Stanley Morison - Later Career

Later Career

In 1960 Morison was elected a Royal Designer for Industry. He was a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1961 until his death in 1967 in London. He was offered a knighthood in 1953 and the CBE in 1962, but declined both.

He died on 11 October 1967.

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