MORLEY, Atkinson. b. 1781; studied medicine at St. George’s hospital; proprietor of the Burlington hotel 19 and 20 Cork st. and of Morley’s hotel 1–3 Trafalgar sq. London. d. Old Burlington st. London 14 July 1858. Medical Times 24 July 1858 p. 91.
Note.—He left £100,000 with which was founded the Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent hospital. Wimbledon (in connection with St. George’s hospital, London) hospital opened 14 July 1869, receives upwards of 600 patients yearly and contains 80 beds.
MORLEY, Sir Francis Brockman (1 son of George Morley, barrister of Inner Temple). b. Brompton, London 1819; ensign 90 foot 5 April 1839; lieut. 40 foot 27 May 1842, captain 18 Aug. 1848, sold out 23 Dec. 1853; served under sir Charles Napier and lord Gough in India; exon. of H.M.’s body guard of yeomen of the guard 24 Oct. 1868 to death; hon. col. 3 batt. Middlesex regt. militia 1886 to death; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Middlesex 25 July 1869, resigned 1889; K.C.B. 2 Feb. 1886. d. 14 Norland place, Notting hill, London 20 April 1892. bur. Brompton cemet. 25 April.
MORLEY, Frederick. b. Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 16 Dec. 1850; a frame work knitter; a left handed batsman and one of the best fast bowlers of his day; engaged by the Notts. commercial club 1869, at Bolton 1870–1; played his first match at Lords 6–8 May 1872; played with the England Eleven 1872–3; engaged at Lords 1874–81; went to Australia with the seventh English team 1882–3. d. 28 Sept. 1884. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 346–7.
MORLEY, George (son of rev. George Morley president of Wesleyan conference 1830, d. 10 Sept. 1843). b. about 1802; ed. at Woodhouse Grove school, Yorkshire; apprenticed to a draper; L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1832; became an eminent surgeon at 18 Park place, Leeds; lectured on chemistry at Leeds school of medicine many years; one of the medical experts at trials of the prisoners Wm. Dove and Wm. Palmer in 1856. d. Jersey 14 Aug. 1867.
MORLEY, Henry (son of Henry Morley of Midhurst, Sussex). b. 100 Hatton garden, London 15 Sept. 1822; ed. at a Moravian school at Neuweid on the Rhine; studied at King’s college, London 1838–43; passed the Apothecaries hall 1843; partner with a doctor at Madeley, Shropshire 1844–8; kept a school at Manchester 1848, and at Liverpool 1848–50; wrote in Household Words and All the year round about 1850–65; sub-editor of The Examiner, then editor; English lecturer to evening classes at King’s college, London 1857–65; professor of English language and literature at University college, London 2 Dec. 1865 to 1890; professor of English language and literature at Queen’s college, London 1878–90; principal of University hall, Gordon sq. London 1882–90; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1879; lived at 8 Upper Park road, Hampstead 3 May 1858 to 1889; author of Sunrise in Italy 1848; A defence of ignorance 1851; Palissy the Potter 1852, 4 ed. 1878; Jerome Cardan, 2 vols. 1854; Cornelius Agrippa, 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of Bartholomew fair 1859; English writers, 2 vols. 1864–67; English writers, 4 vols. 1887–89; Clement Marot, 2 vols. 1871; A first sketch of English literature 1873, 13 ed. 1886; editor of Cassell’s library of English literature, 5 vols. 1875–81; Morley’s Universal library, 63 vols. 1883–8; Cassell’s National library, 214 vols. 1886–90; The Carisbrooke library, 14 vols. 1889–91; Companion Poets, 9 vols. 1891–2. d. Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 14 May 1894. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 375–76; Graphic 19 May 1894 p. 582 portrait.
MORLEY, Sir Isaac (son of Wm. Morley). b. Doncaster 1801; a merchant at Doncaster; mayor of Doncaster 1841; knighted 1841. d. Beechfield, Doncaster 1 Dec. 1879.
MORLEY, Samuel (youngest child of John Morley of Wood st. London, hosier, d. 1848). b. Well st. Hackney 15 Oct. 1809; hosier with his brother John Morley in Wood st. Cheapside, London 1842–55, sole partner 1855; a frame-work knitter at Nottingham 1860; built mills at Loughborough, Leicester, Heanor in Derbyshire, and Daybrook and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.; his business was the largest in the textile industries of its class, employing about 8,000 people; took Thomas Hill into partnership 1860; chairman of the dissenters’ parliamentary committee 1847; treasurer of the Ancient Merchants’ lectures 1849–79; organized the Administrative reform association May 1855; treasurer to Home Missionary society 1858; promoted religious services in theatres 1860; chairman of the Bank act and currency reform committee 1861; contributed £6,000 to erection of Congregationalist memorial hall in Farringdon st. London 1875; spent £14,000 in building chapels 1864–70; M.P. Nottingham 1865, unseated on petition 1866; contested Bristol April 1868; M.P. Bristol 16 Nov. 1868 to 18 Nov. 1885; seconded the address in house of commons 1871; member for city of London of London school board Nov. 1870 to Dec. 1876; a great supporter of the temperance movement; refused a peerage 24 June 1885; author of The drinking usages of the commercial room 1862. d. Hall place near Tonbridge 5 Sept. 1886. bur. Abney Park cemet. London, portrait by H. T. Wells R.A. in Library of Congregationalist memorial hall, marble statue of him erected at Bristol. J. C. Harrison’s S. Morley, personal reminiscences (1886); E. Hodder’s Life of S. Morley (1889) portrait; The Congregationalist xv 711–19 (1886); I.L.N. lviii 158–169 (1871) portrait; Biograph v 51–5 (1881).
MORLEY, William. b. 1785; a fitter and setter up of stocking and point net lace frames in Nottingham; introduced the use of a 5-bar tackle on the point net frame; with John Kendall constructed the straight bolt which had great rapidity of movement 1811; invented the circular bolt; invented a machine for making plain net which brought him much profit; became the leading man in Nottingham in the lace trade; in business with Messrs. Boden of Derby, retired 1853. d. 1855. Felkin’s Machine-wrought hosiery (1867) 313–5; Lace in Ure’s Dictionary of Arts iii 32 (1875).
MORLEY, William. b. 1 Jany. 1787; established the first wholesale Manchester warehouse in London at 36 Gutter lane Cheapside 1806; chairman of several railway companies in the early days. d. Windmill house, Blackheath, Kent 10 March 1884.