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Morley (VISCOUNT JOHN an English)

VISCOUNT JOHN, an English author; born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, Dec. 24, 1838. He was graduated at Oxford in 1859; called to the bar in 1873; was for some time editor of the "Literary Gazette," "F "Fortnightly Review" (1867-1882), "Pall Mall Gazette" (1880-1883), and "MacMillan's Magazine" (1883-1885). He was editor also of the "English Men of Letters" series, to which he contributed the volume on Burke. He was author of a "Life of Cobden," an "Essay on Wordsworth," "Walpole" in the "English Statesman" series, "Studies in Literature" (1891), etc. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of Blackburn in 1869 and Westminster in 1880, but suc- MORMONS ceeded at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1883.

Radical in politics, he was one of Gladstone's chief supporters in his Home Rule scheme, and filled the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland for a short time in 1886; reappointed 1892-1895. De- Defeated at Newcastle in 1895; was elected to Parliament, 1896, for Montrose Burghs, which he represented until raised to the peerage in 1908; Secretary for India, 1905-1910; 1905-1910; resigned to become President of the Council, holding the office until August, 1914, when he retired, being out of sympathy with British war plans. Among his principal later works are: "Studies in Literature" (1891); "Oliver Cromwell" (1900); "Lives of Cobden and Gladstone" (1903); "Recollections" (1917). Has received many honorary degrees from universities, and the Order of Merit, 1902; Chancellor Manchester University, 1902. Andrew Carnegie presented Lord Acton's valuable library to Viscount Morley, which the latter, in 1909, offered to Cambridge University.