Alfred Morris (university administrator)
Alfred Cosier Morris is a British academic. He was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England in Bristol from 1992 to 2005 and before that was Director of its predecessor, Bristol Polytechnic, from 1986.
Educated at Hymers College, Morris went on to study financial control at the University of Lancaster.
In September 2008, Morris was appointed interim Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter in order to ensure the creation of a new institution incorporating Trinity University College and University of Wales, Lampeter.
In May 2009 it was announced that Morris had been appointed interim Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University, following the resignation of Brian Roper. He was succeeded in November 2009 by Malcolm Gillies.
Since 2004, Morris has been a member of The Society of Merchant Venturers, an institution established by Royal Charter in 1552 whose membership is invited "from individuals who have been successful in their chosen area of business". The Society has been accused of being involved in attempts to sanitise the memory of merchant and slave trader Edward Colston, born 1636, and have been accused of attempting to create a "cult of Colston". In response, present day Merchants point to the roles of later members including its Master, Joseph Harford, in chairing the Bristol Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade which was the first provincial committee founded, in 1788, to promote that object.
