Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin

Martin Henry FitzPatrick Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, PC(Ire) (11 August 1867 – 22 July 1927) was an Irish Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).

Background and education

Morris was the eldest son of Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was secretary of the University Philosophical Society. He later became a barrister.

Political career
Lord Killanin (centre) as director of the Liffey Power Syndicate inspecting boring operations at Poulaphouca, Co. Wicklow, as part of a hydro-electric development initiative, 18 August 1923

Morris was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway for 1897.[1]

He was elected to the House of Commons for Galway Borough in 1900, a seat he held until the following year when he succeeded his father as second Baron Killanin and entered the House of Lords.

Lord Killanin was also a member of the Senate of the Royal University of Ireland from 1904 to 1909, Governor of University College, Galway from 1909 to 1922, and served as Lord Lieutenant of County Galway between 1918 and 1922. He was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland in the 1920 New Year Honours following his chairmanship of the Committee on Irish Primary Education.[2]

Personal life

Lord Killanin died in July 1927, aged 59. He never married and was succeeded by his nephew Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin.

Arms
Coat of arms of Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin
Crest
On a fasces Proper a lion’s head erased Argent gutté de sang.
Escutcheon
Ermine a fess indented Sable in base a lion rampant of the last armed and langued Gules.
Motto
Si Deus Nobiscum Quis Contra Nos [3]
gollark: OH NO
gollark: Until someone dredged them up again from the search logs.
gollark: See, if everyone stopped using them ever and they were erased from everyone's mind, they would be gone!
gollark: Suuuure you do.
gollark: And yet they mention them rather a lot.

See also

Footnotes
  1. Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
  2. "No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 2.
  3. Burke's Peerage. 1959.

References
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Pinkerton		 Member of Parliament for Galway Borough
1900 – 1901		 Succeeded by
Arthur Lynch
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Lord Clonbrock		 Lord Lieutenant of Galway
1918 – 1922		 Office abolished
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Michael Morris		 Baron Killanin
1901 – 1927		 Succeeded by
Michael Morris

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