Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley

Albert Edmund Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley PC, DL, JP (11 June 1843 – 26 February 1905), styled Viscount Boringdon until 1864, was a British peer[1] and Liberal, later Liberal Unionist politician.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as a Lord-in-waiting from 1868 to 1874 and as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1880 to 1885.

[5] In February 1886 he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed First Commissioner of Works,[6] a position he only held until April of the same year.

He broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal Unionists.

[4] From 1889 to 1905 Morley was chairman of committees and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.