Henry Morley

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Henry Morley

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Morley evidently cut rather an impressive figure. The Revd. Solly, his friend and biographer, recalls a particular incident when this was borne in on him:

In the spring of 1888 my wife and I moved to Bridport, and were visited there by Professor and Mrs. Morley the following August. We all had some days of good holiday, and one incident is worth recording. We returned home one evening through the fields of a certain farmer, and met him and his men carrying hay. Eight years later this same farmer asked me who it was that he had once seen walking with me, and reminded me of an encounter between our respective dogs which recalled this occasion. He had been so struck with the appearance of a fine old English gentleman that he had always wanted to know his name. On being shown a photograph of the Professor, he immediately recognised the figure that had so impressed his memory. [368-69]

Bibliography

Solly, Reverend Henry Shaen. The Life of Henry Morley, LL.D. London: Edwin Arnold, 1898. Now available online on the Internet Archive.

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