Samuel Hope Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden DL JP (3 July 1845 – 18 February 1929), was a British businessman.
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Early life
Morley was the son of Samuel Morley and Rebekah Maria Hope, daughter of Samuel Hope of Liverpool. The Liberal politician Arnold Morley was his younger brother.
His maternal grandfather Samuel Hope was the son of merchant William Hope, (namesake) of Hope Street, Liverpool. His paternal grandparents were Sarah (née Poulton) and John Morley, a hosiery manufacturer.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1869 (MA in 1872).
Career
He was a partner in the firm of I. and R. Morley, Wood Street; and served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1893 to 1895. He lived in Grosvenor Square. On 9 February 1912, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent.
He held the office of Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Kent and, later Justice of the Peace for the County of London.
Personal life
On 6 March 1884, Morley married Laura Marianne Birch (d. 1945), a daughter of Reverend G. Royds Birch. Together, they were the parents of two sons:
Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden (1885–1977), who married three times.
Hon. Claude Hope-Morley (1887–1968), who married Lady Dorothy Mercer-Henderson, a daughter of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire, in 1911.
He died in February 1929, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Geoffrey. Lady Hollenden died in 1945. As the second baron had no male heirs, the subsequent barons were all descended from Lord Hollenden's second son Claude.