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J H Morris
Hoylake/Castletown
James Hunter Morris was born in Hoylake in 1894 of impeccable golfing parentage, his father Jack, a nephew of Old Tom Morris and his mother, Margaret, a cousin of the great amateur John Ball. He was named James Hunter after the husband of Old Tom’s daughter Elizabeth, who came originally from Prestwick where James Hunter's cousin, Charles, succeeded Old Tom as professional.

He started his working life as a clerk for a corn merchant but switched to clubmaking by 1912. That same year he sailed to Montreal with his sister en route to visit their eldest brother Tom who was a golf instructor in Kalamazoo, MI. By the time of James’s return six months later, the passenger manifest described him as a golf professional.

James took up the position of professional at the popular holiday links at Castletown, Isle of Man. He enlisted in the King’s Liverpool Regiment in December 1915 and served with the 2nd/6th battalion (Liverpool Rifles). He was killed on 15 July 1917 when a shell struck his gun pit.

He is buried in VIII. C. 29 Cité Bonjean MilitaryCemetery, Armentières, France.

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