Philip Edward Morrell, was a British

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 statesman

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 and Liberal

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 politician

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He was the son of Frederic Morrell, solicitor, of Black Hall, Oxford, by his wife Harriette Anne, daughter of the President of St John's College, Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

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 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the Rev. Philip Wynter

Philip Wynter

Philip Wynter was an English clergyman and academic.Wynter was the President of St John's College, Oxford from 1828 to 1871, and the editor of the works of Joseph Hall....

 DD. The Morrell family had made its fortune as brewers of beer, and Philip Morrell's grandfather was a trustee of the family brewery.

Philip Morrell was educated at Eton

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 and Balliol College, Oxford. He married Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck

Lady Ottoline Morrell

The Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H...

 in 1894.

He served as Liberal MP for Henley

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 from 1906 to 1910 and Burnley

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 from 1910 to 1918.

He opposed Britain's entry into the First World War and with Charles Trevelyan

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet

Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet PC , the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, was a British Liberal, and later Labour, politician and landowner...

 and others formed the Union of Democratic Control

Union of Democratic Control

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 to oppose military influence in government.

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