Oliver Cromwell

John Morley (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, was an English statesman, critic, and biographer. He was graduated at Oxford in 1859, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and 1892; and was elected to Parliament in 1883. Considered one of the best biographers of his time, his books include Edmund Burke (1867), Critical Miscellanies (1st series, 1871; 2nd series, 1877), Voltaire (1872), On Compromise (1874), Rousseau (1876), Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), The Life of Richard Cobden (1881), and Aphorisms (1887).