Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden (28 January 1885 – 19 October 1977), was a British aristocrat who served as High Sheriff of the County of London.
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Early life
He was the son of Samuel Hope Morley and Laura Marianne (née Birch) Morley. His father, a banker and Governor of the Bank of England, was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent, on 9 February 1912. His paternal grandparents were Samuel Morley, a member of parliament, and Rebekah Maria Hope, and his uncle was Liberal politician Arnold Morley. His maternal grandfather was the Rev. G. Royds Birch. His younger brother, Hon. Claude Hope-Morley, was married to Lady Dorothy Mercer-Henderson, daughter of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire.
He was educated at Eton College in Windsor before attending Trinity College, Cambridge in Cambridgeshire.
Career
In 1917, while living at 7 Connaught Place, London, he succeeded Henry Alexander Trotter to become the High Sheriff of the County of London (a position his father held from 1893 to 1894). Morley was succeeded by The Rt. Hon. Frederick Huth Jackson.
On 18 February 1929, he succeeded to the barony upon his father's death and on 24 October 1923, he had his name legally changed to Geoffrey Hope-Morley by deed poll.