John Stanton Fleming Morrison, DFC with BAR

Born: 17th April 1892 in Deal, Kent

Died: 28th January 1961 in Farnham, Surrey

Married: (I) Elizabeth (II) Gwen Craddock Hartopp in 1938

Children: One daughter Mary

Address: The Lea Doomersfield, Basingstoke, Hants

Educated: Charterhouse School 1905 - 1911
Trinity College, Cambridge from 1912 - 1914 and then 1919 - 1920

Sport: Captained Public Schools Team v MCC (1911). Captained 1st XI's Cricket and Soccer and Schools Fives Pair

Trinity College, Cambridge (1912 - 1914 and 1919 - 1920): Studied history and law and graduated in 1919. Pre 1914 - 1918 Great War awarded blues in cricket and soccer (captaining both teams). Awarded golf blue in 1919 when a mature student also captained the team.

1914 - 1918 Great War:
Joined the Royal Flying Corps and won the DFC and Bar and Italian silver and bronze medals for valour flying stringbag bombers in Italy. Then joined the newly formed Royal Naval Air Service, promoted to Major. Reported to have been one of the first pilots to land a plane on an aircraft carrier.

Sporting Achievements:
1914 won the University Scratch Gold Medal with a round of 73
1914 scored 233 not out for Cambridge University v MCC
1920's played as an amateur for Sunderland football club
1920 amateur cap for England v Wales at Soccer
1920's played cricket as an amateur for Somerset and Northumberland
1921 playing for Gentlemen v Players scored 29 + 39 runs
1924 captained the Corinthians when they beat Blackburn football club in F.A. Cup 1st round proper 1 - 0. The only amateur side to do so
1928 won the Worplesdon Foursomes partnering Joyce Wethered
1929 won the Belgian Open Amateur Championship over 36 holes (NB in round one scored 50 - 29 = 79)
1930 selected to play for England v Ireland
1935 & 1936 won the Sunningdale Foursomes partnering Joyce Wethered
During the 1930's playing with Henry Longhurst for Charterhouse in the Halford Hewitt winning 31 out of their 32 matches
Committee member - Sunningdale Golf Club, Captain in 1933 and Captain of Royal Worlington in 1936

Morrison was blessed with a large frame and iron construction, Longhurst described him as massive, fit and fearless. He once won a beer drinking contest at the Munich Beer Fest and celebrated by ordering a pint of sherry, his favourite tipple.

After leaving Cambridge he became a golf architect and wrote golf articles on a regular basis. As a member of Sunningdale he became involved with Harry Shapland Colt in 1922, when Colt was designing and constructing the new course.

He joined the partnership in 1923 and in 1928 was appointed a Director of the newly formed company founded by Colt - Colt, Alison and Morrison Limited. He was allocated 100 of the 1,000 issued shares.

During his career, which spanned some 38 years, he designed or remodelled numerous courses in the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as assisting Colt. A selection of these courses is given below:

In Europe:
Chantaco St Jean de Luz and St Coud (yellow course) in France. Hamburg Falkenstein, Frankfurter, Hamburger Land & G.C. in Germany. Stockholm in Sweden and La Betulle GC (at Biella) & La Mandria GC (at Torino) in Italy.
In the United Kingdom:
Wentworth (Colt input), Prestbury (mainly Morrison), Mayland (Essex), St Mellon (South Wales), Truro and Princes 27 holes (50% Sir Guy Campbell).

1939 - 1945 War:
RAF - initially Wing Commander then Group Captain as Officer in charge of a training wing.

In 1945 Colt retires, in 1947 Alison leaves for South Africa, leaving Morrison to run the British end. In 1952 he becomes the Managing Director after Colt died in 1951 and Alison in 1952. He continues until 1961 when he dies bringing to an end the firm and an era.

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