- 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.
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