MORGAN, GEORGE CADOGAN (1754 - 1798), Arian minister and tutor, and scientist
Date of birth: 1754
Date of death: 1798
Parent: Sarah Morgan (née Price)
Parent: William Morgan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Arian minister and tutor, and scientist
Area of activity: Education; Religion; Science and Mathematics
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
Born in 1754 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, second son of William Morgan, physician, and his wife Sarah, who was a sister of Richard Price the philosopher - another of their sons was William Morgan (1750 - 1833). From Cowbridge school he went up, in 1771, to Jesus College, Oxford, intending to take Anglican orders, but he changed his theological views and went to Hoxton Academy. He was minister at Norwich (1776-85) and at Yarmouth (1785-6); then he became assistant to his uncle Richard Price at Hackney Academy. He resigned in 1791 and became a private tutor; he won some fame as a lecturer on science. Like his uncle (whose biography he began to write), he was a Radical, and he visited France in 1789. He died 17 November 1798.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- Caroline E. Williams (ed.), A Welsh family from the beginning of the 18th century (London 1885)
- D. Lleufer Thomas, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: George Cadogan Morgan
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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