Samuel Morley (bishop)

The Rt Rev Samuel Morley was Bishop of Tinnevelly at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

He was born in 1841 and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After curacies at Ilkeston and Sandgate, 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. He retired in 1903 and died twenty years later on 6 November 1923.