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P. Morley Horder
1895-1929

Percy Morley Horder was an architect who worked on several university and college buildings in England, as well as other projects. He designed the Jessu College Boathouse and Chapel Court. He also designed the former Chestnut College on Bateman Street.

Person · 9 March 1908 - 1 September 1995

Basil Cowley Morton Palmer was born 9 March 1908 in Teignmouth, the son of Dr Frederick W. Morton, a Jesuan, and was the cousin of Jesuan Michael Sydney Morton Palmer (1935).
He attended Charterhouse between 1922 - 1926, where he played on the football and cricket teams.
He matriculated at Jesus College in 1926 and was a member of the soccer and cricket teams, and completed his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Medicine between 1926 - 1936, receiving a third class degree in Psychology in 1929, and also completed a Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery of the Society of Apothecaries, at Guy's Hospital, in the opthalmology department.
He was married to Betty.
During the Second World War, he was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was wounded in action in Anzio, Italy in Spring 1944.
He went on to become a general medical practioner in Copthorne, Sussex, and also worked in the opthalmic department in Charing Cross Hospital.
He died in 1995.