John Morley - Politiker

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, , , , (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923), was a statesman, writer and newspaper editor.

Initially a journalist, he was elected a in 1883. He was in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his hero, . Morley is best known for his writings and for his "reputation as the last of the great nineteenth-century Liberals". He opposed imperialism and the . He supported for Ireland. His opposition to British entry into the First World War as an ally of Russia led him to leave government in August 1914.