Samuel Morley (bishop)

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ The Times, Friday, 21 February 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34819; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  2. 1 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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