Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, EVAN (1809 - 1853), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born in 1809, son of Evan Morgan, an elder in the old Zion chapel at Cardiff. He and his brother, Thomas Morgan (1816-1858), were monumental masons. He began to preach in 1830, at the same time as Edward Matthews who was a great friend of the family. In 1841 he was ordained at the Llangeitho association; he had already, in 1836, married Mary Morgan of Clun-hir, Pontardulais. He spent the whole of
MORGAN, GRIFFITH (Guto Nyth-brân; 1700 - 1737), cross-country runner of Llanwynno, Glamorganshire. The few definite facts known of him, together with a mass of fable, will be found in the entertaining book Plwy Llanwynno, by William Glanffrwd Thomas. He is there said to have been born in 1700 at Llwyncelyn, on the southern edge of Llanwynno, above Hafod (near Pontypridd), but his family soon moved to the adjoining Nyth-brân. He died in 1737 - dropping dead after
MORGAN, GWENLLIAN ELIZABETH FANNY (1852 - 1939), antiquary Born at Devynnock 9 April 1852, daughter of Philip Morgan (family pedigree in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iv, 134-6 - and see the article on Thomas Morgan, 1769 - 1851), who was perpetual curate of Pen-pont (1841-64) and of Battle, near Brecon (1859-64), and afterwards, from 1864 till his death in 1868, rector of Llanhamlach. ' Miss Philip Morgan,' as she was
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, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician Rhodri Morgan was born on 29 September 1939 in Cardiff, the second son of Thomas John ('T.J.') Morgan, a university lecturer, and his wife Huana (née Rees, 1906-2005), a teacher. His older brother Prys was born in 1937. The family had a strong academic and political heritage. Huana's father, John Rees, was a parish councillor in Swansea, while her grandfather, Thomas, had been a leading figure in
MORGAN, JENKIN (d. 1762), Independent minister The date and place of his birth are unknown; Thomas Rees thought he had good grounds for placing it in the neighbourhood of Caerphilly; Richard Bennett (Blynyddoedd Cyntaf Methodistiaeth, 194-5) thought he hailed from the Vale of Neath, and added that he had been member of Blaen-gwrach congregation under Henry Davies (1696? - 1766). It should be noted, however, that his name does not appear in
MORGAN, JOHN (1743 - 1801), cleric 1772 he succeeded Evan Evans (1731 - 1789) as curate of Llanberis (the rector of Llan-rug and Llanberis, Peter Bailey Williams resided at Llan-rug); his stipend was £24; he lived at Tŷ-isa, and kept a school at which David Thomas, Dafydd Ddu Eryri (1759 - 1822) was a pupil in 1774. Morgan became so celebrated as a preacher that people flocked to hear him from remote parts. When David Mathias, the
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, JOHN JAMES (1870 - 1954), minister (Presb.) and author Born March 1870 at Glynberws, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Cardiganshire, son of David Morgan ('Y Diwygiwr'; 1814 - 1883) and Jane his wife. He was educated at Ysbyty Ystwyth board school, Ystradmeurig school, Thomas Owens's school, Aberystwyth and Trefeca College. He was ordained in 1894, and served his ministry at Cowbridge, Glamorganshire (1893-95), and Mold, Flintshire (1895-1946). In 1895 he married
MORGAN, JOHN JENKYN (Glanberach; 1875 - 1961), local historian and essayist Born at Bodist Isaf, Glanaman, Carmarthenshire, 10 August 1875, son of Jenkin and Angharad Morgan. He was educated at Brynlloi British school, Glanaman, but began working in Mynydd pit, Cwmaman, when he was 12. He later worked in the Raven tinplate works Glanaman until his retirement in 1930. He married Harriet, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Jones, Brynlloi shop, Glanaman, 5 October 1901. She died
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

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