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| rdfs:comment | - Samuel Hope Morley (3 July 1845 - 18 February 1929), known as Baron Hollenden from 1912, was a businessman and local politician. He was the eldest son of Samuel Morley (1809-1886), a woollen manufacturer and Radical politician. Following education at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the family firm of I & R Morley Limited. The company, with headquarters in the City of London, were hosiery and textile manufacturers and dealers and were major employers in the Midlands. He retired from the company in 1923. He was also a director of the Bank of England, and Governor of the bank in 1903-05.
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| abstract | - Samuel Hope Morley (3 July 1845 - 18 February 1929), known as Baron Hollenden from 1912, was a businessman and local politician. He was the eldest son of Samuel Morley (1809-1886), a woollen manufacturer and Radical politician. Following education at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the family firm of I & R Morley Limited. The company, with headquarters in the City of London, were hosiery and textile manufacturers and dealers and were major employers in the Midlands. He retired from the company in 1923. He was also a director of the Bank of England, and Governor of the bank in 1903-05. He was briefly a member of the London County Council, when he was chosen as an alderman by the Progressive Party in 1889, but resigned on 15 January 1890. He was High Sheriff of the County of London in 1893 and a member of the City's Commission of Lieutenancy and a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant of Kent. He was also a keen yachtsman. In 1912 he was created a peer as "Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in Kent". He died at his home in Grosvenor Square in 1929, aged 83.
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