Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur and Caerphilly, and after having been baptized in the period 1840-1 (by whom, it is not certain), he entered Pontypool Baptist College in 1842 and was ordained in 1846 at Bangor. In 1848 he moved to Aberavon, where his talents began to show distinct signs of development, and finally to Zion, Llanelly, in 1855 where he remained till his death, 14 March, 1900. He was buried in the public cemetery at
MORGAN, JOSEPH BICKERTON (1859 - 1894), geologist and conchologist lectures at the Welshpool School of Art. He gained a free studentship at the Royal College of Science (1892) and was awarded the Murchison medal, but failing health compelled him to retire to the Isle of Wight where he died at Ventnor, 8 March 1894. Contemporary geologists regarded his early death as a great loss to their science.
MORGAN(N), MAURICE (c. 1725 - 1802), Shakespearian commentator and political writer died at Knightsbridge, 28 March 1802.
MORGAN, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1850 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer resigned from pastoral work in 1892 when he was appointed to collect an additional fund for the Bala College. He was secretary to the Bala College committee from 1886 to 1899. He went to live at Bangor, where he died 31 March 1899; he was buried at Towyn, Meironnydd. He married, 23 October 1879 Barbara Elizabeth, daughter of Griffith Jones, Gwyddelfynydd, near Towyn, and granddaughter of Richard Jones
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (1604 - 1679), soldier 1645), helped in the capture of Chepstow (October 1645) and Hereford (22 December 1645), and made several incursions into Monmouthshire, in the course of which he was able to discourage recruiting for the king and to gain new adherents for Parliament. After helping to defeat the last Royalist army in the field at Stow-on-the-wold (22 March 1646), he returned to Monmouthshire as commander-in-chief (2
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator of Exeter and the archbishop of York (1561-8), he was recommended in 1569 by the earls of Pembroke and Northumberland to the service of George Talbot, 6th earl of Shrewsbury, at whose house at Tutbury, Mary Queen of Scots was then a prisoner. Morgan attached himself to the queen, conveyed her secret letters, and after examination by the council (15 March 1572) was imprisoned in the Tower for nine
MORGAN, THOMAS (Afanwyson; 1850 - 1939), Baptist minister, historian and littêrateur Born at Cwmafan, 9 March 1850, son of Walter and Jane Morgan and nephew of David Michael (Dewi Afan). He entered Pontypool Baptist College in 1875, and was minister successively at Caersalem, Dowlais (1878-95), Ainon, Cardiff (1895-1900) where he was appointed, with Thomas Powel, to reorganise the Salusbury library in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and finally at Skewen
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-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 agency of Israel Tonge, Oates's fellow-informer, to substantiate the charges brought against the Jesuits by another Roman Catholic priest, Dr. John Sergeant. He became known as Sergeant's fidus Achates. They swore false evidence against the Jesuits before the Privy Council, 18 February 1680, and their informations were ordered to be printed by the House of Commons on 26 March 1681. For his
MORRIS, JOHN RICHARD (1879 - 1970), bookseller, writer Born 13 August 1879, son of Richard Morris, a quarryman, who died 6 March 1884 at Ebeneser, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, and Jane his wife, who remarried. He attended Penisa'r-waun and Llanrug schools, though the Sunday school and the Band of Hope also played an important part in his education. At eleven years of age he went to work on his uncle's smallholding for two years, and after seven

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