Francis Morley
1810–83
Businessman. A partner in the pottery business Ridgway, Morley, Wear and Company, 1835. Entered a different pottery partnership and traded as Francis Morley & Co., in Hanley, Staffordshire. Retired in 1862. Purchased Breadsall Priory in Derbyshire, 1860; hired the Hanley architect Robert Scrivener to alter and extend the house.
Sources
David Poole, House and heritage, https://houseandheritage.org/2016/08/12/breadsall-priory/ (accessed 24 November 2017)
Redman 1998, pp. 15–17
Bibliography
Redman, Nick. 1998. An illustrated history of Breadsall Priory. [n.p.]: Whitbread PLC.
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