Sir Henry Morris, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Morris, 1st Baronet FRCS (7 January 1844 – 14 June 1926) was a British medical doctor and surgeon, president of the Royal Society of Medicine and the author and editor of significant works on anatomy. He was also known for his work in the field of cancer.

Early career Morris was the son of William Morris, surgeon from Petworth, Sussex. After his education at Epsom College and University College, London (BA 1863, MA 1870), he entered Guy's Hospital where, after graduating M.B., he became first a house surgeon and then the Resident Medical Officer. In 1870 he was appointed Surgical Registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, in 1871 Assistant Surgeon and Surgeon to the Out-Patient Department and from 1872 to 1881 Lecturer in Anatomy. From 1879 to 1889 he was Consulting Surgeon to the hospital.

Publications in anatomy Parts of the Human Body: Posterior and Anterior View from the 1933 edition of Morris' A Treatise on Human Anatomy, the original 1893 edition of which he contributed to and edited. Morris's time as lecturer in Anatomy led to some of his most distinguished publications, the first of which was The Anatomy of the Joints of Man (8 volumes, 43 plates, 1879; 8th American edition, Philadelphia, 1925). Morris supported Sir William Osler in the founding of The History of Medicine Society at The Royal Society of Medicine, London in 1912.

Morris married a Russian dancer but, as she predeceased him having no children, the baronetcy became extinct upon his death in 1926.