MORGAN, THOMAS OWEN (1799 - 1878), barrister-at-law and author

Born 1799, son of Thomas Morgan, gentleman. He was admitted barrister-at-law (as of Lincoln's Inn) but he does not appear to have practised. He was joint-secretary, with Morris Charles Jones, of the Powysland Club when that society was formed in 1867. He was also a member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association and contributed articles to Archæologia Cambrensis - in 1851, 1854, 1856, 1867, one of the two 1867 articles being entitled ' History of the Lordship of Cyfeiliog.' He is best known as the author of A New Guide to Aberystwyth, 1848 (with other editions in 1851, 1859, 1867, 1869, 1870) and A New Guide to Aberdovey … Towyn, Machynlleth (1854, 1863), and The Aberdovey Guide (1863). He is probably the author of A Chronological Summary of the Chief Events in the History of the Castle of Aberystwyth which went to several editions. He had previously published Flora Cereticae Superioris: a Catalogue of plants indigenous in the neighbourhood of Aberystwyth (1849). He was elected mayor of Aberystwyth in 1862 and again in 1863; he was also a deputy-lieutenant for Cardiganshire. He died, at the age of 79, 5 December 1878, at his residence at Goginan, outside Aberystwyth.

Author

• Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)

Sources

• G. Eyre Evans, Aberystwyth and its Court Leet (Aberystwyth 1902) (contains a portrait of T. O. Morgan)
• Bye-Gones, relating to Wales and the Border Counties, 1878, 143

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734513

Published date: 1959

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