Walter Morrison.

About Walter Morrison

Walter Morrison was an English Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician, businessman and philanthropist who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1861 and 1900. A younger son of the merchant and financier James Morrison, reputedly the richest commoner of the nineteenth century, he inherited a large fortune and the Malham Tarn estate in Yorkshire. In Parliament he was associated with proportional representation and the reform of parliamentary representation, the co-operative movement, improved working-class housing, women's suffrage, and the separation of education from religious tests. He was for many years the honorary treasurer and principal benefactor of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), and was among the founding trustees of the Savile Club. His obituary in The Times described him as a man of simple tastes with "an acute sense of the responsibilities of wealth".