Lords, despite his frequent dissenting judgments. Eleven years later, on his retirement from office, Lord Morris was made an hereditary peer as Baron Killanin, of Galway in the County of Galway. Judgements British South Africa Co v Companhia de Moçambique [1893] AC 602 - the House of Lords overturned a Court of Appeal decision and by so doing established the Mozambique rule, a common law rule in private international law that renders actions relating to title in foreign land, the right to possession of foreign land, and trespass to foreign land non-justiciable in common law jurisdictions. Harvey v Facey, 1893 Family Lord Morris died at Spiddal in September 1901, aged 74, and was buried at Galway. He married, in 1860, Anna Hughes, daughter of Henry George Hughes, Baron of the Court of Exchequer and his wife Sarah Isabella l'Estrange. She was the child of a mixed marriage, and had been brought up in the Church of Ireland. They had four sons and six daughters. The eldest son Martin Morris was an MP and succeeded in the barony of Killanin and baronetcy. Another son was Lt. Col. George Henry Morris, who was the first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle and was killed in action during the Retreat from Mons in September 1914. George's son Michael went on to serve as the sixth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1972 to 1980. He succeeded his uncle Martin as Baron Killanin in 1927. References External links 1826 births 1901 deaths People from Galway (city) Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, Michael Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish barristers Solicitors-General for Ireland Attorneys-General for Ireland Morris, Michael Morris, Michael Morris, Michael UK MPs who were granted peerages Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Morris, Michael Law lords Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Members of the Privy Council of Ireland High Sheriffs of Galway Town Lords chief justice of Ireland Chief Justices of the Irish Common Pleas Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria Life peers created by Queen Victoria