Sir Lewis Morris (1833-1907): poet + Sir George Tyler, Lord Mayor of London
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Page from album with cartoon of Sir Lewis Morris and a letter from him dated 15th Nov. 1891. On the reverse is a picture of Sir George Robert Tyler together with a signed letter from him on stationery from The Mansion House, London with an embossed coat of arms - image available on request. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER LISTINGS FOR A VARIETY OF AUTOGRAPHS. I AM HAPPY TO COMBINE POSTAGE. Sir Lewis Morris (23 January 1833 – 12 November 1907) was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Born in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales to Lewis Edward William Morris and Sophia Hughes, he first attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School there (1841-47).Then in 1847 he transferred to Cowbridge Grammar School on the appointment to it of the energetically reviving and academically gifted young headmaster, Hugo Harper. There "he gave promise of his future classical scholarship by writing a prize poem on Pompeii".In 1850 he was one of about thirty Cowbridge boys who followed Harper to Sherborne whither the latter was bound on a similar mission of rescuscitating a moribund school. Such "swarming" in the wake of a charismatic headmaster was typical of the period. Morris and Harper remained lifelong friends. He studied classics at Jesus College, Oxford, graduating in 1856: the first student in thirty years to obtain first-class honours in both
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