The son of Dr. Augustus Morcom and his wife, Alice Farr, he was born at Dunstable in February 1885.
He played first-class cricket for Cambridge until 1907, making a total of twenty appearances.
[3] A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he formed a formidable bowling partnership with Guy Napier and Percy May,[4] taking 85 wickets for Cambridge, at an average of 23.77.
[1] From 1916, he served in First World War with the Royal Army Medical Corps, holding the rank of lieutenant in April 1917.
[11] He returned to London in 1920, later holding the position of senior anesthetist at the Belgrave Hospital for Children.