Samuel_Morley,_1st_Baron_Hollenden

Samuel Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden

Samuel Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden

British businessman (1845–1929)

Samuel Hope Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden DL JP (3 July 1845 – 18 February 1929), was a British businessman.[1]

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Early life

Morley was the son of Samuel Morley and Rebekah Maria Hope, daughter of Samuel Hope of Liverpool.[1] The Liberal politician Arnold Morley was his younger brother. He completed a master's degree at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1872.[1]

His maternal grandfather was Samuel Hope of Liverpool and his paternal grandparents were Sarah (née Poulton) Morley and John Morley, a hosiery manufacturer.[2]

Career

He was a partner in the firm of I. and R. Morley, Wood Street;[3][4] and served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1893 to 1895.[1] He lived in Grosvenor Square.[5] On 9 February 1912, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent.[6][7]

He held the office of Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Kent and, later Justice of the Peace for the County of London.[8]

Personal life

On 6 March 1884, Morley married Laura Marianne Birch (d. 1945), a daughter of Reverend G. Royds Birch.[1] Together, they were the parents of two sons:[8]

He died in February 1929, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Geoffrey. Lady Hollenden died in 1945. As the second baron had no male heirs, the subsequent barons were all descended from Lord Hollenden's second son Claude.[1]

Arms

Coat of arms of Samuel Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden
Crest
A demigriffin argent, wings elevated ermine, holding between the claws a leopard's face jessant de lis as in the arms.
Escutcheon
Argent, a leopard's face jessantde lis sable between three griffins' heads erased gules.
Supporters
On either side a stag proper, chained around the neck and suspended therefrom an anchor or.
Motto
Latin: (Tenax Proposit), Tenacious of purpose.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    (Hesilrige 1921, p. 481)
  2. [2]
    Parry, Jonathan. "Morley, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19291. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. [3]
    Cassis, Youssef; Cassis, Professor of Economic History Youssef (15 September 1994). City Bankers, 1890-1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 87, 100, 198–200. ISBN 978-0-521-44188-9. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. [4]
    Malchow, Howard LeRoy (17 January 2018). Agitators and Promoters in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli: A Biographical Dictionary of the Leaders of British Pressure Groups Founded Between 1865 and 1886. Routledge. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-351-05737-0. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Grosvenor Square: Individual Houses built before 1926 Pages 117-166 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings)". British History Online. LCC 1980. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  6. [6]
    "No. 28579". The London Gazette. 9 February 1912. p. 972.
  7. [7]
    Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 481.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. [8]
    Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 1944.
  9. [9]
    "Geoffrey Hope Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
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