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See also:MORLEY [oP See also:BLACKBURN], See also:JOHN MORLEY , See also:VISCOUNT
(1838– ), See also:English statesman and author, was See also:born at See also:Black-See also:burn on the 24th of See also:December 1838, being the son of See also:Jonathan Morley, surgeon. He matriculated at See also:Lincoln See also:College, 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, in 1856, and after taking his degree in 1859 came up to See also:London with the determination of seeking distinction by literature. He almost immediately became editor of the moribund See also:Literary See also:Gazette, which not all his ability could preserve from extinction. Gradually, however, he became known as a philosopher and a See also:Radical, and as one of the ablest and most incisive contributors to the literary and See also:political See also:press of the See also:day. His sympathies as a thinker seem to have been at this 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 chiefly with See also:Positivism, though he never embraced See also:Comte's See also:doctrine in its hierarchical aspects; but he acquired a reputation as an agnostic, which became confirmed in the popular mind when he somewhat aggressively spelt See also:God in one of his essays with a small " g." In 1868 he was editor for a See also:short time of the daily See also:Morning See also:Star, which came to an end in 187o. In 1867 he succeeded G. H. See also:Lewes in the editorship of the Fortnightly See also:Review, which he See also:con-ducted with brilliant success until 1883, when he was elected to See also:parliament; he then assumed in See also:exchange, but not for See also:long, the lighter duties of the editorship of See also:Macmillan's See also:Magazine. He had been connected with Messrs Macmillan since the commencement under his editorship, in 1878, of the "English Men of Letters " See also:series, a collection of See also:biographies of various merit, in which nothing is better than the editor's own contribution in his See also:Life of See also:Edmund See also:Burke, itself an See also:extension of his See also:article in the 9th edition of this See also:encyclopaedia (1876). Since 188o he had also been editor of the See also:Pall Mall Gazette, which had been turned into a Liberal See also:paper (see See also:NEWSPAPERS).
In 1883 Mr Morley, who had twice unsuccessfully attempted to enter parliament, was returned for See also:Newcastle-upon-See also:Tyne at a by-See also:election. The See also:prestige thus acquired led to his presiding over a See also:great Liberal See also:congress at See also:Leeds in the same See also:year; and, although the See also:platform never seemed his natural See also:element, the literary finish of his See also:style and the transparent honesty of his reasoning rapidly gained him a prominent position in the See also:House of See also:Commons. When, in See also:February 1886, Mr See also:Gladstone returned to See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office as a See also:Home Ruler, Mr Morley, who had never before held any public See also:appointment, filled one of the most important posts in the See also:cabinet as secretary for See also:Ireland. He had always expressed his sympathy with the Irish Nationalist See also:movement. He had no opinions to recant, no pledges to explain away. He is credited with an especial See also:influence over Mr Gladstone in the See also:matter of Home See also:Rule, and in particular with having kept him steady in the See also:Bill of 1886 to his See also:original purpose of entirely separating the Irish from the See also:British legislature, a See also:provision which pressure
from their own party afterwards compelled both of them to abandon. After the severe defeat of the Gladstonian party at the See also:general election of 1886, Mr Morley led a life divided between politics and letters until Mr Gladstone's return to See also:power in 1892, when he resumed his former office. He had been re-elected for Newcastle in circumstances entirely See also:honourable to himself, a determined See also:attempt having been made to exclude him in con-sequence of his resistance to an Eight See also:Hours' Labour Bill, of which he disapproved as an undue interference in principle with the rights of adult labour. His constituents showed their appreciation of his integrity by returning him with a See also:majority of 1739; but the resistance to his views on the labour question went on in his See also:constituency, and was assisted by See also:Joseph See also:Cowen's persistent See also:campaign in the See also:principal Newcastle newspaper against the general lines of Mr Morley's somewhat doctrinaire and See also:anti-Imperialistic views on politics. The result was that at the election of 1895 he lost his seat, but soon found another in See also:Scotland, for the See also:Montrose Burghs. He had during the See also:interval taken a leading See also:part in parliament, but his See also:tenure of the See also:chief secretaryship of Ireland was hardly a success. The Irish gentry, of course, made things as difficult for him as possible, and the path of an avowed Home Ruler installed in office at See also:Dublin See also:Castle was beset with pitfalls. In the See also:intestine disputes which agitated the Liberal party during See also:Lord See also:Rosebery's See also:administration, and afterwards, Mr Morley sided with See also:Sir 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:Harcourt, and was the recipient and practically co-signatory of his See also:letter resigning the Liberal leadership in December 1898.
Mr Morley's activities were now again turned to literature, the political views most characteristic of him, on the See also:Boer See also:war in particular, being practically swamped by the overwhelming predominance of Unionism and Imperialism. His occasional speeches, however, denouncing the See also:Government policy towards the Boers and towards the war, though not representing the popular See also:side, always elicited a respectful See also:hearing, if only for the eloquence of their See also:language and the undoubted sincerity of the See also:speaker. As a See also:man of letters his See also:work was practically concluded at this See also:period, and may briefly be characterized. His position as a leading English writer had See also:early been determined by his monographs on See also:Voltaire (1872), See also:Rousseau (1873), See also:Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), Burke (1879), and See also:Walpole (1889). Burke as the See also:champion of See also:sound policy in See also:America and (as Mr Morley See also:deems) of See also:justice in See also:India, Walpole as the pacific See also:minister under-See also:standing the true interests of his See also:country, fired his See also:imagination. His Life of See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell (1900) revises See also:Gardiner as Gardiner revised See also:Carlyle. The Life of See also:Cobden (1881) is an able See also:defence of that statesman's views rather than a See also:critical See also:biography or a real picture of the period. Mr Morley's contributions to political journalism and to literary, ethical and philosophical See also:criticism were numerous and valuable. They show great individuality of See also:character, and recall the See also:personality of John See also:Stuart See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, with whose mode of thought he had many See also:affinities. As in letters, so in politics. A philosophical Radical of a somewhat See also:mid-19thcentury type, and highly suspicious of the later opportunistic reaction (in all its forms) against Cobdenite principles, he yet retained the respect of the majority whom it was his usual See also:fate to find against him in English politics by the indomitable consistency of his principles and by sheer force of character and honesty of conviction and utterance.
After the See also:death of Mr Gladstone Mr Morley was principally engaged upon his biography, until it was published in 1903. Representing as it does so competent a writer's sifting of a See also:mass of material, the Life of Gladstone was a masterly See also:account of the career of the great Liberal statesman; traces of Liberal See also:bias were inevitable but are rarely See also:manifest; and in spite of the a priori unlikelihood of a full appreciation of Mr Gladstone's powerful religious interests from such a See also:quarter, the whole treatment is characterized by sympathy and See also:judgment. Among the See also:coronation honours of 1902, Mr Morley was nominated an original member of the new See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of Merit; and in See also:July 1902 he was presented by Mr See also:Carnegie with the See also:late Lord See also:Acton's valuable library, which, on the loth of See also:October, he in turn gave to the university of See also:Cambridge.
When Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell-Bannerman formed his cabinet at the end of 1905 he was made secretary of See also:state for India. In this position he was conspicuous in May 1907 and afterwards for his firmness in sanctioning extreme See also:measures for dealing with the outbreak in India of alarming symptoms of See also:sedition. Though he was bitterly attacked by some of the more extreme members of the Radical party, on the ground of belying his democratic principles in dealing with India, his See also:action was generally recognized as combining statesmanship with See also:patience; and, though uncompromising in his attitude towards revolutionary propaganda, he showed his popular sympathies by appointing two distinguished native See also:Indians to the See also:council, and taking steps for a decentralization of the administrative government. When Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigned in 1908 and Mr See also:Asquith became See also:prime minister, Mr Morley retained his See also:post in the new cabinet; but it was thought advisable to relieve him of the See also:burden imposed by a seat in the House of Commons, and he was transferred to the upper house, being created a peer with the See also:title of Viscount Morley of Blackburn. His subsequent career at the India office will always be associated with his extensive remodelling (1908–1909) of the See also:system of government in India so as to introduce more fully the representative element (see INDIA). Whatever might be the outcome of this See also:crucial reform, the preparation and See also:execution of Lord Morley's 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 were carried through by him with a statesmanlike and philosophic detachment, and in a spirit of balanced See also:reason, which earned for him the increased respect of all parties in the state. (H.
End of Article: MORLEY [oP BLACKBURN], JOHN MORLEY
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