About Harold Morton
Lived 1886 – 1955 (aged 68). Harold Morton was a rugby union player.
Harold James Storrs Morton (31 January 1886 – 3 January 1955) was an English international rugby union player and medical doctor.
Early life and education The son of a reverend, Harold James Storrs Morton was born on 31 January 1886.
He attended Uppingham School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Rugby Morton, a front row forward, played for Cambridge University in the 1908 Varsity Match. He was capped four times for England, including two matches in their championship-winning 1910 Five Nations campaign.
Career A doctor by profession, Morton served in France during World War I as an officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Morton was an assistant medical officer at King Edward VII Sanatorium after the war, then had practices in Bridlington and St. John's Wood, before retiring to Brinkley, Cambridgeshire.
He died on 3 January 1955.
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