Cavendish Morton

Cavendish Morton (17 February 1911 – 30 January 2015) was a British painter and illustrator, a member of the Norwich Twenty Group. A painter in oils and watercolour, he concentrated on marine scenes and landscapes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and was a member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil and Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. The family settled at Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight, where the two boys were home-schooled, with an emphasis on the arts.

During the Second World War Cavendish worked in the aircraft industry. In 1946 he married the musician Margaret Rosemary Elisabeth Britten (1919-2000) on the Isle of Wight. They moved to Suffolk and he taught at Old Hall School, Hethersett in Norfolk, between 1957 and 1967. They later lived at Eye in Suffolk where Morton was art therapist at Hartismere Hospital. He twice became Eye town mayor.

Concord and Cavendish produced a number of artworks together.