Harold Morton | |
Full Name: | Harold James Storrs Morton |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1886 |
Birth Place: | Sheffield, England |
Death Place: | Whitechapel, England |
Occupation: | Doctor |
School: | Uppingham School |
University: | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1909–10 |
Repcaps1: | 4 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Harold James Storrs Morton (31 January 1886 – 3 January 1955) was an English international rugby union player.
The son of a reverend, Morton attended Uppingham School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[1]
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.[2]
A doctor by profession, Morton served in France during World War I as an officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps.[3]
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.[3]