biography
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Morley (of Blackburn), John Morley, 1st Viscount
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| lived:
| (1838–1923)
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| biography:
| Journalist, biographer, and statesman, born in Blackburn, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was called to the bar, but chose literature as a profession. He edited the Fortnightly Review (1867–82) and the Pall Mall Gazette (1880–3). A firm supporter of Gladstone, he was an MP (1883–1908) until his elevation to the peerage, and served as Irish secretary (1886, 1892–5). He later became secretary for India (1905–10), then Lord President of the Council from 1910 until the outbreak of World War 1. His writings include biographies of Voltaire (1872), Rousseau (1876), Diderot (1878), and Gladstone (3 vols, 1903). |
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