James Marshall Moorsom (16 November 1837 – 26 March 1918)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician.
Son of Vice-Admiral Constantine Moorsom and grandson of Admiral Robert Moorsom, who distinguished himself at the Battle of Trafalgar,[2] he was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Sir Henry Whatley Tyler.
[3] Moorsom served only three years in the House of Commons, until his defeat at the 1895 general election.
[3] Moorsom was father of Raisley Stewart Moorsom, whose daughter Sasha married the sociologist Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington; their son is the journalist Toby Young.
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