The Rt Rev Samuel Morley was Bishop of Tinnevelly at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was born in 1841 into a musical family: a younger brother Felix W. Morley (died August 1915), was organist of

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and conductor of the Cambridge Musical Society. Another, Frederick Morley (c. 1850–1929), was an organist and music teacher in Sydney, Australia; his son F. Barron Morley was a celebrated pianist. Morley was himself a capable violinist. He was educated at

. After curacies at

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and Sandgate, he emigrated to

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as a

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, eventually becoming

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to the Bishop of Madras before his elevation to the

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in 1896. He retired in 1903 and died twenty years later on 6 November 1923.''Deaths: Rt. Rev. S Morley Church Of South India'' Thursday, 8 November 1923; pg. 1; Issue 43493; col A

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morley, Samuel 1841 births Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge English Anglican missionaries 20th-century Anglican bishops in India Anglican bishops of Tinnevelly 1923 deaths Anglican missionaries in India