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Reginald Owen Morris, almost universally cited in sources and referred to even by his friends by his initials, as 'R.O. Morris', was a British composer whose compositions have been overshadowed by his formidable reputation as a teacher. He was born in York on 3 March 1886 and died in London on 14 December 1948. He was educated at Harrow School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music, London, where he subsequently became professor of counterpoint and composition. In 1926 he taught at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. In 1922 he married Emmie Fisher, thus becoming brother-in-law to Vaughan Williams, who had married her sister Adeline.
