Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, DAFYDD SIENCYN (1752 - 1844), musician appointed precentor there. He wrote several anthems and hymn-tunes. His anthem 'Teyrnasa, Iesu Mawr,' which had a vogue until the end of the 19th century, was published in Casgliad o Donau, 1843, arranged by J. Ambrose Lloyd, under the title of ' Mercurial '; it was also arranged by D. Emlyn Evans for Cronicl y Cerddor, no. 22. Hymn-tunes by him appeared in Lleuad yr Oes, 1828, Caniadau Seion, and in Swn
MORGAN, DAVID (1814 - 1883), religious revivalist duties at Ysbyty and in March 1868 he was formally invited to accept the pastorate of the church there, Maes-glas Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. He rendered a similar service to the Methodist chapel at Swyddffynnon. In 1865 he married Jane, the youngest daughter of the Reverend Evan Evans, Aber-ffrwd, and settled at Glynberws, where he spent the remainder of his life. They had seven children. He died 27
MORGAN, DAVID THOMAS (c. 1695 - 1746), Jacobite was the son of Thomas and Dorothy Morgan. His father was the second son of William Morgan of Coed-y-gorres, and his mother was the daughter of David Mathew of Llandaff and grand-daughter of Sir Edmund Stradling of S. Donat's. Through his mother he was, therefore, related to the leading gentry of Glamorgan, and through his father he may have been related to the Morgan family of Tredegar. He is
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist belonged to a cultured family and as a young man he was involved in the many educational and cultural activities associated with Capel y Garn, Bow Street. It was his headmaster at Ysgol Rhydypennau, John Evans, who awoke in him an interest in literature. He became an avid reader, learnt the cynganeddion and started to compete in local and regional eisteddfodau, winning his first chair at the age of
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator the judge. After he was registered as a conscientious objector, he decided to join a branch of the Christian Pacifist Forestry and Land Units, (established in Wales by Gwynfor Evans). He was a forester near Llandovery in Carmarthenshire for a year, before moving to work as an orderly in the surgical ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 1941. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1943
MORGAN, JENKIN (d. 1762), Independent minister , Glamorganshire, in June 1746 - Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) was there and Edmund Jones and Lewis Rees preached. Morgan received grants from the Presbyterian Fund Board from 1757 till 1751 and from the Congregational Fund Board from 1747 till 1762. He figures in 1747-50 in Wesley's Journals as having acted as interpreter for Wesley. Soon after 1745 he bought a holding named Tynyraethnen in Cerrig Ceinwen, where
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, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister Independent church at Watford, Glamorganshire, and began to preach; we know that he preached at Marshfield, Monmouth, in June 1741. In September 1741, against the wish of Edmund Jones, he went to the school kept by Samuel Jones (fl. 1715-64) at Llanddarog, Carmarthenshire; but in January 1743 moved to the grammar school kept by Samuel Thomas at Carmarthen; on 19 October he entered the Academy there at its
MORGAN, THOMAS (1737 - 1813), Unitarian minister country physician - later on, we are told that he was the first to practise vaccination in Glamorgan. Walter J. Evans, in Ymofynydd, 1900, held that he was the Thomas Morgan who was at Carmarthen Academy, and in receipt of a grant, from mid-1769 till mid-1772. But we have no record of the provenance of this Thomas Morgan (not an uncommon name), and further, the Board in those years made no grants to
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, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director close friendship with D.J. Williams (1885 - 1970) and his wife in Fishguard. In World War II he was a conscientious objector on nationalist grounds. In 1943 he married Gwyneth, daughter of Arthur and Mary (née Daniel) Evans of Aberdare, and they had four children. He was a parliamentary candidate for Plaid Cymru in Ogmore in 1945 and in 1946, for Abertillery in 1955, and for Brecon and Radnor in 1966
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister Cardigan. He then spent two years at Abergavenny College. Towards the end of 1824 he received a call to Holyhead and was ordained 18 April 1825 - the first Baptist to be ordained in Anglesey; there, he was unequalled except by Christmas Evans. He was, says Robert Jones (1806 - 1896) of Llanllyfni, as able as John Elias, but not as lucid. He joined issue with other able men in Y Bedyddiwr, wrote an elegy

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