Henry Morris (education)

He was the Chief Education Officer for Cambridgeshire for over thirty years, taking up the post in 1922 during a time of depression in the United Kingdom following the First World War.

Following the end of the war he read moral sciences (philosophy) at King's College, Cambridge, graduating with a second-class degree in 1920.

Morris envisioned the integration of secondary and community education accessible by all those living in the villages and small towns around Cambridgeshire: the idea of 'village colleges'.

He described this as "raising the school leaving age to ninety", and firmly believed that education, both formal and informal, should be a lifelong process.

By the time of his death in 1961, there were many village colleges delivering education to both secondary school students (11- to 16-year-olds), and members of their local communities of all ages.

The Old Granary, Silver Street, Cambridge , Morris's home until 1946, where he is commemorated by a blue plaque