A POETS ROMANCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 344

A POETS ROMANCE.

A romantic story (says the London Star) has just become known in connection with Sir Lewis Morris which is worthy of treatment by Mr George Meredith. The poet is a man of fifty-five years of age, and has always been looked upon in his native Carmarthen as a rigid and austere bachelor. It has just come to light, however, that he has been married since 1868, and that he has a family of three children—one son and two daughters. The son—also a Lewis Morris—is about to be married, and will take up his residence at the familyseat near Carmarthen, where the poet’s brother, Mr C. E. Morris, has hitherto resided. It is stated that not even his nearest relatives were acquainted with Sir Lewis’s marriage before last Christmas. Sir Lewis Morris is descended in a direct line from Mr Lewis Morris, of Anglesea, who was the leader of the Welsh literary revival in the last century, and who set up the second printing press in Wales. It is not generally known that Sir Lewis distinguished himself at Oxford as a prose writer. He did not take the Newdigate prize, but the Arnold prize for an English essav. He took a brilliant first in Literae Humaniores, and was for some years a Fellow of Jesus College.