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| office = President of Fort St George (Madras)<br />
| term_start = 14 January 1744<br />
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'''Nicholas Morse''' (died 28 May 1772) the great-grandson of the British [[politician|statesman]] and [[revolutionary]] [[Oliver Cromwell]] and served as the last President of Madras before the [[Battle of Madras]] and the French occupation of [[Fort St George]] and its surroundings in 1746.<br />
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Morse's presidency was short and was characterised by hostilities between the British and the French. This hostilities culminated in 1746 by the occupation of Madras by the French under [[Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais]] ending Morse's short tenure.<br />
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Morse's daughter Emilia was married to [[Henry Vansittart]], [[Governor of Bengal]] from 1759 to 1764. Nicholas Morse is buried in St Mary's Church in Madras.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/text.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_373.gif |title=Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 16, page 367 - Imperial Gazetteer of India - Digital South Asia Library |publisher=Dsal.uchicago.edu |accessdate=23 March 2007}}</ref><br />
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A website on slave trade has named Nicholas Morse along with another Governor of Fort St George [[William Gyfford]] as a prominent slave-trader.<ref>{{cite web|author=Dan Byrnes |url=http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/bcslave.htm |title=bcslave.htm - Questions on Slavery - The Blackheath Connection |publisher=Danbyrnes.com.au |accessdate=23 March 2007}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of colonial Governors and Presidents of Madras Presidency]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |date=13 October 2004 |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p13094.htm#i130933 |title=Nicholas Morse |publisher= The Peerage|accessdate=23 March 2007}}<br />
*{{cite web|first=K. |last=Kalyanasundaram |date=6 October 2006 |url=http://tamilelibrary.org/teli/chennai2.html |title=History, Geographical and Physical Features of Chennai City, Capital of Tamilnadu |accessdate=23 March 2007}}<br />
*{{cite web|editor-first=Sue |editor-last=Lally |date=28 December 2003 |url=http://www.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/cemetery.htm |title=Cemetery Index for St Mary's Fort St George, Madras City, India (index was transcribed from LDS film number 0795967) |accessdate=23 March 2007}}<br />
*{{cite web|first=Dan |last=Byrnes |date=30 January 2010 |url=http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/bcslave.htm |title=Questions of slavery |publisher=The Blackheath Connection}}<br />
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