Sir Christopher Jeremy Morse

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(10 December 1928 – 4 February 2016) was an English banker,

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and

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who was

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of the

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from 1989 to 2003, and was chairman of

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Early life and education

Morse was born in 1928, only son (he had a younger sister) of Francis John Morse, of Lenwade House, Norwich, Norfolk, and his wife, Kinbarra, daughter of barrister Edward Armfield-Marrow. Francis John Morse- second son of Sir George Henry Morse, a brewer and

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from 1922 to 1923- was from a junior branch of the landed gentry Morse family of Lound, Suffolk. Morse was educated at

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, and

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Career

A career banker, Morse began with Williams and Glyn's Bank and went on to be chairman of

between 1977 and 1993. He served on the Board of the Bank of England as an executive director from 1965 to 1972, and as a non-executive from 1993 to 1997. He was also the first Chairman of the International Monetary Fund's Committee of Twenty (C20). In the

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, he was appointed

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(KCMG) "for services to the reform of the international monetary system". He had a keen interest in

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and was a skilful writer of clues. His record of success in the clue-writing competitions of Ximenes and

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was such that Azed's December 2008 Competition puzzle was dedicated to the occasion of his eightieth birthday. He had puzzles published under the pseudonym "Esrom" (his surname in reverse). In addition to crosswords, Morse had an interest in other types of word puzzles, and was a frequent contributor to '' Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics''. He was also a chess writer and wrote a book called ''Chess Problems: Tasks and Records''.

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's fictional detective,

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, was named after him. In 2006 Morse was awarded the title of World Federation for Chess Composition Honorary Master. He was an honorary fellow of

, and of

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. He died on 4 February 2016 at the age of 87.

Personal life

In 1955, he married Belinda Marianne, daughter of Lt-Colonel Robert Breynton Yarnton Mills, OBE, MC, of the landed gentry Mills family of Sudgrove; they had three sons and two daughters (one of whom died young). Lady Morse died in 2017.BELINDA MARIANNE (MILLS) MORSE
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