The Rt Rev Samuel Morley was Bishop of Tinnevelly at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
[1] He was born in 1841 into a musical family: a younger brother Felix W. Morley (died August 1915), was organist of Pembroke College, Cambridge[2] and conductor of the Cambridge Musical Society.
[3] Another, Frederick Morley (c. 1850–1929), was an organist and music teacher in Sydney, Australia; his son F. Barron Morley was a celebrated pianist.
[5][6] After curacies at Ilkeston and Sandgate,[7] he emigrated to India as a CMS missionary, eventually becoming Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Madras before his elevation to the episcopate in 1896.
[8] He retired in 1903 and died twenty years later on 6 November 1923.