John Morice

Sir John Morice (died 1362) was a Bedfordshire gentleman who spent most of his career in English Ireland, remembered for his keen, if not very successful, efforts to reform its government. He began in English noble service and sat for Bedfordshire in the Parliament of 1322.

In Ireland he was escheator from 1329 to 1336 and several times deputy justiciar. Charged with carrying out Edward III's reform ordinances of 1341, he governed as justiciar and was briefly lord chancellor, but his rule was judged inept and unpopular.

He was recalled in 1349 and died in England in 1362. His portrait in the Waterford Charter Roll is called the earliest of an Irish judge.