Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden

Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden (28 January 1885 – 19 October 1977), was a British aristocrat who served as High Sheriff of the County of London.

Early life He was the son of Samuel Hope Morley and Laura Marianne (née Birch) Morley. His father, a banker and Governor of the Bank of England, was raised to the peerage as Baron Hollenden, of Leigh in the County of Kent, on 9 February 1912. His paternal grandparents were Samuel Morley, a member of parliament, and Rebekah Maria Hope, and his uncle was Liberal politician Arnold Morley. His maternal grandfather was the Rev. G. Royds Birch.

He was educated at Eton College in Windsor before attending Trinity College, Cambridge in Cambridgeshire. to become the High Sheriff of the County of London (a position his father held from 1893 to 1894). Morley was succeeded by The Rt. Hon. Frederick Huth Jackson.

On 18 February 1929, he succeeded to the barony upon his father's death and on 24 October 1923, he had his name legally changed to Geoffrey Hope-Morley by deed poll.

In 1927, he was a Justice of the Peace and in 1929, he was serving as the president of the Wholesale Textile Association.

Hon. Mary Joan Fenella Hope-Morley (1915–2015), who married David Babington Smith, son of Sir Henry Babington Smith and Lady Elisabeth Mary Bruce (daughter of the 9th Earl of Elgin) in 1941. Hon. Elspeth Rachel Marianne Winifred Hope Hope-Morley (1917–1989), who married diplomat Sir David Francis Muirhead in 1942.

On 6 May 1929, he married for the second time to Muriel Ivy Gladstone, daughter of Sir John Gladstone, 4th Baronet and niece of the late William Ewart Gladstone, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Her mother, Gertrude (née Miller) Gladstone, was the first daughter of Sir Charles Miller, 7th Baronet. Baroness Hollenden died on 6 June 1962.