22 Oct. 1893.
MORRIS, J B (son of rev. John Morris, D.D. schoolmaster).
b. New Brentford, Middlesex 4 Sept. 1812; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1837,
resigned 24 Jany. 1846; joined the Church of Rome 16 Jany. 1846,
ordained priest 1849; professor at Prior Park near Bath 1851; canon
of Plymouth cathedral 6 Dec. 1853; domestic chaplain to E. R.
Bastard of Kitley, Devon 1852, to sir John Acton of Aldenham hall,
Shropshire 1855, and to Coventry Patmore at Heron’s Ghyll, Sussex
1868; later on he was chaplain to the Sœurs de Miséricorde, a
convent of nursing nuns at St. Vincent house, 49 Queen st.
Hammersmith to death; author of An essay towards the conversion
of learned and philosophical Hindus 1843; Nature a parable, a poem
1842; Jesus the son of Mary or the doctrine of the Catholic church
upon the incarnation of God the Son, 2 vols. 1851; Taleetha
Koomee or the gospel prophecy of our lady’s assumption, a drama
1858; translated for the Library of the Fathers St. Chrysostom’s
Homilies on the Romans 1841; and Select works of St. Ephrem
1846. d. 34 Queen st. Hammersmith 9 April 1880. bur. Mortlake.
MORRIS, J C (eld. son of John Morris, chairman of H.E.I.
Co.) b. 16 Oct. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1813–5; entered Madras
civil service 1818; his legs paralysed 1823; F.R.S. 10 March 1831;
Telugu translator to government at Madras 1832; civil auditor or
accountant general 1839; established the Madras government bank
1834, secretary and treasurer 1834, superintendent 1835; edited the
Madras journal of literature and science from 1834; civil auditor
and superintendent of stamps 1843; left India 1 July 1846 and
settled in London; established a company to run steamers between
Milford Haven and Australia by way of Panama; promoter and
managing director of London and Eastern banking company,
chairman 1855, bank was wound up 1858; author of Telugu
selections, with translations and grammatical analyses, Madras
1823, new ed. 1858; A dictionary of English and Teloogoo, 2 vols.
 Madras 1835. d. Jersey 2 Aug. 1858. bur. St. Heliers. C. C.
Prinsep’s Records of Madras civil servants (1885) 101–2.
MORRIS, M . b. Jamaica 1819; ed. at Cambridge univ.; barrister
I.T. 11 June 1841; a contributor to the Times 1847, and manager
about 1848–73; m. 6 Nov. 1858 Emily, youngest dau. of Wm.
Frederick Augustus Delane, financial manager of The Times. d. 21
April 1874. Publisher’s Circular (1874) 308; The Mask (1868) 42
portrait; The Times 4 May 1874 p. 1.
MORRIS, R . b. 1845; inventor of the Morris tube for rifles,
patented 25 April 1881; managing director of Morris tube
ammunition and safety range company at 7–9 St. Bride st. Ludgate
circus, London 1887, afterwards at 11 Haymarket to death, resided
at 42 Bennett park, Blackheath. shot himself at 11 Haymarket,
London 14 Dec. 1891. The Times 18 Dec. 1891 p. 12.
MORRIS, R . b. London 1833; ed. St. John’s coll. Battersea;
lecturer on English language and literature King’s coll. school,
London 1869–90; cr. LL.D. by archbp. of Canterbury 1870; C. of
Ch. Ch. Camberwell 1871; on council of Philological soc., president
1874; on council of Early English text soc.; hon. M.A. of Oxf.
1874; chaplain of Royal masonic institute for boys, Wood Green
July 1875, resigned 1888; edited for the Early English text soc.
Early English alliterative poems 1864, Sir Gawayne and the Green
knight 1864, The story of Genesis and Exodus 1865, Dan Michel’s
Ayenbite of Inwyt 1866, Old English homilies 1868, Chaucer’s
translation of Boethius De Consolatione philosophiæ 1868, Legends
of the holy rood 1871, An old English miscellany 1872, Cursor
mundi 1874; and The Blickling homilies 1874; he also edited The
poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1866, Specimens of Early
English 1867, 3 ed. with W. W. Skeat 1872; Complete works of
Edmund Spenser 1869; author of The etymology of local names
1857; Historical outlines of English accidence 1872; English
grammar 1875. d. Harold Wood, Essex 12 May 1894. bur.
Hornchurch, Essex 17 May. I.L.N. 26 May 1894 p. 643 portrait.
MORRIS, S S O (3 son of rev. Ebenezer Morris of
Llanelly, Carmarthen). b. 1847; ed. Christ’s hospital, London 1857,
scholar, a Grecian 1866; of Jesus coll. Oxf. 1866, scholar 1866–71;
B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; assist. master Ystrad-Menrig gr. sch. 1870–
2; head master Dolgelly gr. sch. 1873–8; C. of Dolgelly 1873–8;
 naval instructor 1878, chaplain R.N. 2 Aug. 1878, interpreter in
Spanish 1888, chaplain and naval instructor in H.M.S. Victoria
which was lost off Tripoli 22 June 1893, brass memorial tablet
placed in Great hall of Christ’s hospital Sept. 1893.
MORRIS, W . b. 1821; cornet 16 lancers 18 June 1842, lieut. 14
May 1845; captain 17 lancers 25 April 1851, major 17 Sept. 1857 to
death; commanded his regiment at battle of Balaklava; C.B. 5 July
1855. d. Poona, Bombay 11 July 1858.
MORRIS, W (eld. son of Thomas Morris of Reading). b. 11 Feb.
1825; studied at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; barrister G.I. 18
Nov. 1867; recorder of Maidenhead 1880 to death. d. 14 Dec. 1886.
MORRIS, W (2 son of Wm. Morris of Exeter). b. 9 July 1820;
barrister I.T. 16 Jany. 1846; held briefs in the Cumming lunacy case
1852, the Gilchrist trust, Whichen v. Hume 1853, and the Cochrane
succession, Lord v. Colvin 1856–69; author of The law of railway
and other joint stock companies. d. Caversham house, Brixton hill,
Surrey, 7 April 1889.
MORRIS, W P . b. London 29 Sept. 1794; entered the
Benedictine order 1810; a missionary priest in London 1818 etc.;
bishop of the island of Mauritius, with title of bishop of Troy 1832–
42; chaplain to the Nuns of the Sacred heart at Roehampton 1842 to
death. d. Roehampton, Surrey 18 Feb. 1872. The Tablet 24 Feb.
1872 pp. 238, 245.
MORRISON, A (youngest son of James Morrison 1790–1857). b.
1842; ed. at Eton; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 13 April 1861;
rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against Cam.-bridge 1862, 1863,
and 1865. d. Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks 1880.
MORRISON, G (brother of the preceding). b. 1835; ed. at Eton
and Balliol coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 5 in the Oxford boat against
Cambridge 1859–61; was umpire at the University boat race 1869–
70; purchased Hampworth lodge, Downton near Salisbury from
Robert Shafto 1867; sheriff of Wiltshire 1881. d. 4 April 1884.
MORRISON, G S (son of Robert Morrison, oriental
scholar 1782–1834). Student interpreter in China 30 June 1847;
secretary and registrar at Hong Kong 10 Dec. 1857; consul at
Nagasaki in Japan 21 Dec. 1858, retired on a pension 1 Jany. 1864;
severely wounded in an attack made on the British legation at Yedo
 by an armed band of Japanese 5 July 1861. d. Nice 20 Aug. 1893.
I.L.N. xxxix 427 (1861) portrait.
MORRISON, J (son of Joseph Morrison who d. 1804). b.
Hampshire 1790; partner in general drapery business of Joseph
Todd in Fore st. city of London, the firm became known as
Morrison, Dillon and co., and was converted into the Fore st.
company, limited; made a large fortune; bought land in Berkshire,
Bucks, Kent, Wiltshire, Yorkshire and Islay, Argyleshire; M.P. St.
Ives, Cornwall 1830; M.P. Ipswich 12 Dec. 1832 to 1835; contested
Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ipswich 19 June 1835 to 1837; M.P.
Inverness burghs 1840–7; made a large collection of pictures of the
old masters, Italian and Dutch and of English pictures; author of
Rail roads, speech in the House of Commons 1836; Observations
illustrative of the defects of the English system of railway
legislation 1846; The influence of English railway legislation on
trade and industry 1848. d. Basildon park near Reading 30 Oct.
1857, leaving between three and four millions. Puseley’s
Commercial companies (1858) p. 146; Waagen’s Cabinets of art
(1857) 105–13; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 300–312;
Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 260–63 (1854); The Town ii 795
(1839).
MORRISON, S J W (only son of James Morrison, deputy
master and worker of the Mint). b. London 1774; ed. at
Loughborough house school and Yverdun in Switzerland; clerk in
royal mint 1792; deputy master and worker 1803 to March 1851;
knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. d. the hermitage,
Snaresbrook, Essex 27 June 1856.
MORRISON, P . Merchant at 11 Virginia terrace, Dover road,
London 1840–1; resident director of Britannia Life assurance co. 1
Prince’s st. City of London 1842–51; founded the Bank of Deposit
at 7 St. Martin’s place May 1844, managing director there 1853–4
and at 3 Pall Mall east 1854–62, there were branches in Edinburgh,
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Lewes, and Dublin; proprietor of
the Atlas newspaper April or May 1859, lost £2,480 over it in 2½
years; resided at 44 Porchester sq. Hyde park 1855–62; adjudicated
bankrupt 27 Nov. 1861; proclaimed an outlaw 15 Feb. 1862.
Gazette of bankruptcy 1 Jany. 1862 pp. 4–5, 19 Feb. p. 184.
MORRISON, R J , known as Zadkiel (son of Richard Caleb
Morrison, gentleman pensioner under George III., who d. 1808). b.
London 15 June 1795; entered navy 1806, saw much boat service in
the Adriatic, lieut. 3 March 1815; served in the coastguard April
1827 to Oct. 1829, when placed on h.p.; presented to the admiralty a
plan for registering merchant seamen 22 April 1824, since adopted
in principle, also suggested a plan for providing seamen 6 March
1835; brought out The herald of astrology for the years 1831–34 by
Zadkiel the Seer, London 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, four volumes,
continued as The astronomical almanac for 1835 by Zadkiel 1834,
one volume, continued as Zadkiel’s almanac and herald of astrology
for 1836. 1835 and went on to his death; brought an action for libel
against sir Edward Belcher in the Queen’s Bench, when he got a
verdict with 20/-damages 29 June 1863; author under his own name
of Narrative of the loss of the Rothsay Castle in Beaumaris bay, 4
ed. 1831; Observations on Dr. Halley’s great comet, 2 ed. 1835; The
solar system as it is and not as it is represented 1857; Explanation of
the bell buoy invented by lieut. Morrison 1858; Astronomy in a
nutshell 1860; The comet, a map on the course of Encke’s comet
1860; The New Principia or true system of astronomy 1868, 2 ed.
1872; King David triumphant, a letter to the astronomer of Benares
1871; under the name of Zadkiel he also edited The horoscope, a
weekly miscellany Liverpool 1834, nineteen numbers; The
horoscope, a monthly magazine London 1 vol. 1841; The voice of
the stars No. 1 1862; and was author of Zadkiel’s magazine or
record of astrology, 2 numbers Jany. and Feb. 1849; The grammar
of astrology 1840. 3 ed. 1849; Zadkiel’s legacy, also essays on
Hindu astrology and the nativity of the prince of Wales 1842; An
essay on love and matrimony 1851; The hand-book of astrology 2
vols 1861–2; On the great first cause, his existence and attributes
1867; Zadkiel’s astronomical ephemeris for 1849 etc., 1848 etc. d.
Sunnyside, Knight’s park, Kingston-on-Thames 5 Feb. 1874.
Companion to Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1855 with a portrait; A.
Steinmetz’s Manual of weather casts (1866) 33; C. Cooke’s
Curiosities of occult literature (1863) 4–9, 242; A. D. Morgan’s
Budget of paradoxes (1872) 195, 277, 472; British almanac and
companion (1867) 119–22; Horace Welby’s Predictions realised
(1862) 37–8; A. J. Pearce’s Text book of astrology i 27–8, 207–8, ii
30 etc. (1879–89); Mercurius’s Predicting almanack for 1876 pp.
40–6 portrait; Athenæum vol. i 630, 666, 701 (1874).
 N .—He predicted the death of the Prince Consort in Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1861 thus “The
position of Saturn in May will be evil for all persons born upon or near the 26 Aug., among the
sufferers I regret to see the worthy prince consort of these realms.” The prince was b. 26 Aug.
1819 and d. at Windsor 14 Dec. 1861.

MORRISON, R . b. parish of Moy, Invernessshire 14 Feb. 1822;

manager of works of Messrs. Hawthorn at Newcastle 1844–53;
manufacturer of engines at Ouseburn from 1853; invented and
patented an improved steam hammer, which gained first prize at
Exhibition of 1862; made a hammer of 40 tons for Russia 1863;
M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861. d. 20 Dec. 1869. Minutes of proc. of Instit.
of C.E. xxxi 220–22 (1871).
MORRISSEY, J . b. Templemore, Tipperary 5 Feb. 1831; taken to
Lower Canada 1836 and to Troy, New York 3 months later;
apprenticed to an iron moulder at Troy; bar-tender at Aleck
Hamilton’s house, Troy; an emigrant runner in New York 1849;
fought George Thompson on Mare Island 31 Aug. 1852 for 2,000
dollars a side and championship of California and won in 9 rounds;
fought Yankee Sullivan at Boston Four-corners, 100 miles from
New York 5 Oct. 1853 for 2,000 dollars a side and won in 37
rounds; badly beaten by Wm. Poole in New York 26 July 1854.
Poole was killed by Morrissey’s friends 24 Feb. 1855; fought J. C.
Heenan at Long Point Island in lake Erie 10 Oct. 1858 for 5,000
dollars a side and the championship of America and won in 11
rounds lasting 21 minutes; kept a gambling house where he lost
124,000 dollars in one night to Benjamin Wood 1867; opened a
large gambling house in Saratoga 1869, made Saratoga a famous
summer resort; member of Congress 6 Nov. 1866 to death. d.
Saratoga, New York county 1 May 1878. bur. St. Peter’s cemetery,
Troy 4 May. W. E. Harding’s John Morrissey, his life, battles and
wrangles (1880) portrait; Nation 9 May 1878 pp. 304–5.
MORRITT, W J S (son of rev. Robert Morritt). b. 12
Sep. 1813; ensign 37 foot 15 March 1831, lieut. 15 March 1833;
lieut. 77 foot Feb. 1834, sold out 26 Dec. 1834; came into Rokeby
estate, Yorkshire on death of his uncle 1843; started the Four in
hand driving club April 1856; crippled by a dog cart accident; M.P.
north riding of Yorkshire 1862–5; one of the best coachmen of his
day. d. Brighton 13 April 1874. Baily’s mag. xxv 249–54 (1874)
portrait.
MORROGH, L . b. county of Cork; lawyer and estate agent
Dublin; master of the Ward Union stag hounds 1864; injured by a
fall from his horse when hunting and d. Castleboro’ house, lord
Carew’s residence, Wexford 13 Jany. 1889. Baily’s mag. xxx 373
(1877) portrait li, 132 (1889).
MORSE, C (2 son of George Morse of Catton park, Norfolk
1783–1852). b. Norwich 20 Aug. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; played in the cricket matches against
Oxford 1842–4; generally played under name of Esrom; first match
at Lords in Marylebone v. Undergraduates of Camb. 6 June 1842;
member of I. Zingari with whom he usually played; on 22 Aug.
1850 in Gentlemen of Leicester v. I. Zingari he scored 145 runs in
one inning; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848. d. 25 March 1883.
Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 78 (1863).
MORSE, F (son of Thomas Morse of Flixton near Lowestoft). b.
1819; ed. at Shrewsbury gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Tamworth, Staffs. 1846–50; C. of Ch. Ch.
Birmingham 1852; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury 1853; P.C. of St.
John’s, Ladywood, Birmingham 1854–64; Hulsean lecturer at
Camb. 1863; V. of St. Mary’s, Nottingham 1864 to death; preb. of
Lincoln cath. 1867 to 1885, and of Southwell cath. 1885 to death;
member of Nottingham sch. board Feb. 1871, then chairman;
founded the annual Saturday and Sunday collections for the local
hospital; author of Parents, God’s nurses, a gift at the font 1848, 9
ed. 1879; Working for God, four sermons 1857; The cleansing
blood 1859; Confirmation, nine addresses 1879; Peace, the voice of
the church to the sick 1888. d. suddenly at residence of J. Watson,
J.P., the Park, Nottingham 18 Sept. 1886.
MORSE, J . Entered Bombay army 1802; lieut. 7 Bombay N.I. 3
Oct. 1804, captain 1 Jany. 1818; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1824 to 1829 or
1830; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 1829 or 1830–1831; lieut. col. 3 N.I. 1831–
32, of 6 N.I. 1832–33, of 3 N.I. 1833–35, and of 10 N.I. 1835 to 28
June 1838; col. of 6 N.I. 15 Jany. 1841 to death; commanded
Northern division 19 Sept. 1842–45, and Southern division 1845–
47; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Farley court, Berkshire 20 Sept. 1859.
MORSE, S . b. Norwich 1825; a German jew; ed. in England;
endeavoured to introduce the Passion play into New York 1883;
 found drowned in the North river at 88th street, New York 22 Feb.
1884.
MORSHEAD, W H A (son of colonel Henry
Anderson Morshead of Widey court, Devon). b. 1811; entered navy
4 Sep. 1823; served in China 1841–2, in Black sea 1854, at
Sebastopol and capture of Kinburn 1855; captain 23 Dec. 1842;
R.A. 4 Oct. 1862; V.A. 15 Jany. 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired
admiral 30 July 1875; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150
a year 11 Jany. 1876. d. 4 Osborne place, Plymouth 18 Feb. 1886.
MORSON, T N R . b. Stratford le bow, London;
apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet market, London; learnt
chemistry under Planché of Paris, pharmacien; operative chemist in
Southampton row, Holborn, London 1827 to death; established a
factory at Hornsey road 1837, and the Summerfield works at
Homerton 1869; produced in his laboratory the first sulphate of
quinine made in England, and the first morphia; invented a
medicine called pepsine; member of Pharmaceutical society, on the
council to 1870, vice president, then president; F.L.S. d. 38 Queen
sq. Bloomsbury, London April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 353 (1874).
MORT, C C . b. 1804; editor and joint proprietor with his
brother of Staffordshire Advertiser 1828 to death; mayor of Stafford
1842, and alderman 1853. d. Moss Pitt house, Stafford 8 Feb. 1858.
The Staffordshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 1858 p. 4.
MORT, T S . b. Bolton, Lancs. 23 Dec. 1816; clerk with
Aspinwall, Brown & co. Sydney 1837–43; an auctioneer Sydney
1843; established public wool sales in Sydney, and ultimately the
firm of Mort & co. the largest wool-broking firm in Australia;
formed the Great nuggett vein mining co. 1851; established a large
dairy business at Bodalla Moruja district 1855; engaged in
cultivation of silk, cotton and sugar, and in coal mining; established
Mort’s Dock and engineering co. Sydney 1873; experimented on
freezing meat for export, but did not live to see the ultimate success
of the process; his statue erected in Macquarie place, Sydney 1873.
d. Bodalla near Sydney 9 May 1878. The Australian portrait gallery
(1885) 51–6 portrait.
MORTIMER, F L (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of
Barclay, Bevan & co. London). b. London 1802; founded parish
schools on her father’s estates; m. in the year 1841 Thomas
 Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road,
London, who d. 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of the
earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving
1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon line 1837;
The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia and Australia
described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the first missionaries
in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon precept 1867, 2 ed.
1869; and 20 other books. d. Runton near Cromer 22 Aug. 1878.
bur. in churchyard, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk. The Family Friend
(1878) 183.
MORTIMER, G F W (eld. son of Wm. Mortimer of
Bishopsteignton, Devon). b. Bishopsteignton 22 July 1805; ed. at
Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1823; Michel exhibitioner
Queen’s coll. 1823–6, scholar 1826–30; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829,
D.D. 1841; ordained 24 Feb. 1829; head master of Newcastle gr.
sch. 1828, and of Western proprietary school Brompton, London
1833; head master of City of London school 1840, resigned
Michaelmas 1865, two of his pupils were senior wranglers and
senior classics at Cambridge 1861; was voted freedom of City of
London 25 May 1848; hon. preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral April 1865
to death; evening lecturer at St. Matthew’s, Friday st.; author of a
pamphlet entitled The immediate abolition of slavery compatible
with the safety and prosperity of the colonies, Newcastle 1833. d.
Rose Hill, Hampton Wick. 7 Sept. 1871. E. W. Linging’s History of
City of London school (1882) 28–9; Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp.
179–80; City Press 16 Dec. 1882 Supplement, portrait.
MORTIMER, J . b. 1782; M.D. St. Andrews 1829; surgeon in the
navy; surgeon of Haslar hospital 22 years; hospital surgeon at
Antigua, Martinique and Barbadoes 30 years; inspector of hospitals
and fleets; author of West India fever 1816. d. Upper South st.
Gosport 25 April 1856.
MORTIMER, W . b. Lewisham hill, Kent 1809; master of the Old
Surrey fox hounds 1871; treasurer of the Hunt servants’ benefit soc.
1884. d. The Valley, Bromley, Kent 19 Jany. 1886. Bailey’s mag. xx
1 (1871) portrait, xlv 272 (1886).
MORTLOCK, W (son of Thomas Mortlock a cricket umpire). b.
Clayton st. Kennington, Surrey 18 July 1832; a cricket ball maker;
practised at the Oval; long stop to the Surrey elevens, never using
 pads or gloves, long stopped for 12,000 balls for only 3 byes; a
good bat for his county Surrey from 1850; first played at Lord’s in
M.C.C. v. Surrey club 12 June 1854; made good scores in 1862 and
1863; one of the first English team visiting Australia 1861;
cricketing tutor at Dr. Scale’s school, Wellesley house,
Twickenham; known as Old Stonewall; cricketing outfitter at
Waterloo railway station 1864 to death; opened the Lambeth baths
for cricket practice 28 Jany. 1868 but soon closed them. d. 23 Jany.
1884. bur. Norwood cemet. 28 Jany. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores iv
588 (1863); Illust. Sporting news iii 345 (1864) portrait; Illust.
Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93 portrait; Cricket Jany. 1884 p. 10.
MORTON, G S D 17 Earl of (eld. son of lieut. col.
John Douglas 1756–1818). b. London 23 Dec. 1789; ed. at Trin.
coll. Camb., M.A. 1810; attaché at Madrid 1811; secretary of
legation at Stockholm 1812, at Florence 1814, at Berlin 17 Feb.
1816, retired on a pension 5 Jany. 1825; succeeded his cousin as 17
Earl 17 July 1827; a representative peer of Scotland 1830 to death; a
lord-in-waiting 1841–9 and Feb. to Dec. 1852; lieut. col. of
Midlothian yeomanry cavalry 1843–4; vice lieutenant of Midlothian
10 Sept. 1854 to death. d. 47 Brook st. London 31 March 1858.
MORTON, A . b. Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland 8 March 1820; ed.
at Yale univ.; began manufacture of gold pens in New York city
1851, invented automatic processes for pointing, tempering and
grinding them 1851–60, his pens obtained a high reputation. d. New
York 12 Oct. 1869.
MORTON, C (eld. son of Samuel Morton of Edinburgh,
agricultural implement maker). b. 21 Jany. 1806; writer to the signet
8 July 1828; crown agent June and July 1866, 1868–74 and 1880–3;
took part in the Torbane Hill mineral case, the action against the
directors of the Western Bank of Scotland, and other famous cases.
d. Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1892.
MORTON, J . b. Kelso 1783; ed. at Kelso and St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.D. 1824; V. of Holbeach, Lincs. 1831 to death;
prebendary of Lincoln 1831 to death; edited for the Abbotsford club
The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria 1841; and for the
Camden soc. The Ancren Riwle 1853; author of The poetical
remains of John Leyden 1819; Memoirs of J. Leyden, Calcutta