Edward Morris (historian)
Edward Samuel Morris was a British art historian perhaps best known for his "masterly" French Art in Nineteenth Century Britain.
Early life
Edward Samuel Morris was born on 10 August 1940 in Bognor Regis, the son of Edward Cadman Morris, a British Navy officer, and Winifred Morris. He was educated at Rugby School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.In 1964, he gave up a well-paid city job to study a master's degree in art history at London's Courtauld Institute of Art, where he was taught by the novelist Anita Brookner and the spy Anthony Blunt.