Morley Charles Roberts (29 December 1857 – 8 June 1942)[1] was an English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland.

The next three years were spent in obtaining colonial experience, mostly on sheep stations in New South Wales, and Roberts then returned to London.

For a time he worked in the war office and other government departments, but again went on his travels and had varied occupations in the United States and Canada between 1884 and 1886.

His novel Prey of the Strongest (1906), was the first accurate depiction of British Columbia mills, woods, and gambling halls.

Storm Jameson, who wrote a short biography of Roberts in 1961, considered Time and Thomas Waring to be his best novel.