(George), bishop of Winchester, was the son of Francis Morley, Esq; and was born at London in 1597. He was educated at Christ-church, Oxford, of which he had the canonry in 1641, and the next year was made doctor of divinity. He had also several church-preferments, of which he was deprived by the parliament visitors in the beginning of the year 1648. After this, king Charles I. sent for him to assist at the treaty of the Isle of Wight. After the king's death he attended the lord Capel at his execution, and then retired to Charles II. at the Hague, on whom he constantly waited till his majesty went to Scotland, when he retired to Antwerp, where he read the service of the church of England, as he afterwards did at Breda. At the Restoration he was first made dean of Christ-church, and in 1660 was consecrated bishop of Worcester, and soon after was made dean of the royal chapel. In 1662 he was translated to the bishopric of Winchester, when he bestowed considerable sums on that see, in repairing Farnham-castle and his palace at Westmister, and in purchasing Winchester-house at Chelsea. He died at Farnham-castle in 1684. He was a Calvinist, and before the wars was thought a friend to the Puritans; but after his promotion, he took care to free himself from all suspicions of that kind. He was a pious and charitable man, of a very exemplary life, but extremely passionate. He published, 1. Epistolae apologeticae et paracriticae ad theologum quendam Belgam scripta, in 4to. 2. The sum of a short conference between Father Darcey a Jesuit, and Dr Morley at Brussels. 3. An argument drawn from the evidence and certainty of sense against the doctrine of Transubstantiation. 4. A letter to Anne duchess of York. 5. Several sermons, and other pieces.