Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1623 - 1689), Jesuit Born 1623 at Cilcain, Flintshire, son of Henry Morgan and Winefrid Gwynne. He was educated at Westminster School and in 1640 went to Trinity College, Cambridge, according to Foley, although his name does not appear in the registers either of that college or of any other Cambridge college. After two years there, he is said to have been expelled for espousing the cause of king Charles. He was taken
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 (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist William Morgan was born in Newcastle, Bridgend, Glamorgan, on 26 May 1750, the third of eight children and the first son of William Morgan (1708-1772), apothecary and doctor, and his wife Sarah (née Price, 1726-1803), sister of the philosopher Richard Price. The precise date of his birth is given by Caroline Williams, the family biographer and great-niece of William, but the date on his tomb is 6
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary Born 26 May 1750 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, brother of George Cadogan Morgan and nephew of the philosopher Richard Price. He was apprenticed to two apothecaries in London, and was a student at St. Thomas' Hospital. He returned to Bridgend in 1772 to take up his father's practice after his death. He went to London in 1773 where he may have kept a school for a while. In 17 April 1774 Price got
MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician Liberal also stood, he might well have won. He was the Conservative MP for Denbigh, 1959-83, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes. Morgan then resigned after an acrimonious dispute over the nomination for the new Clwyd North West seat. He was noted for very rarely making any speeches in the House during his 24 years as a member. His attendance record was also very poor - he usually put in an
MORGAN-OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN (1879 - 1960), army administrator Born 31 March 1879 son of Timothy Morgan-Owen, H.M.I., Llwynderw, Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, and Emma (née Maddox). He was educated at Arnold House, Llandulas; Shrewsbury School; and Trinity College, Dublin. He joined the Carnarvon Militia in 1899 before entering the army in 1900 and serving with the 24th South Wales Borderers in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal until the end of the
MORRIS, DAVID (1630 - 1703), Roman Catholic priest and informer The son of Walter Morris of Llantilio, Monmouth, and Elizabeth Woodward of Worcestershire. He had a brother who died at S. Omer College, and one of his sisters was a nun at Ghent. He lived for three years in the hostel for Welsh students at Ghent, and entered the English College, Rome, on 16 October 1648, on the same day as Fr. William Morgan, S.J.. He was ordained priest in S. John Lateran, 4
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer Born in 1744 at Lledrod, Cardiganshire, son of Morris Morgan. He is said to have started life as a drover but nothing is known of his religious connections at that time. In 1765, however, he began to exhort in the Methodist societies and soon achieved a reputation as a powerful preacher - one, moreover, who in the course of his travels up and down the country, acquired considerable influence over
MORRIS, VALENTINE (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner blunt answer was 'in ditches'. As a result of his extravagant lifestyle and generosity, his predilection for gambling, and environmental factors in Antigua which adversely affected sugar production, Morris's fortunes became depleted and indebted. His economic downfall was further precipitated by an expensive electoral contest in which he challenged the might of the Morgan family of Tredegar for the
MORUS BERWYN (fl. c. 1553-1615), poet William Morgan and a number of various englynion.
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, father-in-law and bishop William Morgan, the translator of the Bible into Welsh, over the Llanrwst leases. He appears also to have been the most prominent of the deputy-lieutenant s of Flintshire and served in that office at a time when frequent requests and orders came to that county from the Lord President of the Marches. He died 18 August 1642. His eldest son, Thomas Mostyn (c. 1598 - 1641), died in

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