Walter Augustus Ormsby Morson

MORSON, WALTER AUGUSTUS ORMSBY, lawyer and officeholder; b. 24 December 1851 in Hamilton, Prince Edward Island, son of Richard Willock Morson and Elizabeth Codie; m. 14 October 1891 May Elizabeth DesBrisay, and they had three children, Arthur, Clifford, and Walter; Anglican; d. 9 September 1921. Morson, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election held 9 December 1902 for 3rd Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1904 and 1908. He was defeated in the general election of 1900. In 1910 he resigned from the Legislature to accept the office of Deputy Prothonotary of the Supreme Court. Morson received his early education in Hamilton. He studied law under Chief Justice W. W. Sullivan*, and was admitted to the Bar in 1877. Morson became a junior partner in the firm Sullivan, McLean and Morson in the same year. In 1879 he formed a partnership with Judge Neil McLeod* in Summerside under the name McLeod, Morson and McQuarrie, which lasted until 1903. At that time, he began a new partnership with Charles Gavan Duffy*, under the name Morson and Duffy. During his legal career he served as Prothonotary and Clerk of the Crown. Morson was a member of the board of trustees of the Prince Edward Island Hospital for many years. He also served on the branch of trustees of St. Peter's Cathedral. Morson was a member of the Masonic Order. In his early years, he was in the military, where he achieved the rank of Major. Walter Morson died 9 September 1921. May Morson, the daughter of Theophilus and Dorcas DesBrisay, died 8 January 1928.