Edward Ellis Morris

Edward Ellis Morris (25 December 1843 – 1 January 1902) was an English educationist and miscellaneous writer and latterly in colonial Australia.

He was an assistant master at St Peter's College, Radley, and at Haileybury, and in 1871 became headmaster of the Bedfordshire middle-class public school.

Morris took a prominent part in the management of the university; for several years he was president of the professorial board, and he was also 1876 elected to the council of Trinity College.

Austral English has been praised for its basis on "historic" (OED) principles, citing examples of use for each entry through time.

Morris also wrote two small volumes for the "Epochs of Modern History" series, The Age of Anne (1877), and The Early Hanovarians (1886).

The grave of Edward Ellis Morris, Kensal Green Cemetery, London