Samuel Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden

File:Samuel Hope Morley, Vanity Fair, 1905-08-17.jpg

Vanity Fair caricature by Spy (Leslie Ward), 17 August 1905.

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

Background

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.

Career

He was a partner in the firm of I. and R. Morley and served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1903 to 1905. On 9 February 1912 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent.

Family

Lord Hollenden married Laura Marianne, daughter of Reverend G. Royds Birch, in 1884. He died in February 1929, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Geoffrey. Lady Hollenden died in 1945.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

Government offices
Preceded by Augustus Prevost	Governor of the Bank of England 1903 - 1905	Succeeded by Alexander Falconer Wallace
Honorary titles
Preceded by Bertram Currie	High Sheriff of the County of London 1893–1894	Succeeded by Ferdinand Huth
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Hollenden 1912–1929	Succeeded by Geoffrey Hope-Morley