Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's plaintive cry, "Oh, the humanity!"

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Other high stewards have included the Georgian-era prime minister Lord Rockingham, Hull businessman and MP Thomas Robinson Ferens and former Labour home secretary Herbert Morrison.

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He will follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, Labour foreign and home secretary Herbert Morrison, who was High Steward of Hull from 1956 to 1965.

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