William C. Morris is a town in
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the
Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area and is located in the
Hurlingham Partido
Hurlingham Partido is a partido of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is in the Greater Buenos Aires urban area.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 176,505 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Hurlingham, wh ...
.
Name
The town is named to honor Englishman
William Case Morris (16 February 1864 – 15 September 1932), Methodist, educator and founder of the first Methodist Chapel in Argentina. He arrived in Argentina as a ten-year-old youth with his widowed father, and eventually founded a series of children's shelters in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
. He returned to England shortly before his death.
Hogar el Alba biography
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Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Hurlingham Partido
Cities in Argentina
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