She was director of the Royal Ballet School from 1952 till 1968.
She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in 1961 for her services to ballet in Britain,and in 1968 she was awarded the OBE for her services to ballet.
She was a British ballerina and teacher, director of the Royal Ballet School from 1952 to 1968.
The Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award was created in her honour in 1973.
From 1926, she worked with Ninette de Valois as her assistant, then from 1931, ballet mistress for Vic-Wells Ballet.
She danced roles in the ballets of Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Fokine.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Dancing 1972 in recognition of her contribution in the field of dance education.
Moreton studied with Cecchetti and debuted in 1920 in London in The Truth about the Russian Dancers, a play starring Tamara Karsavina.
From 1946 to 1952, she was assistant director of Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet.
In 1921 she was in Serge Diaghilev's staging of The Sleeping Princess and then danced with Léonide Massine's company.