MACMORRAN, GEORGE (1853-1920) was born in Dumfries-shire and educated at Biggar, where he commenced teaching. He afterwards attended the Free Church Training College and the Andersonian University in Glasgow, and was then appointed a tutor in the Homerton Training College, London. Returning to Glasgow, he was a junior master in the Highland Society schools from 1874 to 1881, when he came to Otago. In the following year he was appointed first assistant at the Mt Cook Boys school in Wellington, and in 1884 he became headmaster of the Terrace school. There, during a period of 35 years, he achieved marked distinction as a teacher. He was a prominent supporter of the New Zealand Educational Institute and during the war of 1914-18 acted as inspector under the Wellington Education board. Macmorran published in 1900 Some Schools and Schoolmasters of Early Wellington. He died on 6 Oct 1920.

Macmorran, op. cit.; Butchers; Evening Post, 16 Oct 1920.

Reference: Volume 2, page 23

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