Sir Clive Morrison-Bell, 1st Baronet

Sir Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell, 1st Baronet (19 April 1871 – 16 April 1956), known as Clive Morrison-Bell, was a British soldier and Conservative Party parliamentarian.

Biography Arthur was the son of Sir Charles Morrison-Bell, 1st Baronet and Louisa Maria Dawes.

He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned in the Scots Guards in 1890. He served in the Boer War. In 1905, his father was created a Baronet. That same year the family assumed by Royal licence the additional surname and arms of Morrison in 1905, for Charles' mother, Mary Wilhelmina Morrison, the daughter and heiress of Royal Navy officer John Morrison.

Arthur was promoted Major in 1908, and retired from the army the same year.

Personal life

In 1912 Morrison-Bell married Hon. Lilah Katherine Julia Wingfield, daughter of Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt. They had two daughters, Shelagh and Patricia, with a third daughter dying in infancy. Shelagh married Sir Ralph Abercromby Campbell, Chief Justice of the Bahamas, in 1968. coronet = crest = 1st, A falcon close Proper belled and jessed Or, holding in the beak a bell Argent (Bell); 2nd, In front of a Moor's head couped at the shoulders as in the arms, three roses Gules (Morrison). motto = Perseverantia (Perseverance) supporters =