Sir George Lockwood Morris, 8th Baronet (29 January 1859 - 23 November 1947) was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 industrialist and iron founder. As a youth he was also notable as an international rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 forward who won five caps for Wales

Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...

. He played club rugby for Swansea

Swansea RFC

Swansea Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team which plays in the Welsh Premier Division. Its home ground is St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea. The team is sometimes known as The Whites because of the primary colour of the team strip...

 captaining the club through two seasons and was the first Swansea player to represent Wales.

Morris was the great-grandson in a junior branch of the family of Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet

Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet

Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet was a Welsh industrialist. He was the second son of Robert Morris, a Shropshire entrepreneur who came to Swansea in 1724 to supervise the Llangyfelach Copper Works, founded in 1717...

, the founder of Morriston

Morriston

Morriston is a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales and falls within the Morriston ward. Morriston is sometimes referred to as a distinct town , however Morriston never had a town charter, and is now part of the continuous urban area around Swansea, the centre of which lies three...

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Rugby career

Morris joined Swansea in 1878 and in the 1881/82 season was awarded the captaincy of the Senior XV team, an honour he would hold for the next season. On January 28, 1882 Morris was selected to represent Wales in the countries first rugby match against Ireland

1881-82 Home Nations rugby union matches

The 1881-82 Home Nations rugby union matches are a series of international friendlies held between the England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales national rugby union teams. This was the last season before the introduction of the Home Nations Championship and was the last time the teams involved faced...

. Under the captaincy of Charles Lewis

Charles Lewis (rugby player)

Charles Prytherch Lewis was a Welsh international rugby union player, who won five caps between 1882 and 1884.-Life:...

, Wales won the game two goals and two tries to nil. Morris was selected for the next four Welsh matches including the very first rugby international played in Wales, at St. Helen's in 1883. His final game was in the 1884 Home Nations Championship

1884 Home Nations Championship

The 1884 Home Nations Championship was the second series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 5 January and 12 April 1884...

, in a game played at Rodney Parade

Rodney Parade

Rodney Parade is a stadium in the city of Newport, south Wales. Located on the east bank of the River Usk in Newport city centre it is primarily used for rugby matches and is the home ground of Newport RFC and the Newport Gwent Dragons regional team.-History:...

 against Scotland. Wales lost the game by a drop goal and a try

Try

A try is the major way of scoring points in rugby league and rugby union football. A try is scored by grounding the ball in the opposition's in-goal area...

 to nil. Morris and fellow Swansea team-mate Fred Andrews

Fred Andrews

Fred Andrews was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Swansea Rugby Football Club....

 were both replaced from the pack, with Morris' place going to Cardiff's

Cardiff RFC

Cardiff Rugby Football Club is a rugby union football club based in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. The club was founded in 1876 and played their first few matches at Sophia Gardens, but soon relocated to Cardiff Arms Park where they have been based ever since...

 John Hinton

John Hinton (rugby player)

John Thomas Hinton was an Indian-born international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cardiff Rugby Football Club and international rugby for Wales...

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Personal life

Morris married Wilhelmina Cory of the Cory family

Cory Baronets

There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Cory, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2007....

 at Swansea in 1889. They lived at Sketty

Sketty

Sketty is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community is coterminous with the electoral ward....

 and had two children, Cedric

Cedric Morris

Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea but worked mainly in East Anglia...

 who became a noted painter and plantsman, and Nancy. In 1947 at the age of 88 Morris inherited the baronetcy

Morris Baronets

There have been four Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Morris, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.The Morris Baronetcy, of Clasemont in the County of Glamorgan, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 12 May 1806 for the Welsh copper and coal magnate John Morris...

from a distant cousin, three months before his death.