[1] Morris was born in Penrhos Lugwy, Anglesey,[2] one of four notable brothers whose surviving correspondence is a valuable record of the time.
[1] By 1728 he was well known in the London Welsh community, and was a steward at the annual St David's Day dinner of the "Society of Antient [sic] Britons".
[5] In 1734 Richard got into difficulty after standing surety for a friend who went bankrupt; as a result he spent some time in the King's Bench Prison.
[1] In the 1760s he is recorded as selling books from his place of work,[6] on behalf of Thomas Pennant, who shared his profits with the Welsh charity school in Clerkenwell, London.
[1] While working at the Navy Office, Morris became close friends with fellow clerk Wil(l)iam Parry, who was also from Anglesey and would become secretary to the Cymmrodorion Society in 1755.
[1] After Elizabeth's death in 1772, Richard Morris married for a fourth time, to a Stepney widow named Mary Major.
[1] These were issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in answer to the appeal of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror, Carmarthenshire, for a supply of bibles for his travelling free schools.
[1] Following his death, the Society of Cymmdodorion offered a silver medal for the best elegy on its late President; the contest has been as a forerunner of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.