Philip Morrell

Who was Philip Morrell?

Philip Edward Morrell, was a British statesman and Liberal politician.

He was the son of Frederic Morrell, solicitor, of Black Hall, Oxford, by his wife Harriette Anne, daughter of the President of St John's College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the Rev. Philip Wynter DD. The Morrell family had made its fortune as brewers of beer, and Philip Morrell's grandfather was a trustee of the family brewery.

Philip Morrell was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He married in London, on 8 February 1902, Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck, sister of the Duke of Portland.

He served as Liberal MP for Henley from 1906 to 1910 and Burnley from 1910 to 1918.