Short answers, pulled from the story.
Henry Morley (1822-1894) was one of the earliest professors of English literature in Great Britain, holding the chair at University College London from 1865 to 1889. He authored English Writers, a ten-volume history of English writing ending at Shakespeare, and his shorter First Sketch of English Literature reached a circulation of 34,000 copies.
Dickens invited Morley to London in 1850 after reading his satirical articles. Morley became an editor and contributor to Dickens' periodical Household Words, and later worked on its successor All the Year Round.
Henry Morley died on the 14th of May 1894 in Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight. He is buried at Carisbrooke Cemetery.
Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian writer, was among Morley's students at University College London during Morley's tenure as Professor of English Literature.
Morley edited two series: Morley's Universal Library, published from 1883 by George Routledge, and Cassell's National Library, published from 1886 and totalling 209 weekly editions.
Morley was a strong supporter of degrees for women. He backed Annie Leigh Browne when she opened a residence for women students at Byng Place in 1882, a facility that was renamed College Hall in 1886.