Morley
Encyclopedia
Places
United Kingdom- Morley, County DurhamMorley, County DurhamMorley is a village in County Durham, England which is situated five miles to the west of Bishop Auckland.-External links:...
, England - Morley, DerbyshireMorley, DerbyshireMorley is a civil parish within the area of Erewash Borough Council in the English county of Derbyshire, north of Derby It is on the eastern side of Morley Moor, with Morley Smithy to the north. The parish church of St Matthew stands near the Tithe Barn and dovecote of Morley Hall...
, England - Morley, West YorkshireMorley, West YorkshireMorley is a market town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately south-west of Leeds city centre. Together with Drighlington, Gildersome, Churwell, Tingley and East/West Ardsley, the town had a population of 47,579 in...
, England - Morley Saint BotolphMorley Saint BotolphMorley Saint Botolph is a small village in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated 4 km south-west of the town of Wymondham and 23 km south-west of the city of Norwich...
, Norfolk, England - Morley Saint Peter, Norfolk, England
United States
- Morley, IowaMorley, IowaMorley is a city in Jones County, Iowa, United States. The population was 88 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Morley is located at ....
- Morley, MichiganMorley, MichiganMorley is a village in Deerfield Township, Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 495 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
- Morley, MissouriMorley, MissouriMorley is a city in Scott County, Missouri, United States. The population was 792 at the 2000 census. It was surveyed and laid out by John Morley, a railroad engineer in about 1870. During the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century both melons and cotton were important products of...
- Morley, New YorkMorley, New York-Geography:Morley is on the Grasse River, downstream from the Village of Canton, where the river goes through some rapids. Today, Morley is at the junction of St. Lawrence County Routes 14 and 27.-History:...
Elsewhere
- Morley, Western AustraliaMorley, Western AustraliaMorley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, situated approximately northeast of Perth's central business district within the City of Bayswater local government area. It contains the Centro Galleria, Perth's second-largest commercial shopping centre, constructed in 1994. The Morley bus station...
- Morley, AlbertaMorley, AlbertaMorley is a First Nations settlement within the Stoney 142/143/144 Indian reserve in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located along the Canadian Pacific Railway between the Trans-Canada Highway and the Bow River, upstream from Ghost Lake. It has an elevation of .The settlement is located in census...
, Canada - Morley, MeuseMorley, MeuseMorley is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....
, in the Meuse département, France
People with the given name Morley
- Morley CallaghanMorley CallaghanMorley Callaghan, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality.-Biography:...
(1903-1990), Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright and broadcaster - Morley SaferMorley SaferMorley Safer is a Canadian reporter and correspondent for CBS News. He is best known for his long tenure on the newsmagazine 60 Minutes, which began in December 1970.-Life and career:...
(born 1931), Canadian news reporter
People with the surname Morley
- Adrian MorleyAdrian MorleyAdrian Morley is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Europe's Super League...
(born 1977), English rugby league football player - Angela MorleyAngela MorleyAngela Morley was an English composer and conductor. Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1924, and played saxophone in a number of dance bands, and in 1944 became a member of Geraldo's band....
(1924-2009), English composer and conductor - Bert MorleyBert MorleyHerbert "Bert" Morley was an English professional footballer who played at right-back for Grimsby Town and Notts County in the 1900s and 1910s. He also made one appearance for England in 1910.-Football career:...
(1882–1957), English international footballer - Christopher MorleyChristopher MorleyChristopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.-Biography:Christopher Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania...
(1890-1957), American writer and editor - Edward MorleyEdward MorleyEdward Williams Morley was an American scientist famous for the Michelson–Morley experiment.-Biography:...
(1838-1923), American scientist - Eric MorleyEric MorleyEric Douglas Morley was born in Holborn, London, England. He was the founder of the Miss World pageant. He was married to now head of the pageant Julia Morley from 1960.-Life and career:...
(1918-2000), British founder of the Miss World pageant - Felix MorleyFelix MorleyFelix Muskett Morley was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the United States.-Biography:Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, his father being the mathematician Frank Morley. Like his brothers, Christopher and Frank, Felix was educated at Haverford College and enjoyed a Rhodes...
(1894-1982), American journalist - Frank MorleyFrank MorleyFrank Morley was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry...
(1860-1937), British mathematician - Fred MorleyFred MorleyFrederick Morley was a professional cricketer who was reckoned to be the fastest bowler in England during his prime...
(1850-1884), British cricketer - Henry MorleyHenry MorleyHenry Forster Morley was a writer on English literature and one of the earliest Professors of English Literature.-Life:...
(1822-1894), British writer - Henry Morley (cricketer)Henry Morley (cricketer)Henry Morley was an English cricketer who played for Sussex County from 1815 to 1838, and also played one match for Kent and Sussex in 1836....
(1785-1857), English cricketer - Jack MorleyJack MorleyJohn 'Jack' Cuthbert Morley was a Welsh international rugby wing who played rugby union for Newport and rugby league with Wigan...
(1909-1972), Welsh rugby player - John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of BlackburnJohn Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of BlackburnJohn Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883...
(1838-1923), British politician and Secretary of State for India - John David MorleyJohn David Morley-Early life:The third and youngest child of the artist and sculptor Patricia Morley and John Arthur Elwell Morley, an officer in the British Colonial Service, John David Victor Morley was born “in something of a hurry on a bench in a third-class Chinese ward at the Kandang Kerbau Maternity...
(born 1948), English novelist - Karen MorleyKaren Morley-Life and career:Born Mildred Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, Morley lived there until she was thirteen years old. When she came to Hollywood, she attended Hollywood High School, and she later graduated from UCLA....
(1909-2003), American actor and political activist - Lawrence MorleyLawrence MorleyLawrence Morley, Ph.D. is a Canadian geophysicist. He is best known for his studies on the magnetic properties of ocean crust and their effect on plate tectonics.-Biography:Morley worked with Britons Fred Vine and Drummond Matthews...
(born 1920), Canadian geophysicist - Lewis MorleyLewis MorleyLewis Morley, born in Hong Kong, 1925, to English and Chinese parents, is a photographer. He was interned in Stanley Internment Camp during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong between 1941 and 1945, when he was released and went to the United Kingdom with his family. He studied at Twickenham Art...
(born 1925), English photographer - Luke MorleyLuke MorleyLuke Morley is the lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the rock band The Union. From 1989 to 2009 he was the guitarist, chief songwriter and producer for the hard rock band Thunder...
(born 1960), English musician - Malcolm MorleyMalcolm MorleyMalcolm Morley is an English artist now living in the United States. He is best known as a photorealist.-Early life:Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison...
(born 1931), British-American artist - Michael D. MorleyMichael D. MorleyMichael Darwin Morley is an American mathematician, currently professor emeritus at Cornell University.His research is in advanced mathematical logic and model theory, and he is best known for Morley's categoricity theorem, which he proved in his Ph.D. thesis "Categoricity in Power" in 1962.His...
, American mathematician - Nathan MorleyNathan MorleyNathan Morley is a multi award winning television presenter, columnist and journalist based in Finland and Cyprus.He is best known to international audiences for his live radio broadcasts on Talksport, LBC and the BBC to the United Kingdom...
(born 1974), British television journalist and host - Paul MorleyPaul MorleyPaul Morley is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications...
(born 1957), British journalist of the music scene - Peter Morley (filmmaker)Peter Morley (filmmaker)Peter Morley, OBE is a German-born British television producer and documentary filmmaker. As a nine-year old child, he fled Nazi Germany with his elder siblings and moved to England, where he has lived ever since...
, German-born British documentary filmmaker - Robert MorleyRobert MorleyRobert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBE was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment...
(1908-1992), British actor - Sean MorleySean MorleySean Allen Morley is a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name Val Venis, during his time with World Wrestling Federation, later known as World Wrestling Entertainment...
(born 1971), Canadian wrestler - Steve MorleySteve MorleySteven Joseph Morley is a offensive lineman for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted with the first overall pick in the 2003 CFL Draft by the Calgary Stampeders...
(born 1981), Canadian football player - Sylvanus MorleySylvanus MorleySylvanus Griswold Morley was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar who made significant contributions toward the study of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early twentieth century....
(1883-1948), American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar - Thomas MorleyThomas MorleyThomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England and an organist at St Paul's Cathedral...
(1557 or 1558-1602), English composer - Trevor MorleyTrevor MorleyTrevor Morley is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.-Playing career:Morley played for Northampton Town, having previously seen non-league football with Corby Town and Nuneaton Borough...
(born 1961), English football player
Other uses
- Electoral district of MorleyElectoral district of MorleyMorley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.Morley existed as an electoral district from 1974 to 1996, and was restored as an electorate name in 2008...
, an electorate of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly - Morley (cigarette)Morley (cigarette)Morley is a fictional brand of cigarette that has appeared in various television shows, films, and even video games that otherwise have no connections to each other. The iconic, fictional brand resembles the actual, original Marlboro brand of cigarettes...
, a fictional brand of cigarettes seen in many films and television shows - Morley Fund ManagementMorley Fund ManagementAviva Investors is an asset management company and is part of the Aviva group. It has global assets under management of over £235 billion, including:...
, a UK-based asset management company - Morley PedalsMorley PedalsMorley Pedals is the name of a guitar effects pedal company, famous for manufacturing wah-wah pedals and other treadle type effects for guitar. Morley pedals use electro-optical circuitry rather than a potentiometer to control the effect. The foot treadle controls a shutter inside the pedal that...
, a brand of guitar effects pedals - Morley rankMorley rankIn mathematical logic, Morley rank, introduced by , is a means of measuring the size of a subset of a model of a theory, generalizing the notion of dimension in algebraic geometry.-Definition:Fix a theory T with a model M...
, occurs in model theory, a branch of mathematical logic - Morley R.F.C., rugby union club in Morley, West Yorkshire
UK Parliament constituencies
- Morley and Rothwell (UK Parliament constituency) (current)
- Morley and Leeds South (UK Parliament constituency) (former)
- Morley (UK Parliament constituency)Morley (UK Parliament constituency)Morley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system....
(former) - Batley and Morley (UK Parliament constituency)Batley and Morley (UK Parliament constituency)Batley and Morley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Batley and Morley in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
(former) - Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)Morley and Outwood is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
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