Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 (1886 - 1957), Archbishop of Wales Born 6 June 1886 at the rectory, Llandudno, Caernarfonshire, youngest of the five children of John Morgan, Archdeacon of Bangor, 1902-24. Educated at St. George's National School, Llandudno, the Cathedral School, Llandaff, where he was soloist in the choir, Llandovery College and Hertford College, Oxford, (as an Exhibitioner), and Cuddesdon College. He graduated B.A., 1910, M.A., 1914, Honorary
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
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, 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, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator claimed descent from a ' right worshipful family of Monmouthshire '; D.N.B. surmises this to have been the Morgan family, Llantarnam and David Mathew (Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe, 89), those of Machen, but he cannot be fitted into the pedigree of either family as given in Clark, Limbus, 311-3, 322-3. After education at Oxford (college unknown) and service in the households of the bishop
MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director authorities to offer secondary education in Welsh he founded a Welsh residential school in which every subject was taught through the medium of Welsh. Ysgol Glyndwr was opened in Bryntirion, Laleston near Bridgend, in September 1968, but it came to an end soon after his death in Bridgend Hospital, 3 January 1970. He was buried in Trane cemetery, Tonyrefail, 9 Jan.
MORGAN, WALTER (fl. 1695), author of the Parson's Jewel, 1705, a book of instructions on procedure to be adopted by clergymen on presentation to a benefice. On the title page of this book he styles himself 'vicar de jure of Llhantri-sanct and Chaplain to the Countess Dowager of Peterborough late deceased.' He was, indeed, presented to Llantrisant, 3 April 1695, by Francis Jones of Pentyrch and Rachel, his wife, but a dispute
MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831 - 1916), lord mayor of London Born 3 May 1831, sixth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton, Glasbury, Brecknock - on the family, see Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii, 90. Because of the family's financial losses, several of the sons went up to London, where they were remarkably successful. Walter Vaughan Morgan was for ten years (1846-56) in the service of the National Provincial Bank in various
MORGAN, WILLIAM (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet Born 3 July 1819 at Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer, near Merthyr Tydfil - his mother was a niece to George Lewis, Llanuwchllyn. The family moved to Aberdare when the children were quite young. The son became prominent in Calvinistic Methodist circles in Aberdare and district. He became friendly with John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), after the latter had come to Aberdare to edit Y Gwladgarwr, 1858, and the two men
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
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1790 - 1867), cleric and his Independent neighbour, David Rees (1801 - 1869), should be in a perpetual state of war, and each of them must bear his share of the responsibility for the unfortunate results of their skirmishes about the 'church rates' at Llanelly and Llan-nonn, 1838-40 (Innes, 28-3; Jenkins, Cymru yn y 19eg ganrif, 107-8). But Morris had such an ungovernable temper that it amounted almost to madness; it

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