Philip
Morrell, the son of Frederick Morrell and Harriet Wynter, was born
on 4th June 1870. After an education at Eton
and Balliol College, Oxford. Morrell became
a member of the firm of solicitors, Philpot and Morrell.
Morrell married Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck
in 1894. The couple organizing meetings at their home at Garsington
Manor for important political and literary figures. John
Middleton Murry, D. H. Lawrence,
Bertrand Russell, Aldous
Huxley, Leonard Woolf and Virginia
Woolf all became close friends.
In the 1906 General Election Morrell was
elected as the Liberal MP for Henley. He
was defeated in the January 1910 General Election
but won Burnley in December, 1910.
In 1914 Morrell was one of the Liberal
MPs who argued for Britain to keep out of a war with Germany. After
the outbreak of the First World War Morrell
joined with Charles Trevelyan, Edmund
Morel, Norman Angell and Ramsay
MacDonald to form the Union of Democratic
Control (UDC).
Morrell decided not to stand in the 1918 General
Election. Philip Morrell died on 5th February, 1943.
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