MORGAN, JOHN (1662 - 1701), cleric and author

Born 1662; a native of Merioneth. Ordained deacon in 1684, and priest in 1685, he was curate of Llanllechid and Aber, Caernarfonshire, from 1685 till 1693(?). He then studied at Oxford, probably till 1697, when he became vicar of Aberconwy (Conway). He is not to be confused with John Morgan, vicar of Matchin (1688? - 1734?), his contemporary. At Conway he wrote his Bloeddnad Ofnadwy yr Utcorn Diweddaf - published (posthumously) in 1704. A copy of this essay and a similar prose work called Ystyriaethau ar y Chwe peth diwethaf, together with a number of his poems - all in his own handwriting - are found in a kind of C.P.B. called ' Llyfr John Morgan ', now in the library, U.C.N.W. (Bangor MS. 421). His prose is of high quality, but his poetry lacks distinction. He died 14 September 1701.

Author

• John Thomas Jones, (1894 - 1975)

Sources

• Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford
• J. C. Morrice, Wales in the Seventeenth Century its literature and men of letters and action (Bangor 1918)
• A. Ivor Pryce, Diocese of Bangor During Three Centuries, seventeenth to nineteenth century inclusive being a digest of the registers of the bishops (1929)
• Conway Parish Register (ed. Alice Hadley)
• J. T. Jones in Y Llenor: cylchgrawn chwarterol dan nawdd cymdeithasau Cymraeg y colegau cenedlaethol, xvii

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• Wikidata: Q18535818

Published date: 1959

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