3-039-028 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Movers and Seconders of the Address in the Lords and Commons: Mr. S. Morley, M.P., 1871. 'Samuel Morley, Esq., M.P. for Bristol...is head of the mercantile and manufacturing firm of Messrs. J. and R. Morley, of Wood-street, London. Long before he became a member of the House of Commons, Mr. Morley was a prominent public man, taking a leading part in all political movements having for their object the advance of Liberal principles, in the fullest and most accepted sense of those words. He has been and is especially a representative of the Dissenting interest, whose views he has always advocated, at once with moderation and steady tenacity. Besides, he is well known for a large and comprehensive but judicious benevolence...As Mr. Morley has often spoken in the House, though never at any length, he was not much embarrassed when performing the duty of seconding the Address, and his speech contained so much of point as to be taken out of the region of commonplace often peculiar to that occasion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.