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Morson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Clifford Morson (1881–1975), British surgeon *Gary Saul Morson (born 1948), American literary critic *Georgiana Morson, British social reformer *Walter Morson (1851–1921), Canadian lawyer and politician See also *Lorson *Morton (surname) Morton is an English, Irish, and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: __TOC__ A–K *Adam Morton (1945–2020), Canadian philosopher *Alan Morton (other), several people *Alicia Morton (born 1987), American actress *A ...
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Gary Saul Morson
Gary Saul Morson (born 1948) is an American literary critic and Slavist. He is particularly known for his scholarly work on the great Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. Prior to this he was chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania for many years. Academic career Gary Saul Morson was born in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science. After the high school, Gary Morson was accepted to Yale University. Initially, Morson was interested in physics. However, he ended up graduating with a degree in Russian. “What I liked about physics is that it asked the ultimate questions. I loved how when you look at the world, all this amazing complexity had these very simple rules behind it. Now I believe the opposite — the argument of my favorite writer, Tolstoy, is that ...
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Georgiana Morson
Georgiana Morson was a British social reformer. She served as a matron for Urania Cottage, a house for what were then called "fallen women" (prostitutes) founded by Charles Dickens and Angela Burdett-Coutts, as well as the Foundling Hospital during the mid-nineteenth century. Personal life Georgiana Collin was born in Merton. She married James Morson, a doctor for St George's Hospital, in 1838. Shortly after their marriage, James Morson was appointed as Chief Medical Officer for the Brazilian National Mining Association. He died in 1848, leaving Georgiana with three children to provide for by her own efforts. In 1854, Morson would resign from her post as matron of Urania Cottage in order to marry George Wade Harrison, a printer and bookseller, and they settled in Sevenoaks. Urania Cottage On 26 May 1846, Dickens wrote Burdett-Coutts a lengthy letter stating his desire to open an asylum for girls and women working in London's streets as prostitutes. The letter included pl ...
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Walter Morson
Walter Augustus Ormsby Morson (December 24, 1851 – September 9, 1921) was a lawyer and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada. He represented 3rd Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1902 to 1908 as a Conservative member. He was born in Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, the son of Richard Willock Morson, who was born in the West Indies, and Elizabeth Cody. Morson studied law with William Wilfred Sullivan in Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ... and was called to the bar in 1877, becoming a junior partner in the firm of Sullivan, McLeod and Morson. In 1891, he married May Elizabeth Desbrisay. Morson served in the local militia, reaching the rank of major. He was prothonotary for the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, t ...
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Albert Clifford Morson
Albert Clifford Morson OBE, (1881 - 5 January 1975), was a surgeon who pioneered radiotherapy treatments for urinary tract cancers. After the First World War, he was appointed assistant surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for stone, with Peter Freyer, and became consultant in 1923. In 1933, he was elected president of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and, in 1947, he became president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). Zorgniotti, Adrian W.br>Chapter 7. Suprapubic prostatectomy: An Anglo-Indian success storyin ''Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy'' edited by Frank Hinman. Springer-Verlag, New York (1983), pp. 51- 54. . In 1954 he was awarded the BAUS's St Peter's Medal. Selected publications *''St. Peter's Hospital for Stone, 1860-1960''. Edinburgh & London, 1960"Sir Peter Freyer and Sir John Thomson Walker".Editorial in the ''Postgraduate Medical Journal The ''Postgraduate Medical Journal'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was ...
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Lorson
Lorson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Gerhard Lorson (1919–1992), German chess master *Laura Lorson, American radio producer * Mary Lorson, American singer-songwriter See also *Larson (surname) *Korson Korson is a surname. notable people with the surname include: * Adam Korson, Canadian actor * George Korson (1899–1967), American folklorist, journalist and historian See also * Lorson * Morson {{Short pages monitor [Baidu]