John Morley (1838 - 1923) was a nineteenth century English politician belonging to the Liberal Party of his day, and a man who wrote to, and got letters from, Abraham Lincoln. His biography of Oliver Cromwell provides clues to the student of the characters of both men. Cromwell had also been gone over before, by MacCauley and by over a hundred other biographers since. Amongst this mass of erudition, the Morley book still has value for the student of Cromwell. ( )