Personal Life
In January 1835 he married Anne Sanders, who was the second daughter of Charles Sanders of Bromsgrove, eventually raising a family of 3 sons and 6 daughters.
From all accounts Morris was irascible by nature, impatient with conservatism and imbued with the spirit of reform - this did not endear him to many people. He had deep-seated convictions on some matters: he was an anti-feminist, loathed fox hunting and any other destruction of wildlife, had an abiding abhorrence of evolution as expounded in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and a fervent dislike of Thomas Huxley whom he saw as an enthusiastic vivisectionist. He was an early advocate for conservation and was instrumental in founding the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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