Samuel Morley (bishop)

The Rt Rev Samuel Morley was Bishop of Tinnevelly at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[1]

He was born in 1841 into a musical family: a younger brother Felix W. Morley (died August 1915), was organist of Pembroke College, Cambridge[2] and conductor of the Cambridge Musical Society.[3] Another, Frederick Morley (c. 1850–1929), was an organist and music teacher in Sydney, Australia; his son F. Barron Morley was a celebrated pianist.[4] Morley was himself a capable violinist.[2]

He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.[5][6] After curacies at Ilkeston and Sandgate,[7] he emigrated to India as a CMS missionary, eventually becoming Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Madras before his elevation to the episcopate in 1896.[8] He retired in 1903 and died twenty years later on 6 November 1923.[9]

References
  1. The Times, Friday, 21 February 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34819; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  2. "A Veteran Organist". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). No. 12930. New South Wales, Australia. 19 October 1920. p. 5. Retrieved 14 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "A Musician's Tour". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 23, 025. New South Wales, Australia. 30 October 1911. p. 11. Retrieved 15 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Sydney Pianist's Remarkable Success". The Maitland Weekly Mercury. Vol. 7128, no. 934. New South Wales, Australia. 25 November 1911. p. 15. Retrieved 15 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Morley, the Rev. Samuel (MRLY882S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  7. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  8. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1062.
  9. Deaths: Rt. Rev. S Morley Church Of South India Thursday, 8 November 1923; pg. 1; Issue 43493; col A
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