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Sir George Henry Morse (27 May 1857 – 1 April 1931) was an English brewer, administrator and mountaineer. He was Lord Mayor of Norwich and later President of the Alpine Club. ==Life== Born in 1857, George Morse was the son of Charles Morse of Aylsham, Norfolk, a partner in the brewery of Steward, Patteson Fitch & Co., and a great grandson of John Morse, who had been Mayor of Norwich for 1781.〔Patrick T. R. Palgrave-Moore, ''The Mayors and Lord Mayors of Norwich, 1936-1974'' (1978), p. 35〕 Charles Morse was also an alpinist and had joined the Alpine Club in 1863.〔T. L. Kesteven, 'George Henry Morse' (obituary) in ''The Alpine Journal'', vol. 43 (1931), pp. 334-337〕 The son, George Morse, became a successful brewer and a Justice of the Peace in the city of Norwich.〔 In 1893, he married Annie, a daughter of Henry Pasteur, another magistrate, and they had two sons and one daughter.〔‘MORSE, Sir George Henry’, in ''Who Was Who'' (London: A. & C. Black); (online edition ) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 30 March 2014 (subscription site)〕 Morse had a younger brother, Arthur Francis Morse, who served in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and retired from the army as a Colonel.〔''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry'', vol. 2 (Burke's Peerage, 1969), p. 272〕 Morse was Mayor of Norwich for 1899, then Lord Mayor of Norwich for 1922–1923, after King Edward VII had elevated the title.〔 In the Birthday Honours list of 1923, gazetted on 29 June, he became a knight bachelor.〔''The London Gazette'' dated 29 June 1923〕 In 1927 Morse was a director of both principal Norwich Union companies, for Fire Insurance and Life Insurance.〔Thomas Skinner & Company, ''The Directory of Directors for 1927'' (1927), p. 1,119〕 By 1931 he had served as chairman of the first and president of the second.〔''The Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor'', vol. 92, issue 2 (Buckley Press, 1932), p. 1,532: "Sir George Henry Morse, of Thorpe St. Andrew, Norwich, late chairman of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society and lately president of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, left £152,816 (net £143,449)."〕 A Conservative in politics, Morse was a member of the Alpine Club, of which he was President between 1926 and 1929, and also of the Junior Carlton Club. At the time of his death in 1931 his address was given in ''Who's Who'' as "Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich".〔 He left a substantial estate worth £143,449 after liabilities and duties.〔 His obituary in ''The Alpine Journal'' said of him 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Henry Morse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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