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John Morley (1838–1923)
Morley, John. A distinguished English statesman, editor, biographer, essayist, and critic; born at Blackburn Lancashire, Dec. 24, 1838; died in 1923. He was admitted to the bar in 1873; edited successively the Literary Gazette, the Fortnightly Review, the Pall Mall Gazette, and Macmillan’s Magazine; became Member of Parliament 1883; chief secretary for Ireland 1886, 1892. He wrote lives of Voltaire (1872), Rousseau (1874), Burke (1879), Cobden (1881), Emerson (1884), Sir Robert Walpole (1889); and edited the valuable series known as ‘English Men of Letters’; ‘Life of Gladstone’ (1903); ‘Recollections’ (1917). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).