Edward Ellis Morris (1843-1902) was an educationist and miscellaneous writer. He was educated at Rugby School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated B. A. with final honours in classics, law and modern history in 1866. He was an assistant master at St. Peter"s College, Radley, and at Haileybury, and in 1871 became headmaster of the Bedfordshire middle class public school. From 1875 to 1883 he was headmaster of the Melbourne Church of England grammar school which made steady progress under his care. In 1883 he was elected to the chair of English, French and German languages and literature at the University of Melbourne. The Melbourne Shakespeare Society, for many years the most flourishing literary society in Victoria, was also founded on his suggestion, and he took the greatest interest in the Melbourne public library of which he was appointed a trustee in 1879. He became vice-president of the trustees in 1896. His Memoirs of George Higinbotham was published in 1895, and in 1898 appeared his most important work, his painstaking and valuable Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages.