MORGAN, EVAN EDWARD (1855 - 1927), antiquary

Name: Evan Edward Morgan
Date of birth: 1855
Date of death: 1927
Gender: Male
Occupation: antiquary
Area of activity: History and Culture; Scholarship and Languages
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins

Born at Parc-y-brain, Brwynllys (' Bronllys '), Brecknock, son of a schoolmaster. By profession a land-surveyor (he was in the service of the Ordnance Survey, and afterwards in the Land Valuation Office at Brecon), he developed antiquarian tastes, and wrote much on Brecknock antiquities in the local journals. He was the first to arrange and catalogue (1894) the invaluable manuscripts so badly cared for at Trevecka, and thus he laid the foundation upon which M. H. Jones afterwards built. He died 21 April 1927, aged 72, and was buried at Brwynllys.

Author

Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1927, 413
information from Mr. P. H. Evans (formerly of Brecon)
personal acquaintance

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20733018

Published date: 1959

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