{{Short description|16th-century English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} '''James Morice''' (1539–1597) was an English politician.
==Biography== Morice was born in 1539, the eldest son of William Morice of Chipping Ongar and Anne Isaac of Kent. The younger Morice was educated at the Middle Temple.<ref name=HOP>{{Cite web |title=Morice, James (1539-97), of Chipping Ongar, Essex |website=History of Parliament Online |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/morice-james-1539-97 |access-date=10 October 2023 }}</ref>
Morice was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wareham in 1563. Later, he was MP for Colchester, Essex, for the parliaments of 1584, 1586, 1589, and 1593.<ref name=HOP/>
Morice married Elizabeth, the daughter of George Medley of Tilty Abbey in Essex; they had four sons and three daughters. His heir was his eldest son, John,<ref name=HOP/> who was also an MP.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Morice (afterwards Poyntz), John (1568-1618), of Chipping Ongar, Essex and Heneage House, London |website=History of Parliament Online |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/morice-%28afterwards-poyntz%29-john-1568-1618 |access-date=6 April 2025 }}</ref>
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==External links== *''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Morice, James (1539–1597), lawyer by Christopher W. Brooks.
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