Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley JP (19 April 1877 – 10 October 1951), styled Viscount Boringdon from his birth until 1905, was a British peer and Devon landowner.
His career at Eton came to an end after only two years, following an attack of scarlet fever, with his head master writing witheringly of him "Spelling ludicrous; even in words of one syllable the order of letters is often reversed".
Fortunately, this was an age when difficulty in reading and writing was no obstacle to gaining entry to Cambridge,[2] and Boringdon graduated Bachelor of Arts in due course.
[1] Boringdon succeeded his father as Earl of Morley on 26 February 1905 and took his seat on the Liberal Unionist benches in the House of Lords.
[3] He later joined the Territorial Forces Reserve, in which he rose to the rank of captain, and was a Justice of the Peace for Devon.