Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN ap HYWEL (fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon , in Gwynllwg ('Wentloog'); and in 1154 his son, MORGAN AB OWAIN, was recognized by Henry II as lord of Caerleon - this was the Morgan who was killed by Ifor Bach in 1158. He was followed by his brother, IORWERTH AB OWAIN. In 1171 Iorwerth, somehow, fell under the king's displeasure, and lost Caerleon. When (1172) it seemed that the two were once more coming to terms, Iorwerth's son, OWAIN, was
MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive ' for Rediffusion for two and a half years. 1969 saw Morgan walk away from a lucrative contract as the News of the World's rugby correspondent in protest at their serialisation of the memoirs of Christine Keeler, before becoming the first team captain of BBC's iconic 'A Question of Sport' alongside Henry Cooper. In March 1972, aged 41, Morgan travelled to Bad Lippspringe in West Germany to commentate
MORGAN, EDWARD (1783 - 1869), Evangelical cleric and author of David, a translation of some of Williams's verse. He also published Village Sermons (1828), Letters of the Rev. Griffith Jones (1832); a Life of Henry Philips of Coychurch (n.d., but before 1833); Letters, Essays [etc.] of … John Elias (1847); Life and Times of Howel Harris (1852); Brief Memoir of the late Rev. W. Howels (1854); a biography of Richard Bassett (1860); and a biography of his own
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
MORGAN, FRANK ARTHUR (1844 - 1907) Gordon 'Chinese Gordon' (1833-1885), whom he deeply admired. After service at Yichang on the Yangtze he returned to Beijing as acting audit secretary. He returned to Gower in 1885 on long leave in order to rebuild Herbert's Lodge, Bishopston, Gower, a property he had inherited from his uncle Henry John Morgan (1799-1859). He rented Herbert's Lodge to the Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter John Brett and
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, GWENLLIAN ELIZABETH FANNY (1852 - 1939), antiquary . Williams of Tal-y-bont on Usk, and wrote the biography included in the volume Theophilus Jones, Historian. Her major interest, however, was in the poet Henry Vaughan. She discovered many facts concerning his early life, and when, in 1895, she met the American Louise Imogen Gurney (1861 - 1920), another 'specialist' on Vaughan, they agreed to bring out an edition of the poet's works, with biographical and
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, HENRY ARTHUR (1830 - 1912), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge - see MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE
MORGAN, JENKIN (d. 1762), Independent minister The date and place of his birth are unknown; Thomas Rees thought he had good grounds for placing it in the neighbourhood of Caerphilly; Richard Bennett (Blynyddoedd Cyntaf Methodistiaeth, 194-5) thought he hailed from the Vale of Neath, and added that he had been member of Blaen-gwrach congregation under Henry Davies (1696? - 1766). It should be noted, however, that his name does not appear in
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (1604 - 1679), soldier was the son and heir of Lewis Morgan of Llangattock, Monmouth (not the brother of Sir Henry Morgan, as in Clark, Limbus Patrum, 315, but probably his nephew). He inherited lands in Monmouthshire and acquired others, but spent most of his life in England and abroad. At 16, having at that time little knowledge of any language but Welsh, he enlisted in Sir Horace Vere's Protestant volunteer

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