E. J. C. Morton

Who was E. J. C. Morton?

Edward John Chalmers Morton, known as E. J. C. Morton, was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for Devonport from 1892 until his death.

Morton was the son of John Chalmers Morton, and was educated at Harrow School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he won a scholarship in 1879 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1880. He was called to the bar in 1885 at the Inner Temple, and practised on the North Eastern Circuit.

He was elected for Devonport at the 1892 general election, re-elected in 1895 and in 1900, and died in office in 1902, aged 46.

He was listed in 1892 and in 1901 as secretary of the Home Rule Union.