Samuel Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden

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

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

Background

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]

Career

He was a partner in the firm of I. and R. Morley, Wood street; and served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1893 to 1895.[1] On 9 February 1912, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent.[2]

Family

Lord Hollenden married Laura Marianne Birch, daughter of Reverend G. Royds Birch, in 1884.[1] He died in February 1929, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Geoffrey. Lady Hollenden died in 1945.[3]

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. (Hesilrige 1921, p. 481)
  2. "No. 28579". The London Gazette. 9 February 1912. p. 972.
  3. "Samuel Hope-Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden". geni.com.

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