Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Morley, John (d.1776)
MORLEY, JOHN (d. 1776?), medical writer, was grandson and eventual heir of John Morley (1655–1732) [q. v.] of Halstead, Essex (Weight, Essex, i. 466, 470). He died in either December 1776 or January 1777, and was buried with his grandfather in Halstead churchyard (Gent. Mag. 1777, p. 47). By his wife Elizabeth, who survived him, he had three sons: John Jacob, Hildebrand, and Allington; and a daughter, Dorothy, married to Bridges Harvey. To his eldest son he bequeathed as an heirloom the coronation cup and cover of George I. (will proved on 27 Jan. 1777, and registered in P. C. C. 30, Collier).
A method of treating scrofula and kindred diseases having been imparted to Morley, he published it for the public benefit in 'An Essay on the Nature and Cure of Scrophulous Disorders,' 8vo, London, 1767 (11th edit., 1774). The principal cure, it appears, was a preparation of vervain root. He gave advice to all who sought it, without fee.
[Authorities cited; Watt's Bibl. Brit.]