Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, JENKIN (d. 1762), Independent minister the North, and as William Prichard had been driven to settle in Anglesey, he too went there. By that time the early concord between Independents and Methodists in North Wales (as elsewhere) had suffered some eclipse. An Independent church was formed, in 1744, at the house of a yeoman named John Owen, Caeau Môn, in Cerrig-Ceinwen parish, and Morgan was ordained as its pastor at Watford
MORGAN, JOHN JAMES (1870 - 1954), minister (Presb.) and author biographies: Hanes Dafydd Morgan a Diwygiad '59 (1906); Cofiant Edward Matthews (1922); Cofiant Evan Phillips (1930); and Hanes Daniel Owen (1936). At the end of his life he published his autobiography and reminiscences in three interesting volumes (1948, 1949 and 1953), under the title A welais ac a glywais.
MORGAN, OWEN (Morien; 1836? - 1921), journalist and miscellaneous writer who died on 16 December 1921 (Western Mail), was then said to have been over 80, and to have been a son of Thomas T. Morgan and his wife, Margaret, of Pen-y-graig, Rhondda. He had sedulously concealed his age. But the bishop's transcripts for Ystradyfodwg parish record the christening on 23 February 1836 of ' Owen, son of Thomas and Margaret Owen of Dinas [Rhondda], collier ', and it seems pretty
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, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor Henblas, Llangristiolus, whose political views he shared. He helped to draft the loyal declaration from Anglesey (14 July 1648), and in a funeral sermon on Owen Holland of Berw (2 December 1656) castigated the 'new and phantastick revelations' of the Puritan preachers (NLW MS 3069B). After the Restoration he recovered his living of Trefdraeth, became archdeacon of Merioneth (24 August 1660), and
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator standing and his pension, while open opposition to the Jesuits and support for the claims of Mary's son raised against him powerful enemies in his own camp. As a counterpoise to the influence of Parsons and Allen he urged the advancement of Owen Lewis, bishop of Cassano, whose views on English affairs he found more acceptable, and sent a Welsh Carthusian to Rome with that object. Expelled from France, he
MORGAN, THOMAS JOHN (1907 - 1986), Welsh scholar and writer well as his work on linguistics T. J. Morgan published extensively on literary topics, especially Daniel Owen, T. Gwynn Jones, T. H. Parry-Williams, and more analytically on literary stylistics, e.g.of the cywydd and awdl (1946-47), Welsh prose (1948) and the poets of the princes (1950); a number of his articles were collected in Ysgrifau Llenyddol (1951). His articles, reviews and adjudications are
MORGAN, THOMAS OWEN (1799 - 1878), barrister-at-law and author
MORGAN, THOMAS REES (1834 - 1897), mechanical engineer and manufacturer, and inventor Born 31 March 1834 at Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire. He worked in the mines until he had an accident, at the age of ten, which resulted in the loss of the left leg below the knee. After the accident he attended schools taught by John Thomas (Ieuan Ddu), Owen Evans, and Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo). He developed, under the tuition of Taliesin Williams, a special fondness for
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister Born early in 1801 near Newport, Pembrokeshire. He was originally an Independent but, about 1818, when he was working for W. Griffiths, minister of Tabor, Dinas Cross, he joined the Baptists and began to preach. He went to the Blaen-y-waun district to learn boot-making but when the church there discovered his talent it sent him for a year to the school kept by William Owen (1789 - 1841) at
MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician punishment. A native Welsh speaker, he was received into the Gorsedd of Bards in 1969. He became a QC in 1971 and was appointed a County Court Recorder in 1972. He voted against British entry into the EEC on 28 October 1971. He married in 1957 J. S. M. Maxwell, and they had four children, two sons and two daughters. They lived at 13 Owen Road, Prescot, Merseyside. On Morgan's retirement from politics, the
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

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