This photograph shows Arthur Morris, William Morris’s fourth brother, towards the end of his life. Before he retired in 1890, Arthur was a Colonel in the 60th Foot, the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He had fought in the Zulu War in South Africa and during the early 1880s was stationed with a battalion in India. William Morris was directly opposed to the kind of imperialist expansionism that Arthur Morris represented, but was generally civil to him when they saw each other. In 1881 William Morris visited him ‘to see the last of Arthur before he goes to India’ and it is likely Arthur was one of the two brothers who were recorded as attending Morris’s funeral in 1896.
