1-345-420 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Samuel Morley, abolitionist, political radical, and statesman, c1890. Morley (1809-1886) was the owner of a large and profitable woollen manufacturing business which employed thousands of workers in the East Midlands. Regarded as a model employer, Morley was also an active philanthropist. Politically a Liberal and a strong supporter of Gladstone, he was first elected to Parliament as member for Nottingham in 1865. From 1868-1885 he represented one of the Bristol constituencies. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.