MORIER

David Richard (3 son of Isaac Morier, consul general of the Levant company at Constantinople 1750–1817). b. Smyrna 8 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow; secretary to political mi ion sent by British government to Ali Pasha of Janina and to Turkish governors of the Morea and other provinces Jany. 1804, took entire charge of the mi ion May 1807; attached to Robert Adair’s emba y 1808; returned to England July 1812; attaché at Vienna 1813, secretary 1814; British consul general in Paris Sept. 1815, retired on a pension on abolition of his office 5 April 1832; minister plenipotentiary to Swi confederated states at Berne 5 June 1832, retired on pension 19 June 1847; author of What has religion to do with politics? 1848; The basis of morality 1869; Photo, the Suliote, a tale of modern Greece 3 vols. 1857. d. 45 Montagu sq. London 13 July 1877.