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John Morley

1838 - 1923

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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist in the North of England and then editor of the newly Liberal-leaning Pall Mall Gazette from 1880 to 1883, he was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Liberal Party in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895; Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911; and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his hero, William Ewart Gladstone. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Morley is the 10,342nd most popular politician (up from 15,596th in 2019), the 2,304th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,243rd in 2019) and the 362nd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Morley ranks 10,342 out of 19,576. Before him are Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Fernando I, Duke of Braganza, Jacques Georges, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Mstislav III of Kiev, and Francesco Donato. After him are Ronald Inglehart, Hazem El Beblawi, George Mouzalon, Ramón José Velásquez, Hugo Preuß, and Boun Oum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, John Morley ranks 57. Before him are Victoria Woodhull, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Duke Philipp of Württemberg, Jules Dalou, Karl Weyprecht, and Szymon Winawer. After him are Henry Irving, Siegfried Bing, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, Raffaello Giovagnoli, and August Šenoa. Among people deceased in 1923, John Morley ranks 54. Before him are Vatroslav Jagić, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Louis Couperus, George Hendrik Breitner, and Eugène Mougin. After him are Semyon Alapin, Hermes da Fonseca, Fritz Mauthner, Damat Ferid Pasha, Ernst Otto Beckmann, and Alfred Edwards.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Morley ranks 2,304 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernest Bevin (1881), Tom Courtenay (1937), John Stanley (1712), Mike Rutherford (1950), Leonard Woolf (1880), and Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964). After him are Bob Wilson (1941), Roger Hunt (1938), Richard Long (1945), John Major (1467), John Bagot Glubb (1897), and W. V. D. Hodge (1903).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Morley ranks 362. Before him are Erskine Childers (1870), Norman Lamont (1942), Mary McAleese (1951), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Ernest Bevin (1881), and Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964). After him are F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), David Blunkett (1947), William Fox (1812), Ken Tyrrell (1924), Andrew Bertie (1929), and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640).

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