Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, JOHN LLOYD (1861 - 1944), county court judge Born 13 February 1861 at Carmarthen, son of William Morgan, minister (Congl.) and Professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Rees, Capel Tyddist, Llandeilo. He was educated at Tattenhall (Staffordshire) and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a J.P. for Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Glamorganshire, represented West Carmarthenshire in
MORGAN, JOHN RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur Born 3 August 1822 (but 7 or 17 August according to some sources), at Maes-y-felin, Lisvane, near Cardiff; sixth of twelve children born to Rees Morgan (born 1792) and Mary Edmunds (born 1790) of Maes-y-felin and afterwards of Maes-y-crochan, S. Mellons, his mother being an aunt of Thomas Davies, principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College (1812 - 1895). He received his early education at Lisvane
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, RICHARD (1743 - 1805), Independent minister branches, and died there 10 February 1805, aged 62. He was a diligent, even an excessive, reader, reading the Bible in the original languages daily; in theology he was an uncompromising Calvinist, and would have no truck with the 'reasonableness' of his fellow- Independent John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair. With Morgan Jones (1768 - 1835) of Tre-lech, he conducted energetic missions in the
MORGAN, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1850 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer resigned from pastoral work in 1892 when he was appointed to collect an additional fund for the Bala College. He was secretary to the Bala College committee from 1886 to 1899. He went to live at Bangor, where he died 31 March 1899; he was buried at Towyn, Meironnydd. He married, 23 October 1879 Barbara Elizabeth, daughter of Griffith Jones, Gwyddelfynydd, near Towyn, and granddaughter of Richard Jones
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 both Welsh and English. His sequestration of the rectory of Llandyrnog as an appurtenance of the see led to a bitter lawsuit with Thomas Jones (1622? - 1682), who had retired to the living on dismissal from his chaplaincy to the future James II, and was now left in poverty; otherwise Morgan eschewed controversy, ignoring the conventicles in his diocese, the appeals of Dr. Michael Roberts for help in
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

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