Education
At Bromsgrove School his love of natural history grew and he started a collection of birds and insects. He left school in 1828 and spent a year with a private tutor, and then enrolled at Worcester College Oxford. Here he read Classics and was awarded a BA in 1833. One of the subjects in which he chose to be examined, was Pliny's Natural History. During this period he met the entomologist James Duncan (1804-1861), author of British Butterflies. As a student Morris maintained his interest in natural history, and helped order the insect collection in the Ashmolean Museum.
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