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- Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, (4 December 1930 – 30 April 2001), was a British poet, critic and professor of literature. He became the Labour Party's deputy chief whip and education spokesman in the House of Lords. Born and educated in Cardiff, Morris went on, after national service with the Welsh Regiment, to read English at Worcester College, Oxford. He stayed on at Oxford as a tutor in Old and Middle English while doing his doctorate on John Cleveland, the Cavalier poet. In 1955, he married Sandra James, and they had two children. His major promotion came in 1971 when he began his decade as professor of English literature at Sheffield University, in succession to William Empson. From 1964 to 1986, he was general editor of the New Mermaid dramatists, and from 1974 to 1982 of the New Arden Shakespeare. He also edited the poems of Cleveland and the plays of John Ford, while using his acquired administrative skills on the board of the National Portrait Gallery. These skills were fully tested when, in 1980, he was named principal of what was then St David's University College, the smallest and most endangered part of the University of Wales. Retaining a home in Derbyshire, he saw his Lampeter appointment as an opportunity to get back in touch with his roots. In addition to literary criticism such as his study of Harri Webb (1993) for the University of Wales Press in the "Writers of Wales" series, his publications included several poetry collections, including Tide-Race (1976), Dear Tokens (1987) and The Waters of Comfort (1998). His collected poems were published in the year of his death by Rare Books & Berry Ltd. In 1990, Morris was made a life peer with the title Baron Morris of Castle Morris, of St Dogmaels in the County of Dyfed, expanding his name – to distinguish it from an earlier Baron Morris – by adding "of Castle Morris", a small and largely insignificant hamlet between Fishguard and St David's and actually spelt Castlemorris. He justified his appointment to the unelected body by pointing out "Manchester United football team isn't chosen by popular vote". A brilliant and respected speech writer, his speeches in the house were sprinkled with quotations from Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Juvenal and Alexander Pope. When Morris reminded the Tories of the saying "Whom God wishes to destroy, he first sends mad," he used the original Latin. Morris never forgot his Welsh roots, and was a nationalist sympathiser. Whilst he never was a fluent speaker of the Welsh language, he fought for its legal status in the nation. Later in his political career, Morris was marginalised within the Labour Party for being too 'Old Labour' by supporters of the new party leader Tony Blair. Prior to Labour's 1997 election win, a fellow Labour politician, Bernard Donoughue, commented in his diary that Morris was among the academics who "have never operated on the national stage and are desperately keen to get there". Morris died aged 70 from leukaemia in 2001. (en)
- Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris (* 4. Dezember 1930, Cardiff; † 30. April 2001) war ein britischer Akademiker und Dichter. Brian Morris besuchte die Cardiff High School und studierte, nachdem er seinen Militärdienst abgeleistet hatte, am Worcester College der Universität Oxford Englisch. Nach seinem Abschluss 1954 blieb er zunächst als Lehrer an der Universität in Oxford, bevor er 1956 nach Stratford upon Avon an das wechselte. 1958 übernahm er eine Stelle an der Universität Reading, von wo er 1967 an die Universität York ging. 1971 übernahm er eine Professur für Englisch an der Universität Sheffield. Morris war zwar in Wales geboren worden, lernte aber erst später im Leben die walisische Sprache. Er begann bereits in seiner Militärdienstzeit Gedichte zu schreiben, seine Gedichte wurden aber zuerst in seiner Zeit an der Universität Sheffield veröffentlicht. In diesen Gedichten zeigte Morris sich als walisischer Nationalist. 1980 übernahm er die Leitung des St David’s University College in Lampeter, an dessen Aufwertung zur Universität von Wales in Lampeter er maßgeblich beteiligt war. 1990 wurde er zum Life Peer ernannt und vertrat die Labour Party im House of Lords. Er nahm den Titel eines Baron Morris of Castle Morris of St Dogmaels in the County of Dyfed zur Unterscheidung sowohl vom erblichen Adelstitel des Baron Morris, wie auch einer Reihe weiterer Life Peers an. Das sein Einsatz für die Labour Party nach deren Sieg in den Parlamentswahlen 1997 nicht gewürdigt wurde, enttäuschte ihn sehr. Bald danach wurde bei ihm Leukämie festgestellt, an der er 2001 verstarb. Brian Morris war seit 1955 verheiratet; das Ehepaar hatte einen Sohn und eine Tochter. (de)
- Brian Robert Morris, baron Morris de Castle Morris, (4 décembre 1930 - 30 avril 2001), est un poète, critique et professeur de littérature britannique . Il est le whip en chef adjoint du Parti travailliste et le porte-parole de l'éducation à la Chambre des lords . (fr)
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- Brian Robert Morris, baron Morris de Castle Morris, (4 décembre 1930 - 30 avril 2001), est un poète, critique et professeur de littérature britannique . Il est le whip en chef adjoint du Parti travailliste et le porte-parole de l'éducation à la Chambre des lords . (fr)
- Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, (4 December 1930 – 30 April 2001), was a British poet, critic and professor of literature. He became the Labour Party's deputy chief whip and education spokesman in the House of Lords. Born and educated in Cardiff, Morris went on, after national service with the Welsh Regiment, to read English at Worcester College, Oxford. He stayed on at Oxford as a tutor in Old and Middle English while doing his doctorate on John Cleveland, the Cavalier poet. In 1955, he married Sandra James, and they had two children. (en)
- Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris (* 4. Dezember 1930, Cardiff; † 30. April 2001) war ein britischer Akademiker und Dichter. Brian Morris besuchte die Cardiff High School und studierte, nachdem er seinen Militärdienst abgeleistet hatte, am Worcester College der Universität Oxford Englisch. Nach seinem Abschluss 1954 blieb er zunächst als Lehrer an der Universität in Oxford, bevor er 1956 nach Stratford upon Avon an das wechselte. 1958 übernahm er eine Stelle an der Universität Reading, von wo er 1967 an die Universität York ging. 1971 übernahm er eine Professur für Englisch an der Universität Sheffield. (de)
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