Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden (28 January 1885 – 19 October 1977), was a British aristocrat who served as

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Early life

He was the son of Samuel Hope Morley and Laura Marianne (née Birch) Morley.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, His father, a banker and

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, was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of

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, on 9 February 1912. His paternal grandparents were Samuel Morley, a member of parliament, and Rebekah Maria Hope, and his uncle was

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. His maternal grandfather was the Rev. G. Royds Birch. His younger brother, Hon. Claude Hope-Morley, was married to Lady Dorothy Mercer-Henderson, daughter of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire. He was educated at

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before attending

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in Cambridgeshire.

Career

In 1917, while living at 7 Connaught Place, London, he succeeded Henry Alexander Trotter to become the

(a position his father held from 1893 to 1894). Morley was succeeded by The Rt. Hon. Frederick Huth Jackson. On 18 February 1929, he succeeded to the barony upon his father's death and on 24 October 1923, he had his name legally changed to Geoffrey Hope-Morley by

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. In 1927, he was a Justice of the Peace and in 1929, he was serving as the president of the Wholesale Textile Association.

Personal life

Lord Hollenden was married three times. His first marriage was on 12 December 1914 to the Hon. Mary Sidney Katharine Almina Gardner (1896–1994), the third daughter of

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and Lady Winifred (herself the daughter of

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). Before their divorce in 1928, they were the parents of two daughters: * Hon. Mary Joan Fenella Hope-Morley (1915–2015), who married David Babington Smith, son of Sir

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and Lady Elisabeth Mary Bruce (daughter of the 9th Earl of Elgin) in 1941. * Hon. Elspeth Rachel Marianne Winifred Hope Hope-Morley (1917–1989), who married diplomat Sir David Francis Muirhead in 1942.MUIRHEAD, Sir David (Francis)
Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2012 On 6 May 1929, he married for the second time to Muriel Ivy Gladstone, daughter of

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and niece of the late

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, the former

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. Her mother, Gertrude (née Miller) Gladstone, was the first daughter of Sir Charles Miller, 7th Baronet. Baroness Hollenden died on 6 June 1962. His third and final marriage was on 7 January 1963 to Violet Norris (née Leverton) Howitt, the daughter of Alfred Leverton and widow of Frank Dutch Howitt. Baron Hollenden died at age 92 on 19 October 1977. As he died without direct male issue, he was succeeded in the barony by his nephew, Gordon Hope-Morley, the only son of his younger brother, Hon. Claude Hope-Morley.

Arms

References

External links

Geoffrey Hope Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden (1885–1977), High Sheriff of the County of London
at the

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, London. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollenden, Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron 1885 births 1977 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 2 High sheriffs of the County of London English justices of the peace People educated at Eton College