text: In 1929 he was awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize by the Chemical Society. In 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1966In 1969
  he was elected a member of the American Society for Nutrition. In 1966 he was made an Honorary Member of the Biochemical Society. In 1971 the University of Liverpool named a new student hostel Morton House after him. He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Wales (1966), Trinity College Dublin (1967) and the University of Coimbra (1964). In 1978 the Biochemical Society established the annual Morton Lecture in his memory for contribution to lipid biochemistry.