Morley
Morley names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Morley VISCOUNT JOHN, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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 succeeded 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. 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.
Morley EDWARD WILLIAMS, American chemist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD WILLIAMS, American chemist, born in Newark, N. J., in 1838. Graduated from Williams College, 1860. Professor of Chemistry, Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, 1869. Professor of Chemistry, Cleveland Medical College, 1873-1888. He was the inventor of a superior apparatus for the analysis of gas. Publication: "Atomic Weight of Oxygen" (1893). President of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1895, and of the American Chemical Society, 1899. Honorary President of the International Conference of Applied Chemistry, 1912.
Morley HENRY, an English writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY, an English writer; born in London, England, Sept. 15, 1822. Educated at King's College; practiced medicine in Shropshire and teaching in Liverpool; and came to London as a journalist in 1851. From 1857 to 1865 he was an English lecturer at King's College; afterward Professor of English Language and Literature at University Hall. His works include "First Sketch of English Literature," "English Writers," "English Literature in the Reign of Victoria," etc. He died May 14, 1894.
Morley a municipal borough of England in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a municipal borough of England in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It has important manufactories of woolen goods and mill machinery. In the neighborhood are coal mines and stone quarries. Pop. about 25,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Viscount John Morley "retired" in 1914, out of sympathy with British war plans; he died on 23 September 1923, and his account of that resignation was published posthumously in 1928 as "Memorandum on Resignation." The entry on Edward Williams Morley praises his gas-analysis apparatus and his work on the atomic weight of oxygen but omits the thing he is now known for entirely: the 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment at Cleveland, whose failure to detect any drift of the Earth through the luminiferous ether became a cornerstone of Einstein's special relativity. Morley in Yorkshire has outgrown its description too: the West Riding was abolished as an administrative county in 1974 and Morley is now part of the City of Leeds, with a population roughly double the 25,000 given, while the woollen mills, coal mines and quarries that defined it have closed. Only Henry Morley, the literary historian who died in 1894, stands as written, though his once-standard survey "English Writers" is now read chiefly by specialists.
Written for this edition, 2026.