After a local primary school Morris attended, from nine years old, the choir school of Christ Church Cathedral
in Oxford. This very small, specialist community provided an adequate general education
Mary's brother Oliver, two years her senior, became a clergyman and held the posts of chaplain, then senior chaplain and chanter at Christ Church Cathedral
, Oxford. Other brothers died in infancy.
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