Early Life
Morris was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, the son of a postmaster. He learned to play the violin as a child and toured the valleys of South Wales, performing with his cello-playing father. Morris attended Hatherleigh School, Newport and worked as a solicitor's clerk, a timekeeper on a building site, a salesman and managing a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) farm in Wiltshire for thirteen years,.
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