Elder brother of Henry Morley. Attended a boarding school in Stony Stratford and one in Chichester; then student at Charterhouse at the time that Thackeray was there (Henry Morley, Early Papers and Some Memories, p. 26). In contrast with his idealistically minded, sometimes impractical younger brother, was apparently a conventional, matter-of-fact man. Considered Henry's becoming a Unitarian a "going to the devil"; sent him long letters of theological argument. On one occasion suggested Henry's joining him in "the wholesale pickle trade". Married in 1843; outlived by his wife (Solly, Life of Henry Morley, pp. 92, 138, 141, et passim).

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.