Fergus Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton

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Fergus Dunlop Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton PC (17 October 1887 – 18 July 1973) was a British judge. He was born in Glasgow, and educated there at Kelvinside Academy before proceeding to St John's College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself in classics and law. He was called to the English bar in 1912. He returned to the Chancery bar in 1919 after war service in the Highland Light Infantry, where he won the M.C. He took silk in 1929 and nine years later became a High Court judge in the Chancery Division, with the customary knighthood.

Sworn of the Privy Council and promoted Lord Justice of Appeal in 1944, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1947 and created a life peer with the title Baron Morton of Henryton, of Henryton in the County of Ayrshire. In 1959, he retired as Lord of Appeal.

In 1940, he became an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and a Deputy High Steward of Cambridge University in 1954.