Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 (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 (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, 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, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831 - 1916), lord mayor of London
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 (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh held the archdeaconry of St Asaph 'in commendam.' As a bishop, he showed notable zeal in encouraging preaching and rebuilding. His determination to safeguard the temporal possessions of the see led him into sharp conflict with David Holland of Teirdan, and into an even more bitter controversy with Sir John Wynn. He died 10 September 1604. Morgan married Catherine, daughter of George, widow of William

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