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A male given name transferred from the surname
Any of several places of that name (or Moreton) meaning "settlement near a moor or marsh"
An English and Scottish habitational surname from the placename
{i} male first name; family name; Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton (1885-1941), pianist, jazz composer, known as "Jelly Roll
American dentist who demonstrated the use of ether as an anesthetic (1846). Dershowitz Alan Morton Godfrey Arthur Morton Jellinek Elvin Morton Morton James Douglas 4th earl of Morton Jelly Roll Stanley Sir Henry Morton
United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)

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Alan Morton Dershowitz
Known as a civil liberties lawyer, he appeared for the defense in many highly publicized criminal cases, including those of Claus von Bulow and O.J. Simpson. His journal articles and widely syndicated newspaper columns were published in collections such as The Abuse Excuse (1994); his other books include Reasonable Doubts (1966) and The Best Defense (1982)
Alan Morton Dershowitz
born Sept. 1, 1938, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S. U.S. lawyer. He graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Arthur Goldberg before being appointed to the faculty of Harvard Law School at age
Arthur Morton Godfrey
born Aug. 31, 1903, New York, N.Y., U.S. died March 16, 1983, New York U.S. radio and television entertainer. His relaxed manner and affable banter as a radio host won him such a wide following that he had two daily shows and a weekly show on CBS in the 1940s. His variety show, which transferred to television as Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and later The Arthur Godfrey Show (1948-60), launched the careers of numerous popular entertainers
Elvin Morton Jellinek
born Aug. 15, 1890, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Oct. 22, 1963, Palo Alto, Calif. U.S. physiologist. He studied at the University of Leipzig and worked in Budapest, Sierra Leone, and Honduras before returning to the U.S., where he studied alcoholism. He was an early proponent of the theory that alcoholism should be treated as a disease. He gathered and summarized his and others' research in the authoritative Alcohol Explored (1942) and The Disease Concept of Alcoholism (1960)
Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton
{i} (1885-1941) pianist, jazz composer, known as "Jelly Roll
Henry Morton Stanley
a British explorer. In 1871 he was sent by a US newspaper to find David Livingstone in Africa, and is famous for saying "Dr Livingstone, I presume" when he found him. People sometimes say this as a joke when they meet someone (1841-1904)
James Douglas 4th earl of Morton
born 1516 died June 2, 1581, Edinburgh, Scot. Scottish nobleman. Appointed chancellor by Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1563, he conspired with other Protestant nobles to murder Mary's adviser David Riccio and probably was involved in the murder of Lord Darnley. He led the nobles that drove Mary's husband, the earl of Bothwell, from Scotland and forced her to abdicate in favour of her infant son, James (later James I of England). He became regent for James in 1572 and restored the rule of law to Scotland. Resented by the other nobles, he was forced to resign in 1578; he was later charged with complicity in Darnley's murder and executed
Jelly Roll Morton
a US jazz piano player and band leader, who helped to develop New Orleans jazz (1885-1941). orig. Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe born Oct. 20, 1890, New Orleans, La., U.S. died July 10, 1941, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. pianist and the first important composer in jazz. In his youth Morton was apparently active as a gambler, pool shark, and procurer. A pioneer ragtime piano player, he toured the country as a pianist from 1904, making his first recordings in Chicago in 1923 with his ensemble the Red Hot Peppers. An exponent of the New Orleans tradition, Morton achieved success integrating elements of ragtime with improvised and arranged ensemble passages, often on his own compositions such as "King Porter Stomp." By the early 1930s Morton's fame had been overshadowed by that of Louis Armstrong and other emerging innovators
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
orig. John Rowlands born Jan. 28, 1841, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales died May 10, 1904, London, Eng. British-U.S. explorer of central Africa. An illegitimate child, Stanley grew up partly in a British workhouse; he sailed to the U.S. as a cabin boy in 1859. After becoming a journalist for the New York Herald in 1867, he embarked (1871) on a journey to locate David Livingstone, of whom little had been heard since his departure for Africa in 1866. On finding him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, Stanley uttered the famous words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" He further explored central Africa for extended periods between 1874 and 1884, often in the service of Leopold II of Belgium, for whom he paved the way for the creation of the Congo Free State. Stanley's last expedition (1888) was for the relief of Mehmed Emin Pasha, who had been cut off by the Mahdist revolt in the Sudan; he escorted Emin and 1,500 others to the eastern coast. His highly popular books include Through the Dark Continent (1878) and In Darkest Africa (1890)
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