Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 was a younger son of William Morgan of S. George's and Pen-carn, Glamorganshire. He was about 30 years of age in April 1572 when he was appointed captain of the first company of English volunteers sent to assist the Dutch in their revolt against Spain. Apart from a short period in Ireland in 1574, Morgan spent most of the rest of his life in the Low Countries. He succeeded Sir Humphrey Gilbert as
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister Born 7 January 1720 at Dyffryn-uchaf near Groes-wen, Eglwysilan, Glamorganshire - in 1783 he had a brother, Morgan Thomas, living at Gwerngeiwn, Pontypridd. He was converted by Howel Harris in 1738 or 1739; throughout his life he spoke highly of Harris, and for some years he mingled with the Methodists of his countryside, such as John Belcher and Thomas William of Eglwysilan. He joined (1739) the
MORGAN, THOMAS (1769 - 1851), navy chaplain Born 6 December 1769, son of Philip Morgan of Devynnock, Brecknock - see the article G. E. F. Morgan. He was at Christ College school under David Griffith (1726 - 1816), and went to Wadham and Jesus, Oxford, graduating in 1790 (D.D. 1824). He took orders, and after a breakdown in health became a chaplain in the royal navy. He was at the 'First of June' (1794), in which he was wounded. In 1798 he
MORGAN, THOMAS (d. 1833), Wesleyan missionary and minister
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator Protestant advisers known as Leycester's Commonwealth, of which Walsingham was convinced that Morgan was the principal author; Mary believed it was on this account that Elizabeth's government implicated him in Parry's 'plot' to give grounds for a demand for his extradition. Although Henry III dared not offend Spain by complying, he kept Morgan in the Bastille (1585-90), where he continued his
MORGAN, THOMAS (1737 - 1813), Unitarian minister Born 2 November 1737 in Llan-nonn parish, Carmarthenshire. Extremely little is known about the first thirty years of his life, and what is said of him by William Williams (Carw Coch) in his Gweddillion Llenyddol, 68-86, is inconsistent and also counter to some known facts. At first, Morgan was a weaver [at Cwm Taf Fechan, Brecknock ] and a schoolmaster; he had also some repute as a herbalist and
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
MORGAN, THOMAS (Afanwyson; 1850 - 1939), Baptist minister, historian and littêrateur Born at Cwmafan, 9 March 1850, son of Walter and Jane Morgan and nephew of David Michael (Dewi Afan). He entered Pontypool Baptist College in 1875, and was minister successively at Caersalem, Dowlais (1878-95), Ainon, Cardiff (1895-1900) where he was appointed, with Thomas Powel, to reorganise the Salusbury library in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and finally at Skewen
MORGAN, THOMAS (1752 - 1821), librarian - see MORGAN, THOMAS
MORGAN, THOMAS JOHN (1907 - 1986), Welsh scholar and writer college team and gained first-class honours in Welsh in 1928. Professor Henry Lewis, the head of department would nurture a generation of outstanding researchers in linguistics over the following years and T. J. Morgan was drawn to research the syntax of the verb in Middle Welsh. He spent the academic year 1929-30 in University College Dublin studying Old Irish with Osborn Bergin and he submitted his MA
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

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