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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, GBE, CH, FRS (10 October 1877 – 22 August 1963), was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered as the founder of the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Trust and Nuffield College, Oxford, as well as being involved in his ...
May 29, 2018 · Nuffield, William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount (1877–1963) English automobile manufacturer and philanthropist. Nuffield developed low-price, mass-produced cars and revolutionized the British car industry.
The surviving photographs show a handsome couple. Morris was good-looking, of medium height and athletic physique, with dark hair smoothed back from his forehead. Although his hair turned silver by the 1930s his appearance changed remarkably little over the course of a very long life.
The Viscount Nuffield Lecture was established in honour of the life of William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield. Nuffield was President of the Institution of Manufacturing Engineers (IMfgE), formerly the Institution of Production Engineers (IProdE).
Abstract. Lord Nuffield’s contributions as an industrialist and benefactor are so great that it is impossible to do justice to them, or even to mention them all, in an article of this length.
Mar 7, 2013 · Although his business was disrupted by the First World War, Morris went on to dominate the British car industry and was made a baron in 1934 and 4 years later Viscount for his services to car manufacturing.
He received many awards from the Crown (OBE 1918, Baronet 1929, created Lord Nuffield 1934, advanced to Viscount 1938, advanced to GBE 1941, CH 1958) and professional organisations (FRS 1939, FRCSHon 1948 and FFARCSHon 1953).
