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- 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.
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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.
Sep 19, 2024 · John Morley, Viscount Morley (born Dec. 24, 1838, Blackburn, Eng.—died Sept. 23, 1923, Wimbledon) was an English Liberal statesman who was a friend and official biographer of W.E. Gladstone and who gained fame as a man of letters, particularly as a biographer.
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- Impact of Bengal's Partition
- India Council Reforms
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That partition divided Bengal's province into West Bengal and Eastern Bengal and Assam, provoking heated opposition from the Bengali-speaking leaders of India's National Congress, who viewed it as imperial "divide and rule" with a vengeance. The line divided the Bengali-speaking majority just east of Calcutta, the heart of long-united old Bengal, l...
Morley introduced several major reforms in British India's Constitution, enacted as the Indian Councils Act of 1909, less accurately termed "Morley–Minto Reforms,"since Minto's role was primarily to delay and undermine the effectiveness of the original bill Morley had proposed. Great Liberal that he was, Morley pressed for and achieved the introduc...
Das, Manmath Nath. India under Morley and Minto: Politics behind Revolution, Repression, and Reforms.London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1964. Knickerbocker, Francis W. Free Minds: John Morley and HisFriends. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UniversityPress, 1943. Morgan, John H. John, Viscount Morley: An Appreciation andSome Reminiscences.Boston: Houghton Miffli...
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.
May 18, 2023 · John Morley was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of a doctor who wanted him to become a clergyman. Disenchanted with the “High Church” and quarreling with his father, he left Oxford without an honors degree and pursued Law. He was called to the bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1873.
Biography of John Morley (1838-1923), the leading Victorian and Edwardian Liberal who could be seen as both of the left and the right.
John Morley. Born 24th December 1838 - Died 23rd September 1923. 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn. Liberal MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1883-1895, Montrose Burghs 1896-1908. Chief Secretary for Ireland 1886, 1892-95, Secretary of State for India 1905-10, 1911, Lord President of the Council 1910-14.
