Due to work reasons, he moved to Barcelona in 1889 to run two tram companies, becoming one of the most important figures in the Catalan capital.

[1][4] In 1861, at the age of 19, Morris was sentenced to 6 months of hard labor for theft, and later that same year, he went to the Far East and participated in the defense of Shanghai and Kahding during the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864).

[2] He was responsible for the electrification of trams in 1889 (to date animal traction), a measure that was initially very controversial with many Barcelona residents considering it "diabolical" and potentially deadly while the press did not spare cruel criticism either,[1] going as far as accusing him of collusion with the municipal government.

[3] When he got tired, he would take away their coats and jackets, and with them and his clothes, he made two piles that marked the limits of the goal, hence becoming goalkeeper, so he could teach his sons how to shoot.

[2][5] They played their first cricket matches in a field near the Hippodrome of Can Tunis, which were disputed between the club's members and on some occasions against British sailors who docked in the port of Barcelona, with the earliest example of this dating back to 28 August 1891.

[5] Together with his youngest son, Miguel, the three of them appeared in what is regarded to be the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain, which depicts these two sides before the match on 12 March.

[3] In an interview that his youngest son Miguel gave on 7 December 1948, he stated that "fills me with satisfaction, is to see how from those careers my father pursued after the ball at Casa Antúnez has led to what football is and means today in Barcelona and Spain".

[1] In 1905, Morris appeared at the auction for the concession of the construction of the Gran Vía in Madrid, as a representative of the company Hughes & Sterling of Liverpool and London, associated with the Sociedad Miró Trepat y Cia of Barcelona,[2] a Catalan family closely linked to Spanish football, especially through José María Miró, a president of Español and Sevilla FC).