Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, EDWARD (E.T.; 1880 - 1949), rugby player Born 22 May 1880 at Aber-nant, Cynon valley, Glamorganshire, and educated at Christ College Brecon and Guy's Hospital, London. Dr ' Teddy ' (thus ' E.T.') Morgan scored the most historic try in the history of the game in Wales, if not the most remarkable one ever. It was his try which secured a 3-0 win for Wales over the All Blacks of New Zealand in Cardiff on 16 December 1905. Not only was he
MORGAN, ELIZABETH (1705 - 1773), gardener 3,000 acre estate on the Isle of Anglesey, on 3 August 1732 at Kingsland church. Close ecclesiastical ties had long existed between the dioceses of Bangor and Hereford. Henry was the son of a Chancellor of Bangor and the grandson of Robert Morgan, Bishop of Bangor. Elizabeth's £2,000 marital settlement would have injected much needed funds to fulfil their combined aspirations for enhancing the estate
MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE (1826 - 1897), politician Contemporary, Fortnightly, and Nineteenth Century, and translated Virgil's Eclogues. He was made a baronet in 1892. He died 25 August 1897, and was buried at Llantysilio, Llangollen. He married, 1856, Emily, daughter of Leopold Reiss, Eccles; they had no children. JOHN EDWARD MORGAN M.D. (1828 - 1892), professor of medicine Medicine One of George Osborne Morgan's brothers who died 4 May 1892, was professor
MORGAN, JENKIN (d. 1762), Independent minister was the house in which Evan Williams (1719 - 1748) of Cwmllynfell, later on, was hidden in a chest from his persecutors. In February 1742 Morgan and Richard Tibbott were arrested as vagabonds and sent back to their native parishes, being locked up for the night at each shire town on their way (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, iv, 13-14, i, 25). But Jenkin Morgan returned to
MORGAN, JOHN JENKYN (Glanberach; 1875 - 1961), local historian and essayist 25 November 1956 at a service in Bryn Seion chapel, Glanaman : she was a sister of the ministers, W. Glasnant Jones, Dafydd G. Jones and E. Aman Jones. They had 4 children. In an underprivileged age J.J. Morgan took advantage of every opportunity to develop his abilities. He was a cultured man and through his close friendship with Richard Williams ('Gwydderig'), he became a keen follower of
MORGAN, JOHN RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur Born 3 August 1822 (but 7 or 17 August according to some sources), at Maes-y-felin, Lisvane, near Cardiff; sixth of twelve children born to Rees Morgan (born 1792) and Mary Edmunds (born 1790) of Maes-y-felin and afterwards of Maes-y-crochan, S. Mellons, his mother being an aunt of Thomas Davies, principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College (1812 - 1895). He received his early education at Lisvane
MORGAN(N), MAURICE (c. 1725 - 1802), Shakespearian commentator and political writer fell into ruins about 1740-50 and that the brothers were the last of the family. It is not impossible that he was the son of Morris Morgan of Blaenbylan (by Hannah his wife) whose will (in N.L.W.), dated 25 May 1725, provided for the education of his three young children - Sarah, Morris, and David. In October 1766 he was appointed clerk in the secretary of state's office and private secretary to
MORGAN, PHILIP (d. 1435), bishop of Worcester (1419) and of Ely (1426) a bishop he was vigilant in putting down clerical abuses. In the autumn parliament of 1429 a suit against the abbot of Strata Florida was referred to him. He died at Bishop's Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 25 October 1435, and was buried in the church of the Charterhouse in London.
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister - a Calvinist, though a 'low' Calvinist, he remained throughout his life. But his scholarly temperament bred moderation. He was a wide reader, and between 1745 and 1765 contributed frequently to the Gentleman's Magazine. On 25 June 1746 he was ordained pastor of the large and far-flung congregation of Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire. He was perfectly happy and successful there, but his stipend was
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator claimed descent from a ' right worshipful family of Monmouthshire '; D.N.B. surmises this to have been the Morgan family, Llantarnam and David Mathew (Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe, 89), those of Machen, but he cannot be fitted into the pedigree of either family as given in Clark, Limbus, 311-3, 322-3. After education at Oxford (college unknown) and service in the households of the bishop
MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director authorities to offer secondary education in Welsh he founded a Welsh residential school in which every subject was taught through the medium of Welsh. Ysgol Glyndwr was opened in Bryntirion, Laleston near Bridgend, in September 1968, but it came to an end soon after his death in Bridgend Hospital, 3 January 1970. He was buried in Trane cemetery, Tonyrefail, 9 Jan.
MORGAN, WALTER (fl. 1695), author of the Parson's Jewel, 1705, a book of instructions on procedure to be adopted by clergymen on presentation to a benefice. On the title page of this book he styles himself 'vicar de jure of Llhantri-sanct and Chaplain to the Countess Dowager of Peterborough late deceased.' He was, indeed, presented to Llantrisant, 3 April 1695, by Francis Jones of Pentyrch and Rachel, his wife, but a dispute

Search results

529 - 540 of 953 for "首开股份2026年3月25日盯盘标准"