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Legge married twice, first to Mary Isabella Morison ( 1816 – 1852 ) and after she died to a widow, Hannah Mary Willetts ( d 1881, née Johnstone ).
* Robert Morison, Scottish botanist ( died 1683 )
* January 1-John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario ( died 1929 )
Morison was fatally injured by the pole of a carriage as he was crossing the street on 9 November 1683 and died the following day at his house in Green Street, Leicester-fields.
Morison died in February 2010.
Morison died 1840.
Morison died in London.

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One of Abercrombie's early projects during this period was to advise Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, on the reformed spelling system he was devising for the publication of his collected essays ( later published in seven volumes by Oxford University Press, with the help of the distinguished typographer Stanley Morison, who designed the new letters ).
Professor Dennis Showalter, the 2005 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Military History, is an expert on World War II, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy, reviewer for the History Book Club, and author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, the 1992 winner of the American Historical Association's Paul Birdsall Prize.
Samuel Loring Morison was a government security analyst who worked on the side for Jane's, a British military and defense publisher.
Morison told investigators that he sent classified satellite photographs to Jane's because the " public should be aware of what was going on on the other side ", meaning that the Soviets ' new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would transform the USSR's military capabilities.
On October 17, 1985, Morison was convicted in Federal Court on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of government property.
Following a 1998 appeal for a pardon on the part of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, President Bill Clinton pardoned Morison on January 20, 2001, the last day of his presidency, despite the CIA's opposition to the pardon.
( Although Morison was responsible for the textbook's controversial section on slavery and references to the slave as " Sambo ," and although Commager was the junior member of the writing team when the book was first published and always deferred to Morison's greater age and academic stature, Commager has not been spared from charges of racism in this matter.
August A. Meier, a young professor at a black southern college, Tougaloo College, and a former student of Commager, corresponded with Morison and Commager during this period of time in an effort to get them to change their textbook and reported that Morison " just didn't get it " and didn't understand the negative effects that the Sambo stereotype was having on young impressionable students.
In the 1930s, Morison wrote a series of books on the history of Harvard University and New England, including Builders of the Bay Colony: A Gallery of Our Intellectual Ancestors ( 1930 ), The Founding of Harvard College ( 1935 ), Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century ( 1936 ), Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636 – 1936 ( 1936 ), and The Puritan Pronaos ( 1936 ).
In 1940, Morison published Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century, a book that presaged his succeeding publications on the great explorer, Christopher Columbus.
Morison went on to the rank of Captain on December 15, 1945.
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Morison, already convinced of the value of personal involvement as a result of sailing experience while writing his biography of Christopher Columbus, wrote to President Roosevelt suggesting the preparation of an official history of the Navy in the war, and volunteering for the task.
He came from Scotland with his family in 1852, on the Hudson's Bay Company ship Norman Morison, to establish a farm for the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company.
By the 1970s the artwork on Gottlieb games was almost always by Gordon Morison, and the company had begun designing their games with longer 3-inch flippers, now the industry standard.
As decided by the school board on October 26, 2009, Morison Public School was closed down and moved into Mackenzie High School for the 2011-2012 school year in favour of making Mackenzie a JK-12 " education centre.
In 1985, Morison was convicted in Federal Court on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of government property, and was sentenced to two years in prison.
When Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard history professor Samuel Eliot Morison was commissioned by President Roosevelt to prepare the fifteen-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, he relied not only on his own combat experience, but also on those records assembled in Knox's archives.
: MIT Press, 1966 ), with a foreword by the historian of technology Elting E. Morison who had been on the faculty of MIT as a professor of humanities in the Sloan School of Industrial Management from 1946 to 1966.

Morison and May
Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve ( July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976 ) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable.
On May 5, 1942, Morison was commissioned Lieutenant Commander, US Naval Reserve, and was called at once to active duty.
Both President Roosevelt and the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox agreed, and in May 1942 Morison was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, and assigned a staff of assistants, with permission to go anywhere and to see all official records.
Stanley Morison ( 6 May 1889 – 11 October 1967 ) was an English typographer, designer and historian of printing.
* Samuel Eliot Morison History of United States Naval operations in World War II: Vol X The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945 ( 1956 ) ISBN ( none )

Morison and 1976
* Samuel Eliot Morison ( 1887 – 1976 ), American historian
Their daughter, Emily Marshall Eliot Morison, was the mother of noted historian Samuel Eliot Morison ( 1887 – 1976 ).

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With Robert Morison ’ s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.
The Foundation of Perth 1829 by George Pitt Morison is an historically accurate reconstruction of the official ceremony by which Perth was founded.
* Samuel Eliot Morison, Christopher Columbus, Mariner, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1955.
* Morison, Elting E., John Morton Blum, and Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., eds., The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, 8 vols.
Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.
Morison and a number of other historians claim that Marshall's decision was an indirect cause of the Second World War.
Samuel Eliot Morison ( 1971 ) suggested the southern part of Newfoundland ; Erik Wahlgren ( 1986 ) Miramichi Bay in New Brunswick ; and Icelandic climate specialist Pall Bergthorsson ( 1997 ) proposed New York City.
Directed by John C. Wilson with choreography by Hanya Holm, it starred Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison.
It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated.
The font was supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times.
Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space.
Traditionally the inventor was thought to be Stanley Morison, and it made its debut in the Oct. 3, 1943 issue of The Times of London.
Shortly thereafter, the Emperor's infant son falls ill and, under instructions from the Empress ( Patricia Morison ), the child's nanny obtains a bottle of the water.
In the same year he met the typographer Stanley Morison.
In 1925 he designed the Perpetua typeface, with the uppercase based upon monumental Roman inscriptions, for Morison, who was working for the Monotype Corporation.
b. The Founding of Harvard College, Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1935, pages 91 and 396.
Amongst his apprentices was Edmund Morison Wimperis, who became a notable watercolour landscape painter.
The historian S. E. Morison believed Hamilton, in general, wished to enforce the excise law " more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue ..."
* Samuel Eliot Morison.
Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a " dame school ", some home schooling under the " capable, slightly impatient, somewhat sporadic " instruction of Albion Bradbury ( her stepfather ), a brief spell at the district school, a year as a boarder at the Gorham Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months ' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the class of 1873.

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