Samuel Morley (bishop)

The Rt Rev Samuel Morley was Bishop of Tinnevelly at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[1]

He was born in 1841 and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2][3] After curacies at Ilkeston and Sandgate,[4] he emigrated to India as a CMS missionary, eventually becoming Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Madras before his elevation to the Episcopate in 1896. He retired in 1903 and died twenty years later on 6 November 1923.[5]

Notes

  1. The Times, Friday, 21 February 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34819; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  2. "Morley, the Rev. Samuel (MRLY882S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  5. Deaths Rt. Rev. S Morley Church Of South India Thursday, 8 November 1923; pg. 1; Issue 43493; col A
Church of England titles
Preceded by
In abeyance
Bishop of Tinnevelly
1896 1903
Succeeded by
Arthur Acheson Williams
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