Hugh Morrison (English politician)

Hugh Morrison (8 June 1868 – 15 March 1931) was a British Conservative Party politician.

[1] The son of Alfred Morrison and Mabel née Chermside of Fonthill in Wiltshire, and grandson of millionaire businessman James Morrison, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

The couple had two children, including John Morrison, who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Margadale in 1965.

[1] Hugh and his brother, Major James Morrison, became two of the wealthiest men in the United Kingdom, having inherited their grandfather's fortune.

In his final years in parliament he was in ill health, and he resigned from the House of Commons in 1931.