Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MILLINGCHAMP, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1829), naval chaplain and collector of Oriental manuscripts chaplain on board the ' Superbe,' the flagship of admiral Sir Edward Hughes, which sailed for India early in 1779. Then followed eighteen years in foreign service, Millingchamp leaving the fleet in July 1782 to become chaplain at Fort S. George, Madras. At Madras he started to learn Persian, becoming proficient in the language and collecting Persian and other oriental books and manuscripts (in N.L.W
MILLS, EDWARD (1802 - 1865), popularizer of astronomy Born in 1802, son of Edward and Mary Mills of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and grandson of Henry Mills. He constructed an orrery and travelled all over Wales with it, lecturing on astronomy. In 1850 he published Y Darluniadur Anianyddol, a book on astronomy and geography, illustrated with woodcuts made by himself and his son. He died at Denbigh in 1865.
MILLS, HENRY (1757 - 1820), a pioneer in Welsh congregational singing obstacles in the eyes of elders of the severer sort. Mills did much to improve the congregational singing in the district. He was twice married. Of his first marriage were born (1) Edward, father of John Mills, and of Edward Mills; (2) James (below). Of the second was born Richard Mills. He died on 28 August 1820. His work was carried on by his son JAMES MILLS (1790 - 1844), whose abilities as a conductor
MORGAN family Llantarnam, stones of the abbey, but it appears to have been maintained by Morgan as a place of pilgrimage, and his house was used for the celebration of mass, despite which he became sheriff of his county in 1568 and represented it not only in Mary's Parliaments of 1555 and 1557 but also in Elizabeth's of 1559 and 1571. His son, EDWARD MORGAN (died 1633), succeeded him in the House in 1584 and 1586, and as
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier was the fourth son of Edward Morgan (1530 - 1585) of Pen-carn, Monmouth, and of Frances Leigh of London. His family, a younger branch of the Morgan family of Tredegar, had acquired Pencarn through the marriage of his great-grand-father. Following the military bent of his uncle, Sir Thomas Morgan ' the Warrior ' (died 1595), and his elder brother Sir MATTHEW MORGAN (knighted by Essex at Rouen
MORGAN, EDWARD (1783 - 1869), Evangelical cleric and author
MORGAN, EDWARD (1817 - 1871), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Cwmbelan hamlet, near Llanidloes, 20 September 1817, son of Edward Morgan, farmer and cloth manufacturer. After some time as an assistant in drapers' shops at Llanidloes he entered Bala C.M. College in 1839. In January 1840 he went to Dyffryn Ardudwy as master of the British School; in 1841 he began to preach, returning to Bala in 1842. From 1843 to 1845 he was again schoolmaster at
MORGAN, EDWARD (E.T.; 1880 - 1949), rugby player
MORGAN, EDWARD (d. 1749), vicar - see MORGAN, JOHN
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, EVAN EDWARD (1855 - 1927), antiquary
MORGAN, FRANK ARTHUR (1844 - 1907) in Abercothi (near Carmarthen) and in Gower. Morgan was educated at Sherborne School by Dr Harper (later Principal of Jesus College, Oxford), and was made familiar with the career opportunities of China through his elder brother Charles Edward Morgan (1836-1911), an officer of the 67th Regiment who fought in the second Opium War, taking part in the sack of the Old Summer Palace at Beijing in 1860

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