Samuel Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden

Samuel Hope Morley, 1st Baron Hollenden DL JP (3 July 1845 – 18 February 1929), was a British businessman.

[1] The Liberal politician Arnold Morley was his younger brother.

[1] His maternal grandfather was Samuel Hope of Liverpool and his paternal grandparents were Sarah (née Poulton) Morley and John Morley, a hosiery manufacturer.

[2] He was a partner in the firm of I. and R. Morley, Wood Street;[3][4] and served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1893 to 1895.

[5] On 9 February 1912, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent.