John Carnac Morris ( 1798 - 1858 )

Birth: Ootacamund [Udagamandalam], Tamil Nadu, India, Asia (16 October 1798) Death: Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom (02 August 1858) Burial: St Heliers, Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom Profession: Sailor; civil servant; colonial administrator Research field: Language; Telugu Education: East India Company College at Haileybury (1815-1818) Career: Entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman, and saw active service during the last two years of the Napoleonic Wars (1814-1815); Madras [Chennai] civil service (1818-1846); served in Masulipatam (1821) and Coimbore; paralysis of both legs (1823); from when he served in the Madras secretariat; Telugu translator (1832-1846); Registrar of the Courts of Sudder and of Sudder Foujdarry Adawlut [Adalat]; Trustee of the Fort St George Civil Fund; Member of the College of Fort St George and for Public Instruction; Accountant General for Madras (1839); founder of the Madras government bank (1834), first Secretary and Tresurer (1834), Superintendent (1835); returned to England (1846); established a company to run steamers between Milford Haven and Australia (1848); managing director of the London and Eastern Banking Company (c1848 -1855), Chairman (1855-1858) when the bank was ruined; retired to Jersey Memberships: Madras Literary Society, Freemason Membership: Fellow Election Date: 10/03/1831.