LoginObituary: James Edward Morris
A kind, resourceful and highly popular member of the Trading Standards family
Posted 22 February 2023 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National
UPDATES: Jim Morris came late to Trading Standards but built a career of quiet distinction, from West Riding weights and measures work to the arrival of electronic rail weighbridges and Trade Descriptions enforcement. Remembered as practical, principled and deeply generous, he helped colleagues, students and people in need throughout his life.
James 'Jim' Morris , one of four brothers, was born in Wakefield in 1925. He commenced his working life on the railways (a job that his father obtained for him in an attempt to keep him from going to war). Whilst there he sustained a leg injury which affected him for the rest of his life.
Nevertheless, despite this injury, in January 1945 he joined the RAF and served in the Far Ea...
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