Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, MORGAN PARRY (1876 - 1964), minister of religion (CM) and powerful preacher . Preaching, however, was his great passion in life. He delivered the Dr. John Williams Memorial Lecture in 1947; the subject of that lecture was ' Preaching '. He was moderator of the General Assembly in 1949. He died 27 December 1964 and was buried in front of the chapel in Blaenannerch. He married, 17 December 1901, Elizabeth Frances Jones, daughter of Samuel and Judith (née Hughes) Jones; they had one
MORGAN, OWEN (Morien; 1836? - 1921), journalist and miscellaneous writer who died on 16 December 1921 (Western Mail), was then said to have been over 80, and to have been a son of Thomas T. Morgan and his wife, Margaret, of Pen-y-graig, Rhondda. He had sedulously concealed his age. But the bishop's transcripts for Ystradyfodwg parish record the christening on 23 February 1836 of ' Owen, son of Thomas and Margaret Owen of Dinas [Rhondda], collier ', and it seems pretty
MORGAN, RHYS (c. 1700 - c. 1775), poet living in the farmhouse of Pencraig-nedd in the parish of Cadoxton in the Vale of Neath. It is possible, although this cannot be proved definitely, that he was one of the descendants of Thomas Llywelyn of Rhigos. Iolo Morganwg says that he was carpenter, weaver, harpist, and a preacher with the Nonconformists. It is tolerably certain that he was a member at the ' Hen dŷ Cwrdd ' ('Old Meeting
MORGAN, RICHARD (1854 - 1939), schoolmaster and naturalist Born at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, 1854, son of Thomas Morgan, shoemaker. He was educated at the Old British School Tal-y-bont, and afterwards at Bangor University College. He held a teaching post at Aberystwyth before he was appointed headmaster of the Llanarmon-yn-Iâl school, a position which he held for nearly forty years during which time he also organised successful evening classes. He was
MORGAN, ROBERT (1621 - 1710), Baptist minister of Llandeilo-tal-y-bont (Pontardulais); born 1621. He attended the so-called general meetings of the Welsh Baptist churches in 1653-4 as a representative of Carmarthen, and signed the proceedings, but it is not certain that he was minister there. The church at Carmarthen did not survive the persecution of the Restoration period, and he became co-pastor with Lewis Thomas (died 1704), The Moor, at
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor Born in 1608 at Bronfraith, Llandysul, Montgomeryshire, the third son of Richard Morgan, an Oxford man who had represented Montgomeryshire in the 1593 parliament. His mother was Mary, daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Gwernbuarth. After studying at home under the father of Simon Lloyd, later archdeacon of Merioneth, he entered Jesus College, Cambridge (6 July 1624), where he graduated B.A. 1628, M.A
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (c. 1542 - 1595), soldier
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister Independent church at Watford, Glamorganshire, and began to preach; we know that he preached at Marshfield, Monmouth, in June 1741. In September 1741, against the wish of Edmund Jones, he went to the school kept by Samuel Jones (fl. 1715-64) at Llanddarog, Carmarthenshire; but in January 1743 moved to the grammar school kept by Samuel Thomas at Carmarthen; on 19 October he entered the Academy there at its
MORGAN, THOMAS (1769 - 1851), navy chaplain
MORGAN, THOMAS (d. 1833), Wesleyan missionary and minister
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator went to the Spanish Netherlands, where the Jesuit faction procured his imprisonment for another three years (1590-2). For the rest of Elizabeth's reign he drifted ineffectually about Europe, and early in James I's he approached Sir Thomas Parry (died 1616), our ambassador in Paris, with plans for reconciling the English Catholics and spiking the Jesuits ' guns. In January 1605 he was accused of
MORGAN, THOMAS (1737 - 1813), Unitarian minister country physician - later on, we are told that he was the first to practise vaccination in Glamorgan. Walter J. Evans, in Ymofynydd, 1900, held that he was the Thomas Morgan who was at Carmarthen Academy, and in receipt of a grant, from mid-1769 till mid-1772. But we have no record of the provenance of this Thomas Morgan (not an uncommon name), and further, the Board in those years made no grants to

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