Researching Elizabeth Morton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 16006 people with the Morton surname? In that year Morton was ranked number 239 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Elizabeth means "consecrated to God" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Elizabeth Morton and the Morton Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 20751 people with the Morton surname in the UK? Morton is now ranked number 260 for popularity in the UK. |
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Elizabeth Morton
Elizabeth Heery (born 1961) is a British actress and writer. As an actress she works under the name Elizabeth Morton and is known for playing Madeline Bassett in seasons three and four of ITV series Jeeves and Wooster and for playing Lucinda Stoneway in seasons five, six, and seven of ITV's 90s sitcom Watching. Since 2016 she has been an ambassador for the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. In 2018 she secured a two book deal with Ebury Press, part of penguin/Random House publishing. Her novel A Liverpool Girl was published in 2019, followed by a second novel in August 2020, 'A Last Dance in Liverpool'. Both books reached Number One and Number 3 respectively in the Booksellers Heatseekers Charts. It was announced in The Bookseller magazine in August 2020 that she had secured a book deal with PanMacMillan for two more Liverpool sagas. Angel of Liverpool was published in 2021 and was a number 3 Heatseeker, People’s Friend Recommendation and reached the Top 10 WH Smith bestsellers. The Girl From Liverpool will be published July 2022. Elizabeth narrates all her books for audio.
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Elizabeth Homer Morton
Elizabeth Homer Morton (February 3, 1903 – July 6, 1977) was a Canadian librarian. She was the best-known librarian of her generation.
The daughter of Canadian missionaries, she was born in Tunapuna, Trinidad, received her early education there and attended high school in Saint John, New Brunswick. Morton earned a BA from Dalhousie University and a teacher's license at the Normal School in Truro, Nova Scotia. She taught briefly in Cape Breton. She took a librarian's course at the Ontario Library School in Toronto and was hired by the cataloguing department of the Toronto Public Library. In 1928, Morton returned to New Brunswick, where she served as a teacher and helped organize a library at the Saint John Vocational School. She later served as secretary for the New Brunswick Library Commission. From 1931 to 1944, she worked in the reference department of the Toronto Public Library. From 1936 to 1943, she was also secretary-treasurer for the Ontario Library Association.
In 1944, she was named executive secretary for the Canadian Library Council. Morton was the founding director of the Canadian Library Association (CLA), serving from 1946 to 1968. Under her leadership, the CLA pushed for the creation of Canada's National Library, later Library and Archives Canada. She was also the first editor of The Canadian Library Journal and Feliciter. In 1969, she completed a MA in library science at the University of Chicago. She worked as a library consultant for the Canadian National Library and was hired by UNESCO to report on library services in Trinidad and Tobago.
Morton was named to the Order of Canada in 1968. In 1969, she was named an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Alberta.
She died in Ottawa at the age of 94.
In 1988, the Elizabeth Morton Memorial Fund was established.
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