Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, HENRY (1635? - 1688), buccaneer Numerous attempts have been made to identify the parents of Henry Morgan, all based on the assumption that he was related to the Morgan familyof Tredegar. These attempts have all proved unsatisfactory. The following entry in the Bristol Apprentice Books (Servants to Foreign Plantations) can be regarded with virtual certainty as referring to him: ' 1655, February 9. Henry Morgan of Abergavenny
MORGAN, HENRY (d. 1559), bishop
MORGAN, GWENLLIAN ELIZABETH FANNY (1852 - 1939), antiquary historical notes. The project was announced as early as 1896, but the two friends died without realizing it. Their large collections, however, were handed over to the late Dr. F. E. Hutchinson, who used them for his standard book Henry Vaughan (1947). The University of Wales conferred an honorary M.A. degree upon Miss Morgan in 1925. She died at Brecon, 7 November 1939.
MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE (1826 - 1897), politician he seconded Henry Richard's resolution on the Welsh evictions after the election of 1868, and in 1870 he introduced the burials bill, permitting any Christian service in a parish churchyard, a direct result of what had happened at the funeral of Henry Rees in the previous year. Osborne Morgan introduced this bill in ten successive sessions until, in 1880, it was passed. In 1870 he also introduced
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1623 - 1689), Jesuit Born 1623 at Cilcain, Flintshire, son of Henry Morgan and Winefrid Gwynne. He was educated at Westminster School and in 1640 went to Trinity College, Cambridge, according to Foley, although his name does not appear in the registers either of that college or of any other Cambridge college. After two years there, he is said to have been expelled for espousing the cause of king Charles. He was taken
PALMER, HENRY (1679 - 1742), Independent minister influential elder at Henllan - he died 1 January 1800, aged 86. Henry Palmer's successor (1746) in the pastorate at Henllan was Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799).
MORGAN, JOHN (d. 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop Trahaearn Morgan. John Morgan was educated at Oxford and became a doctor of laws, probably before the ruin of the Lancastrian cause at Tewkesbury in 1471. His career before Henry VII's accession presents difficulties. The absence of his name from any official records before 1485 and his rapid promotion after that date have led to the suggestion that he 'must have been in exile with Henry Tudor and in his
MORGAN, JENKIN (d. 1762), Independent minister the list of Blaen-gwrach members in 1734, contained in J. Rufus Williams's reprint of ' Henry Davies's Pocket-book ' - and it may be significant that the place of his ordination was Watford, near Caerphilly. Morgan was one of Griffith Jones's 'circulating' schoolmasters. In a letter February 1739 by Lewis Rees, printed by Bennett, Meth. Trefaldwyn Uchaf, 14-16), he kept schools at Llanbryn-mair
THOMAS, STAFFORD HENRY MORGAN (1896 - 1968), minister (Presb.) and poet Born at Glenview, Melin Ifan Ddu, Glamorganshire, 13 July 1896, son of Morgan and Margaret Thomas. His parents moved to Porthmadog and he commenced preaching at Tabernacl church. During World War I he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. He was educated at Porth grammar school, University College, Cardiff (where he graduated), and Bala College. He was ordained in 1923 and served his
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister built a chapel there (lease dated 1743), which is still in use - the first Nonconformist place of worship in the Rhondda region. Davies lived at Eirw (Hafod); he met his death by drowning (O. Morgan, History of Pontypridd and the Rhondda Valleys, 286), being unseated by his frightened horse while fording the Rhondda, in July 1766; the exact date is illegible on his tombstone [but according to the
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, Henry VII, by whom he was knighted, made steward of Machen, sheriff of Gwynllwg and Newport, and constable of Newport (see Howel T. Evans : Wales and the Wars of the Roses). His will is dated 26 October 1491, and he probably died in 1492. Sir John Morgan had ten children, of whom the eldest was Sir MORGAN JOHN, who was knighted after the battle of Blackheath in 1497 and died in 1504. His second son
MORGAN, ELIZABETH (1705 - 1773), gardener years Elizabeth spent her childhood in the rectory at Kingsland where the house is known to have had extensive gardens within a fertile glebe. Undoubtedly the roots of Elizabeth's horticultural interests began here. Her skills in meticulous record keeping would likely have been cultivated within the household of her scholarly family. Elizabeth married Henry Morgan (1704-1780), the heir to Henblas, a

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