John Morris SJ (4 July 1826 – 22 October 1893) was an English Jesuit priest and scholar of ecclesiastical history.
He was a son of John Carnac Morris, FRS, an official of the East India Company who was also a noted scholar of Telugu, and of his wife, Rosanna Curtis.
Giving up the thought of taking the law as his profession, he became enthusiastic for ecclesiastical antiquities, took a deep interest in the Tractarian movement, and resolved to become an Anglican clergyman.
Going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1845,[1] Morris became the friend, and then the pupil of F. A. Paley, grandson of the well-known divine, and already one of the leading Greek scholars of the university.
Paley had to leave Cambridge (which led to his subsequently joining the Catholic Church), while Morris was practically cast off by his family.