Sir Christopher Jeremy Morse (* December 10 1928[1]), known as Sir Jeremy Morse, was Chancellor of the University of Bristol between 1989 and 2003 before being succeeded by the Baroness Hale of Richmond[2] and was chairman of Lloyds Bank[3]. Son of Francis John Morse and his wife Kinbarra (née Armfield-Marrow), he was educated at West Downs School, Winchester College, and New College, Oxford. A career banker, he began with Williams and Glyn's Bank and went on to be chairman of Lloyds Bank between 1977 and 1993.. Morse also is a chess writer and wrote a book called Chess Problems: Tasks and Records. In 1955, he married Belinda Marianne, daughter of Lt-Colonel R. B. Y. Mills, and they had three sons and two daughters (one of whom died young).
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| Preceded by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chancellor of the University of Bristol 1989–2003 |
Succeeded by The Baroness Hale of Richmond |
