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- At the outbreak of World War I Morley, who was a well-known pacifist, resigned his office. During his retirement he wrote his Recollections (1917), a valuable late defense of Victorian liberalism. At the time of his death on Sept. 23, 1923, he was accounted one of the venerables of English letters.
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Feb 16, 2024 · The main man: The firm is controlled by John Morley, described on Legacie’s website as “one of Liverpool’s largest private landlords”. He is a director and majority shareholder of dozens of different companies, some bearing the Legacie name others not.
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC, FRS, FBA (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.
Biography of John Morley (1838-1923), the leading Victorian and Edwardian Liberal who could be seen as both of the left and the right.
V iscount Morley of Blackburn, better known as John Morley, the philosopher-statesman friend of Gladstone, died last week at the age of 84 from heart failure.
Morley was a Liberal of the ‘right’ in the early twentieth century. He ended his political career as the first and only Viscount Morley of Blackburn, the septuagenar-ian senior statesman of Asquith’s Cabinet, and the butt of some of his colleagues’ humour for his political timidity and dislike of the new agenda of social reform.
Aug 15, 2023 · Churchill considered John Morley “among the four most pleasing and brilliant men to whom I have ever listened…. There was a rich and positive quality about Morley’s contributions, and a sparkle of phrase and drama which placed him second to none….”. Morley died in 1923, not to be replaced.
Jun 27, 2018 · The English statesman and author John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923), was one of the principal Victorian expositors of the ideas of the Enlightenment. He was a leader of the Liberal party, which drew nourishment from those ideas.
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