Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE (1826 - 1897), politician of medicine (1873) at Owens College, Manchester. HENRY ARTHUR MORGAN (1830 - 1912) Education The other brother, born 1 July 1830 at Gothenburg, went from Shrewsbury school to Jesus College, Cambridge, and was a Wrangler, and a Fellow of his college, in which he held almost every office, eventually (1885) becoming master. When he died, 2 September 1912, he had been at Jesus for sixty-three
MORGAN, HENRY ARTHUR (1830 - 1912), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge - see MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE
MORGAN, JOSEPH BICKERTON (1859 - 1894), geologist and conchologist Born 26 June 1859 at Welshpool, son of Arthur J. Morgan. As a youth he became interested in local rocks and took prizes for collections of fossils at national eisteddfodau at Cardiff, 1883, and Caernarvon, 1886. In 1887 he was appointed assistant honorary curator of the Powysland Museum, where he arranged and augmented the geological collections. He was elected Fellow of the Geological Society
MORGAN, ROBERT (1621 - 1710), Baptist minister being David; John, who died at the very beginning of his ministry at Warwick, 12 May 1703, aged 24; Hannah, wife of Arthur Melchior, who is included with her husband and others in a letter of dismission from Swansea to Pennsylvania in 1710; and Robert (or Morgan) who is said to have been a schoolmaster at Horsley Down, London.
MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director close friendship with D.J. Williams (1885 - 1970) and his wife in Fishguard. In World War II he was a conscientious objector on nationalist grounds. In 1943 he married Gwyneth, daughter of Arthur and Mary (née Daniel) Evans of Aberdare, and they had four children. He was a parliamentary candidate for Plaid Cymru in Ogmore in 1945 and in 1946, for Abertillery in 1955, and for Brecon and Radnor in 1966
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist of his eighty-third birthday. He was buried in his family tomb at St Mary's, Hornsey. He was survived by his wife Susannah, née Woodhouse, 1753-1843), whom he married in 1781. They had six children, two of whom predeceased him: Sarah Morgan 1784-1811, Susannah Morgan abt 1788-1855, William Morgan abt 1791-1819, John Morgan 1797-1847, Cadogan Morgan 1798-1862, Arthur Morgan 1801-1870. Arthur joined
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary Arthur was an actuary at the Equitable from 1830 to 1870 and was an F.R.S. Another son, William, who died young was an assistant actuary briefly and a grandson, William, was an assistant actuary from 1870 to 1892.
MORRIS, HAYDN (1891 - 1965), musician composer. He died December 1965 and was buried at Llanelli. He was one of the three prominent composers of the period between the two World Wars who gained their apprenticeship through the National Eisteddfod (the other two were W. Bradwen Jones (WILLIAM ARTHUR JONES) and W. Albert Williams, and over a period of about 40 years he won more than 60 prizes in the composition section at the National
O'CONNELL, HARRY (1886 - ?), seafarer, trade unionist and political activist which took cargoes from port to port, was central to the economy of Cardiff's port, but was in decline by the 1930s. After the implementation of the Act it became increasingly difficult for seafarers of colour to sign on tramp ships, and in campaigning against this discrimination O'Connell liaised with the League of Coloured Peoples, and also Captain Arthur Evans, the Conservative MP for Cardiff South
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario David Ormsby-Gore was born in London on 20 May 1918, the second son of William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore (1885-1964), fourth Baron Harlech, landowner and politician, and his wife Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred (née Gascoigne-Cecil, 1891-1980), a daughter of the fourth Marquess of Salisbury. His older brother and the barony of Harlech's heir presumptive, Owen Gerard Cecil Ormsby-Gore (1916-1935) died
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR (1885 - 1964), politician and banker
OWEN family Bodeon, Bodowen, made, under the leadership of Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, to dethrone the Bulkeleys from the political dictatorship of Anglesey. There is no doubt that Sir Arthur Owen sympathised strongly with the crusade of his neighbour Meyrick, but instead of concentrating on winning the county for the Whigs, he himself was nominated candidate for the Anglesey boroughs and for the Pembrokeshire seat as well, while

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