R. O. Morris

On the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, along with his friends George Butterworth and Geoffrey Toye.

[4] His students included the composers Hugo Cole, Jean Coulthard, Gerald Finzi, Sir Michael Tippett, Constant Lambert, Robin Milford, Anthony Milner, Edmund Rubbra and Bernard Stevens.

However, Morris enjoyed a ten-year period of creativity as a composer roughly between 1922 and 1932, writing symphonic and chamber music, songs and choral works.

[15] The Sinfonia in C was revived at the English Music Festival in Dorchester Abbey on 27 May 2022, with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates.

[19] He later moved to 2, Addison Gardens in Kensington, where he died very suddenly in December 1948, having been examining at the Royal College of Music the day before with no sign of anything wrong.