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.