Born at Numbaa near Nowra to surveyor Henry Gordon Morton and Jane Fairles (his brothers Philip and Mark were also New South Wales politicians), he attended Numbaa Public School and then Hurstville College at Goulburn before becoming a bank teller at the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney.

In 1910 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Independent member for Hastings and Macleay.

He was Speaker of the Assembly from July to December 1913, completing the final months of Henry Willis's controversial term.

[1] He was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium, Sydney on Saturday 4 June 1932.

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