Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE (1826 - 1897), politician as one of the members for Denbighshire, his colleague being Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. After the redistribution of 1885 he elected to stand for east Denbighshire, where the Wynn influence had been paramount for nearly two centuries, and won the seat against Sir Watkin's candidature; he held the seat at the elections of 1886 and 1892. In Parliament he took a prominent part in Welsh affairs; in 1869
MORGAN, HENRY (1635? - 1688), buccaneer buccaneer, and on his death Morgan was elected ' admiral ' by his associates. He received privateering commissions from Sir Thomas Modyford, governor of Jamaica, and, in 1668, he sacked Porto Bello with fiendish cruelty. His greatest exploit was his march across the isthmus of Panama and capture of the town of that name in 1671. This embarrassed the British Government, and Modyford was recalled. His
MORGAN, JOHN (1827 - 1903), cleric and author published volumes of English poetry entitled My Welsh Home, written in the metre of ' In Memoriam,' 1870, and A Trip to Fairyland or Happy Wedlock, with other poetical pieces and translations of Welsh hymns, 1896. In 1892 he published Four Biographical Sketches, being studies of bishops Ollivant and Thirlwall, Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, and Sir Thomas Phillips. He was a frequent contributor to Welsh
MORGAN, Sir JOHN (fl. 1688), soldier - see MORGAN, Sir THOMAS
MORGAN, JOHN RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur interests he received very few opportunities of exercising his poetical gift. Much of his work was published, e.g., Llawlyfr y Beibl, 1860, a translation of Joseph Angus, Bible Hand-book, 1854; a handbook for church members under the title of Deddfau Ty Dduw, 1863; Cofiant y Parch. R. D. Roberts, Llwynhendy, 1893; lectures, sermons, and poetry, particularly in Seren Gomer from the 50's onwards; and
MORGAN, JOSEPH BICKERTON (1859 - 1894), geologist and conchologist
MORGAN(N), MAURICE (c. 1725 - 1802), Shakespearian commentator and political writer Shelburne. He served in Quebec from 1768 to 1770. He became under-secretary of state and, in 1782, was in New York acting as secretary to governor Guy Carleton. In 1783 he was secretary to the embassy for peace with America. Morgan wrote several pamphlets on political and social subjects (1758-94) but his best-remembered work is his admirable Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, 1777. He
MORGAN, RICHARD (1854 - 1939), schoolmaster and naturalist an enthusiastic naturalist and Sir Owen M. Edwards described him as ' one of the greatest naturalists Wales has ever produced.' He won three prizes at the national eisteddfod for works on natural history. He not only contributed articles on natural history to Cymru (O.M.E.) and other periodicals but he was also the author of Tro Trwy'r Wig; Llyfr Blodau; Llyfr Adar; Rhamant y Gog Lwydlas, and other
MORGAN, RICHARD (1743 - 1805), Independent minister Born in 1743 at Ystrad-isaf, Ystradgynlais, Brecknock - his parents were members of Cwmllynfell congregation. As apprentice to a wood-turner, he joined the church at Tŷnewydd in the Swansea valley. He began to preach, and went to the school kept by Joseph Simmons, and thence to Abergavenny Academy (1765). On 28 September 1769 he was ordained pastor of Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire, and its
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor the recovery of his Fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford, and the pleas of his 'cousin' Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir for preferment of unsuitable protégés. He died on 1 September 1673; the memorial inscriptions in Bangor cathedral are quoted in Browne Willis, Bangor, 1721, 23, 27-8. He married Anne, daughter of William Lloyd, rector of Llaneilian, and had four sons, three of them educated at Oxford, of
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 (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

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