About Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (30 July 1914 – 25 April 1999) was an Irish journalist, author, sports official, and the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1972 to 1980. He succeeded his uncle as Baron Killanin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1927, when he was 12, which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster as Lord Killanin upon turning 21. == Early life == Morris was born in London, the son of Lt. Col. George Morris, an Irish Catholic from Spiddal in Connemara, County Galway. His grandfather was Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, who had served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1887 to 1889. The Morrises were one of the fourteen families making up the Tribes of Galway. On 1 September 1914, early in the First World War, Killanin's father was killed in action near Villers-Cotterêts, France, while commanding the Irish Guards. His Australian-born mother, Dora Maryon Wesley Hall (1891–1948), was the second-eldest daughter of English-born James Wesley Hall (1839–1901) and Australian Mary Dora Frederica Hall (née Dempster; 1864–1895). Wesley Hall was the first general manager of the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Limited in the Colony of Queensland, Australia, from 1886 to 1891.
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