John Morris was born at Syston, Lincolnshire, October 25, 1773, of poor but honest parents. Soon after his birth, his parents removed to Harrowby, a small hamlet about two miles from Grantham, where they continued for some years. The family having increased, the parents were not able to give John much schooling; but he went for a time to a day-school at Grantham, and from that to be farmer's boy at the farm where his father worked. After a year or so he was taken into the house, and for several years was with the family as ploughboy, &c. At about 16 years of age he left the farmer's employ, and went to live at Welby Warren, where he continued for two years; and it…