Samuel Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Hollenden
Honorific Suffix:DL JP
Office:Governor of the Bank of England
Term Start:1903
Term End:1905
Predecessor:Augustus Prevost
Successor:Alexander Falconer Wallace
Office1:High Sheriff of the County of London
Term Start1:1893
Term End1:1894
Birth Name:Samuel Hope Morley
Birth Date:3 July 1845
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Cambridge
Parents:Samuel Morley
Rebekah Maria Hope
Children:Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden
Hon. Claude Hope-Morley
Relations:Arnold Morley (brother)

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

Early life

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

His maternal grandfather was Samuel Hope of Liverpool and his paternal grandparents were Sarah (Poulton) Morley and John Morley, a hosiery manufacturer.[1]

Career

He was a partner in the firm of I. and R. Morley, Wood Street;[2] [3] and served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1893 to 1895. He lived in Grosvenor Square.[4] On 9 February 1912, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent.[5]

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.

Personal life

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

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.

Arms

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

Notes and References

  1. 19291. Jonathan. Parry. Morley, Samuel.
  2. Book: Cassis . Youssef . Cassis . Professor of Economic History Youssef . City Bankers, 1890-1914 . 15 September 1994 . . 978-0-521-44188-9 . 87, 100, 198–200 . 1 February 2022 . en.
  3. Book: Malchow . Howard LeRoy . 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 . 17 January 2018 . Routledge . 978-1-351-05737-0 . 252 . 1 February 2022 . en.
  4. Web site: 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 . 5 December 2022.
  5. Book: Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. . 1921 . Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy . 160A, Fleet street, London, UK . . 481.
  6. Web site: Geoffrey Hope Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden . www.npg.org.uk . . 1 February 2022 . en.
  7. 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.