1. Sir Christopher Jeremy Morse KCMG was an English banker, cruciverbalist and chess composer who was Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1989 to 2003, and was chairman of Lloyds Bank.
13 Facts About Jeremy Morse
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Jeremy Morse was educated at West Downs School and Winchester College.
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Jeremy Morse went on to attend New College, Oxford, after completing two years of national service with the 60th Rifles in Mandatory Palestine.
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Jeremy Morse 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.
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Jeremy Morse was the first Chairman of the International Monetary Fund's Committee of Twenty.
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Jeremy Morse had a keen interest in cryptic crosswords and was a skilful writer of clues.
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Jeremy Morse had puzzles published under the pseudonym "Esrom".
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Jeremy Morse was a chess writer and wrote a book called Chess Problems: Tasks and Records.
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Colin Dexter's fictional detective, Inspector Jeremy Morse, was named after him.
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In 2006 Jeremy Morse was awarded the title of World Federation for Chess Composition Honorary Master.
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Jeremy Morse was an honorary fellow of New College, Oxford, and of All Souls College, Oxford.
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In 1955, Jeremy Morse married Belinda Marianne Mills, the 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.
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Jeremy Morse died from complications of jaw cancer at Royal Trinity Hospice in London on 4 February 2016, at the age of 87.