Valentine Morris (27 October 1727 – 26 August 1789) was a British landowner and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Saint Vincent from 1772 to 1779.

Morris added to the magnificent splendour of the estate and its setting, by landscaping the parkland, with the help of Richard Owen Cambridge,[2] in the fashionable style of Capability Brown.

At a time when tourism in the Wye valley was starting to become popular, Piercefield was developed into a park of national reputation, as one of the earliest examples of Picturesque landscaping.

A contested election was highly unusual at the time, and the Morgans attacked Morris as an outsider, a Creole, and a slave owner.

[1] For his part, Morris appealed to the "honest unbiassed men" of Monmouthshire to "shake off all shackles, assert your independency, and once in your life have courage to dare elect the man of your choice".

[1] According to an 1801 memoir of Morris by William Coxe, while there he "laboured with so much zeal and activity in promoting the cultivation of the island, that he almost made of it another Piercefield."