Note.—His eld. son William Morley chairman of Royal Albert orphan asylum. d. April 1883.
MORLEY, William Hook (son of George Morley barrister). b. 1815; barrister M.T. 12 Jany. 1838; connected with appeal cases from India, having a knowledge of Persian and Arabic; edited The history of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia by Mir Khwand 1848; author of Analytical digest of reported cases decided in the supreme court of judication in India 2 vols 1849–50, New Ser. vol. 1 1852 no more published; The administration of justice in British India, its past and present history 1858; On the Muhammedan laws prevalent in India; Description of a planispheric astrolabe constructed by Sháh Husain 1856; A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in Arabic and Persian in the library of the Royal Asiatic society 1854; The coins of the Atabek princes of Syria and Asia Minor. d. 35 Brompton sq. London 21 May 1860. Numismatic Chronicle xx Proceeding 34–5 (1860).
MORNINGTON, William Pole Tylney Long Wellesly 4 Earl of (only son of 3 earl of Mornington 1763–1845). b. 22 May 1788; sec. of embassy and minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople 1807; sec. at Copenhagen; succeeded 22 Feb. 1845; ranger of Epping forest; constable of Maryborough castle; M.P. Wiltshire 1818–20; M.P. St. Ives 1830–1; M.P. Essex 1831–2. d. at his lodgings Thayer st. Manchester sq. London 1 July 1857. G.M. iii 215 (1857).
Note.—He m. (1) 14 March 1812 Catherine eld. dau. and co heir of Sir James Tylney Long, Bart., and assumed additional surnames of Tylney Long.
At the wedding the lady’s dress cost 700 guineas the bonnet 150, and the veil 200. Her jewellery cost 25,000 guineas. Eight hundred wedding favours were distributed at a cost of a guinea and a half each. She possessed in landed estates alone £1,500,000. He was the second person whom the Court of chancery deprived of paternal rights by withdrawing his children out of his care. His life was insured for about a quarter of a million, but he lived latterly upon an allowance of £10 a week from the duke of Wellington.
MORPHETT, Sir John (son of Nathaniel Morphett, solicitor). b. London 4 May 1809; landed at Kangaroo Island 11 Sept. 1836 and was present at the proclamation of colony of South Australia 28 Dec. 1836; a general merchant, helped to lay out the town of Adelaide 1837; member of committee for protection of aborigines 6 March 1838; founded the Literary Association and Mechanics’ Institute; treasurer of the corporation of Adelaide 5 Dec. 1840; member of the first legislature of the colony 15 June 1843 to 1857; speaker 20 Aug. 1851 to 1855; member of the legislative council 1857–73; chief secretary 4 Feb. to 8 Oct. 1861; president of the council March 1865 to 1873; knighted by patent 30 April 1870. d. Cumming, South Australia 7 Nov. 1892. I.L.N. xxi 141, 142 (1852) portrait.
MORPHINOS, Narcissus. b. 1808 or 1809; minister of the Greek church, London Wall, London 1848–74. d. 1 Sutherland place, Bayswater, London 14 July 1878. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London (1870) 53–7.
MORRALL, Michael Thomas. A needle manufacturer at Studley works, Warwickshire; introduced the grooveless needle into London 1843; author of History and description of needle making 1852, 5 ed. 1866 portrait.
MORRELL, Charles Francis (only son of Thomas Samuel Morrell of The Grove, Bayons park, Lincolnshire). b. 12 March 1853; ed. Cheltenham coll. and Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1875; barrister M.T. 13 June 1877; edited Sir R. Lane’s Exchequer Reports 1605–12, 1884; author of The handy book of the law of horses 1881; A popular statement of the law of wills 1882; Probate and administrations, a handbook for executors 1882; A popular statement of the law of insurance 1883; A concise statement of the bankruptcy act 1883, 2 ed. 1884; Reports of cases under the bankruptcy act 1883 etc. 9 vols. 1885–93; Bankruptcy, a manual of practical law 1891; Insurance, a manual 1892. d. 2 Tavistock place, London 3 Feb. 1894.
MORRELL, Frederick Joseph (2 son of Baker Morrell, solicitor to univ. of Oxford, d. 10 April 1854 aged 75). b. Oxford 25 Jany. 1811; solicitor at Oxford 1832 to death; solicitor to univ. of Oxford Dec. 1853 to death; founder of the Oxford churchmen’s union. d. 85 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Jany. 1883. bur. Broughton churchyard 18 Jany. Solicitors’ Journal xxvii 185, 201 (1883).