Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
MORGAN, THOMAS REES (1834 - 1897), mechanical engineer and manufacturer, and inventor Born 31 March 1834 at Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire. He worked in the mines until he had an accident, at the age of ten, which resulted in the loss of the left leg below the knee. After the accident he attended schools taught by John Thomas (Ieuan Ddu), Owen Evans, and Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo). He developed, under the tuition of Taliesin Williams, a special fondness for
MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director Born 28 January 1914 at Tonyrefail, Glamorganshire, fifth child of Samuel and Edith (née Richards) Morgan. The father's family came from Peterston-super-Ely and the mother's from Llantwit Fardre. The father, a mason, died in the flu epidemic which swept the country in 1918. The mother struggled to raise the children in great poverty. Both sides of the family were committed Baptists, their
MORGAN, WALTER (fl. 1695), author concerning patronage took place in Chancery and James Harries, presented by the dean and chapter of Gloucester, was in fact instituted, 7 June 1695 (Llandaff Subscription Books, iv), and he remained in undisturbed possession till 1728. It is not certain whether the Walter Morgan included in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, the son of Thomas Morgan of Llandilo, who matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 30 May
MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831 - 1916), lord mayor of London Born 3 May 1831, sixth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton, Glasbury, Brecknock - on the family, see Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii, 90. Because of the family's financial losses, several of the sons went up to London, where they were remarkably successful. Walter Vaughan Morgan was for ten years (1846-56) in the service of the National Provincial Bank in various
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Lloyd, but died s.p. For Morgan's use of Tremellius's Old Testament and his methods as a translator see Isaac Thomas, Yr Hen Destament Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1988) and Y Testament Newydd Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1976). For Morgan's status as a scholar see also R. Geraint Gruffydd, ' The Translating of the Bible into the Welsh Tongue,' 1988.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister Cardigan. He then spent two years at Abergavenny College. Towards the end of 1824 he received a call to Holyhead and was ordained 18 April 1825 - the first Baptist to be ordained in Anglesey; there, he was unequalled except by Christmas Evans. He was, says Robert Jones (1806 - 1896) of Llanllyfni, as able as John Elias, but not as lucid. He joined issue with other able men in Y Bedyddiwr, wrote an elegy
MORGAN, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1584), soldier of fortune son of Sir Thomas Morgan of Pen-coed and Langstone, Glamorganshire, and Cecilia, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea. In 1569 he went to France to fight as a volunteer in the Protestant army. After having been engaged in several skirmishes in that country and in the Netherlands he returned to England in time to join the earl of Essex in his Irish ventures. In 1574 he was knighted by
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist beliefs which 'on all the great points' concurred with Price's philosophy and Unitarian creed. He admits rather coyly 'some doubts' but does not give any details. Through Price, Morgan met a number of the leading intellectuals of the day including Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Howard and John Horne Tooke, and he shared many of their radical views. He was sympathetic to the
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary Born 26 May 1750 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, brother of George Cadogan Morgan and nephew of the philosopher Richard Price. He was apprenticed to two apothecaries in London, and was a student at St. Thomas' Hospital. He returned to Bridgend in 1772 to take up his father's practice after his death. He went to London in 1773 where he may have kept a school for a while. In 17 April 1774 Price got
MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician matters. He held regular constituency surgeries, usually in Denbigh's historic eighteenth-century town hall. In the general election of 1983, he lent support to the Plaid Cymru candidate. In 1984, deprived of his seat, he resigned from the Conservatives and joined the Liberal Party. In the 1989 European elections Morgan urged support for Dafydd Elis Thomas, the Plaid Cymru candidate. Yet he never
MORRICE, JAMES CORNELIUS (1874 - 1953), priest and Welsh scholar Born 10 December 1874 at Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, son of James Cornelius Morrice, engine driver, and his wife Margaret (née Thomas). He was educated at Porthmadog county school and University College Bangor (1897) where he graduated with first-class hon. in Welsh in 1900, the first to do so, it is claimed: he gained his M.A. with a dissertation on ' The poems of William Lleyn ' in 1902

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