1789 – August 22, 1849) was an Irish-born merchant, ship owner, farmer, author and politician in Newfoundland.
Passengers from Ireland, the main overseas source of seasonal labour, increased in concert with the volume of supplies.
Morris's trade centered on the importation of passengers and provisions from his native Waterford and the return of cargoes of cod and oil.
Morris then sent his ships to Cork and Liverpool, and after 1825 to Hamburg and Danzig, where prices were half those in British ports.
Morris was married twice: to Mary Foley in 1814, by whom he had one child, and to Frances Bullen in 1830, by whom he had six children.