John Morison (pastor)

John Morison
John Morison, engraving by John Whitehead after Henry Room
Born	1791
Died	13 June 1859(1859-06-13)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Pastor
Known for	London Missionary Society; Abolitionism

Rev. Dr John Morison (1791–1859) (also Morrison) was a Scottish Protestant minister in London. He was a longstanding editor of the Evangelical Magazine & Missionary Chronicle, author of theological and biographical subjects, and a Congregational pastor at Trevor Chapel, Knightsbridge, London. He was known for his bold and fervid utterances on the platform, his enthusiastic advocacy of the work of the London Missionary Society, and support for the abolition of slavery in the USA.

A native of Scotland, John Morison became one of the principal representatives of Congregationalism in London, during the mid-nineteenth century and a committee member of the London Missionary Society.

He was ordained 17 February 1815, and became pastor of a congregation at Union Chapel, Sloane Street, Chelsea. In 1816 a larger place of worship was provided for him in the same parish. At the close of that year Trevor Chapel was opened, where he ministered for more than forty years. From about 1827 till 1857 he was editor of the Evangelical Magazine.

Along with fellow LMS committee member, Thomas Raffles of Liverpool, and his friend the Alexander Fletcher of Finsbury Chapel, he was honoured to be one of the three people to whom the escaped slave Moses Roper brought a letter of introduction on his arrival in Britain, seeking assistance and patronage to pursue his object of promoting the cause of emancipation and abolition. To Morison, Moses Roper gave the task of revising the manuscript of his autobiography, A Narrative of the Adventures and Escapes of Moses Roper, but though illness he was compelled to pass this task, and preparation of the preface, to the Rev. Dr T. Price.