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See also:MORLEY, See also:SAMUEL (18o9–1886) , See also:English manufacturer and politician, was See also:born at Homerton, not then a See also:part of See also:London, on the 15th of See also:October 1809, the youngest son of a See also:Nottingham hosier. His See also:father, See also:John, and his See also:uncle, See also:Richard, were the founders of the already prosperous Nottingham See also:firm of I. & R. Morley, dealers in See also:hosiery made in the cottages of the See also:local knitters, and as See also:early as 1797 they had opened a London See also:ware-See also:house, in the counting-See also:room of which Samuel Morley began his career at sixteen. On his father's retirement in 184o he became See also:practical See also:head of the London concern, and when his See also:brothers retired in 1855 See also:sole owner. In r86o he was sole owner also of the Nottingham business. Under excellent management the business See also:grew rapidly into the largest of the See also:kind in the See also:world, with huge See also:mills at Nottingham and in See also:Leicestershire and See also:Derbyshire employing thousands of hands. In 1865 Morley was elected
M.P. for Nottingham, and from 1868–1885 he sat for one
of the See also:Bristol divisions. He was a strong Liberal and a
whole-hearted supporter of See also:Gladstone, who in 1885 offered him a See also:peerage. He was one of the See also:principal proprietors of the London Daily See also:News, the See also:chief Liberal See also:organ of the See also:period, and it was owing to him that its See also:price was reduced from 3d. to 1d. and its losses turned to See also:great gains. Morley was a deeply religious See also:man. Like his father before him, he was a See also:Dissenter, and for many years he strongly opposed every See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of See also:state interference with See also:education. He was keenly interested in the See also:temperance See also:movement, and during the closing years of his See also:life his public energies were chiefly confined to its promotion. His philanthropy was active, his charity widespread and munificent, and he was a See also:model employer. He died on the 5th of See also:September 1886. His son, See also:Arnold Morley (b. 1849), was Liberal M.P. for Nottingham from 188o-1885, and for See also:East Nottingham from 1885–1895. From 1886–1892 he was chief Liberal See also:whip, and from 1892–1895 postmaster-See also:general.
See See also:Edwin Hodder, Life of Samuel. Morley (1887) ; See also:Frederic M. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, I. & R. Morley: a See also:Record of a See also:Hundred Years (1900). MORLEY, THOMAS (1557–1603), English musical composer, was born in 1557, as may be gathered from the date of his See also:motet, " Domine non est," composed " aetatis suae 19 See also:anno domini 1576," and preserved in See also:Sadler's Part-Books (Bodleian Library). He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Byrd, but nothing is known as to his origin and very little as to the incidents of his career. In the See also:account of the entertainments given at Elvetham by the See also:earl of See also:Hertford in 1591 in See also:honour of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, it is stated that there was " a notable See also:consort of six Musitions," whose See also:music so pleased the queen " that in See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and favour thereof, she gave
a newe name unto one of their Pavans, made See also:long since by See also:Master Thomas Morley, then Organist of Paules See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church." This statement, however, lacks corroboration, and if Morley ever held the See also:post he must have done so for a very See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. On the 5th of See also:July 1588 he was admitted See also:Mus. Bac. at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. Four years later (July 24, 1592) he entered the See also:Chapel Royal, where he successively filled the offices of epistler and gospeller. From the See also:dedication to his first See also:book of canzonets it seems that in 1595 Morley was married. His wife's See also:Christian name was See also:Margaret, and before her See also:marriage she apparently held some post in the See also:household of See also:Lady Periam, wife of the See also:lord chief See also:baron of the See also:exchequer. On the 11th of September 1598 Morley received a See also:licence for twenty-one years to See also:print ruled music-See also:paper and See also:song-books in English, Latin, See also:French or See also:Italian. His rights under this See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant were assigned by him to various publishers. In See also:Burgon's Life of See also:Gresham it is stated (ii. 465) that the registers of St See also:Helen's, Bishopsgate, show that Morley lived in that See also:parish. This is inaccurate, and there is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that the See also:family of the same name residing in St Helen's between 1594 and 1600 was related to the composer. In the See also:preface to his Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597), Morley gives as one of his reasons for undertaking that See also:work that he led a solitary life, " being compelled to keepe at See also:home," presumably owing to See also:ill See also:health. On the 7th of October 1602 his See also:place in the Chapel Royal was filled up, and on the 25th of October 1603 See also:administration of his goods was granted to his widow. This document (See also:Act Book, 1603, fol. 171) describes him as " See also:late parishioner of St Botolph's near Billingsgate," but the registers of that parish contain no entries See also:relating to him. Morley was incontestably one of the greatest of the See also:secular Elizabethan composers. His madrigals, canzonets and ballets are as remark-able for their beauty as they are for their admirable workmanship, and his Introduction to Practicall Musicke, in spite of its frequent obscurity, is an invaluable source of See also:information as to the state of musical See also:science in See also:England at the end of the 16th See also:century. His See also:works are: (1) Canzonets to Three Voices (1593; 2nd ed., 16o6; 3rd ed., 1631; Ger. trans. : See also:Cassel, 1612, and See also:Rostock, 1624); (2) Madrigals to Four Voices (1594; 2nd ed., 1600); (3) First Book of Ballets to Five Voices (1595; an Ital. ed. appeared in London in the same See also:year; 2nd ed., 'boo; Ger. ed., See also:Nuremberg, 1609); (4) First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices (1595; 2nd ed., 1619); (5) Canzonets or Short Little Songs to Four Voices, selected out of Italian Authors (1597); (6) Canzonets to Five and Six Voices (1597) ; (7) A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597; 2nd ed., 16o8; 3rd ed., 1771); (7) Madrigals to Five Voices, selected out of Italian Authors (1598); (8) The First Book of Consort Lessons, made by See also:divers authors, &c. (1599; 2nd ed., 16t1); (9) The First Book of Airs to Sing and See also:Play to the See also:Lute with the See also:Base See also:Viol (1600); (1o) The Triumphs of Oriana to Five and Six Voices, composed by divers several authors (16or). Besides the above, services, anthems, motets and See also:virginal pieces by Morley are to be found in various collections, both printed and See also:manuscript. (W. B.
End of Article: MORLEY, SAMUEL (18o9–1886)
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