Alfred Morrison
1821–97
Autograph and art collector. Studied at Edinburgh University, 1836–9, and Trinity College, Cambridge, 1839–40. Joined his father in Morrison, Sons & Co. from 1841 until it was wound up in the 1850s. Inherited the Fonthill estate near Hindon, Wiltshire, in 1857. Became a collector of objets d’art and formed large collections of engraved portraits, historical autographs, and gems.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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