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Sydney became a very successful solicitor, setting up the firm of Sydney Morse & Co, based in the City of London. His firm was associated with many institutions themselves involved in new technologies, including forty or more tramway and electric lighting companies, through to gramophone
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Many years after his death Sydney Morse & Co continued to operate, becoming in the mid-twentieth century part of
Waltons & Morse LLP, who continued into the twentieth-first century as one of the City of London's leading specialists in shipping and insurance law.
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in memory of his father. Amongst other works collected by Sydney Morse were important pieces by Blake, Whistler and a number of
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manufacturers. Sydney married Juliet in 1878 with whom he had a number of children, including
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pieces. Holman Hunt also did a drawing of Sydney Morse himself, c.1897–8.
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player. He played his final match for
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391:The Times
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