Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (c. 1542 - 1595), soldier colonel of the regiment of English volunteers and acted as governor of Flushing and Bergen-op-Zoom. His principal services were to accustom English soldiers to the use of the musket and to train a school of officers, which included Sir Roger Williams, to carry on his work. Morgan returned to England in 1593, and died at New Fulham on 22 December 1595.
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister re-opening by Evan Davies and Samuel Thomas. His diaries give us a lively picture of the Academy, at work and at play. Morgan was a hard worker, and became a sound scholar; with Evan Davies he became very friendly, but never warmed to Thomas. He was still a Methodist, and would wander around to hear Harris and Rowland, Howel Davies, and Williams of Pantycelyn, when these happened to be in the
MORGAN, THOMAS (1737 - 1813), Unitarian minister Born 2 November 1737 in Llan-nonn parish, Carmarthenshire. Extremely little is known about the first thirty years of his life, and what is said of him by William Williams (Carw Coch) in his Gweddillion Llenyddol, 68-86, is inconsistent and also counter to some known facts. At first, Morgan was a weaver [at Cwm Taf Fechan, Brecknock ] and a schoolmaster; he had also some repute as a herbalist and
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 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 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 (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet were, in the main, responsible for the 'cymanfa ganu' movement which, inaugurated at Aberdare in 1859, spread soon afterwards to various parts of Wales. He married Mary, sister of Noah Morgan Jones (Cymro Gwyllt). David Williams (Alaw Goch) was his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister Ann. He died 7 September 1878, and was buried in Aberdare cemetery.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister , and a Cofiant in memory of Robert Williams of Ruthin, and published Cofiant a Gweithiau Christmas Evans, the profits of which he made over to Evans's widow. His masterpiece, however, was Cysondeb y Ffydd (672 pages). He died of a stroke, 15 September 1872.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist William Morgan was born in Newcastle, Bridgend, Glamorgan, on 26 May 1750, the third of eight children and the first son of William Morgan (1708-1772), apothecary and doctor, and his wife Sarah (née Price, 1726-1803), sister of the philosopher Richard Price. The precise date of his birth is given by Caroline Williams, the family biographer and great-niece of William, but the date on his tomb is 6
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer the common people. He began to get stout when he was still young and this prevented him from touring as much as some of his contemporaries. In 1774, at the request of the Methodists at Tŵr-gwyn, in the parish of Tredreyr, he went to that place to take charge of the society there, and made his home at Pen-y-ffos. Mary, his wife, was buried in 1788 and Williams of Pantycelyn wrote an elegy after her
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1790 - 1867), cleric was already curate - the patron both of Llan-nonn and Llanelly was Rees Goring Thomas, one of the promoters of the Society of National Schools (A History of Carmarthenshire, ii, index). He married (at Llandyfaelog, 2 September 1813), Sarah, daughter of John Williams of Carmarthen, fifth son of the commentator, Peter Williams; there were two daughters of the marriage, and the daughter of one of these

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