John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Politician
1838 – 1923
Who was John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn?
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his hero, William Gladstone. Morley is best known for his writings and for his "reputation as the last of the great nineteenth-century Liberals". He opposed imperialism and the Boer War, and his opposition to British entry into the First World War led him to leave government in 1914.
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- Born
- Dec 24, 1838
Blackburn - Also known as
- John Morley
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Lincoln College, Oxford
- Cheltenham College
- Died
- Sep 23, 1923
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on July 23, 2013
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