Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, JOHN (1827 - 1903), cleric and author , 1852-75, and finally rector of the consolidated parishes of Llanilid and Llanharan from 1875 till his death. As a preacher he was equally at home in both Welsh and English and his printed sermons in both languages contain the best examples of his prose. He translated portions of Anacreon and of ' Chevy Chase ' into Welsh, and rendered the hymns of William Williams, Pantycelyn, into English. He also
MORGAN, JOHN LLOYD (1861 - 1944), county court judge Born 13 February 1861 at Carmarthen, son of William Morgan, minister (Congl.) and Professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Rees, Capel Tyddist, Llandeilo. He was educated at Tattenhall (Staffordshire) and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a J.P. for Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Glamorganshire, represented West Carmarthenshire in
MORGAN(N), MAURICE (c. 1725 - 1802), Shakespearian commentator and political writer was descended from the ancient family of Morgan of Blaenbylan in the parish of Clydey, Pembrokeshire, who traced his ancestry, according to a pedigree by William Lewes the antiquarian (Bronwydd MS. 7170), to Llewelyn ap Gwilym of Cryngae (who was an uncle to Dafydd ap Gwilym) and Ednyfed Fychan. Fenton, who knew him and his brother William, states that he was brought up at the family home which
MORGAN, REES (1764 - 1847), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born at Capel-hir, Talley, Carmarthenshire, son of Morgan Rees who was a member of the Methodist society at Glanyrafon-ddu Ganol. His spiritual regeneration took place under the ministry of William Lloyd of Caeo (1741 - 1808) who, thereafter, was his firm friend. He began to exhort c. 1784-5, and from that time on spent the whole of his long life in the field, travelling over the whole of Wales
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor . 1631, B.D. 1638, D.D. 1661. Ordained in December 1629, by the bishop of Peterborough, he became chaplain (1631) to David Dolben, bishop of Bangor, who presented him to a Montgomeryshire vicarage and two sinecure rectories in Denbighshire. On Dolben's death (1632) he returned to Cambridge (S.Johns) till 1637, when he became chaplain to William Roberts (1585 - 1665), bishop of Bangor, and acquired an
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (c. 1542 - 1595), soldier was a younger son of William Morgan of S. George's and Pen-carn, Glamorganshire. He was about 30 years of age in April 1572 when he was appointed captain of the first company of English volunteers sent to assist the Dutch in their revolt against Spain. Apart from a short period in Ireland in 1574, Morgan spent most of the rest of his life in the Low Countries. He succeeded Sir Humphrey Gilbert as
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister Born 7 January 1720 at Dyffryn-uchaf near Groes-wen, Eglwysilan, Glamorganshire - in 1783 he had a brother, Morgan Thomas, living at Gwerngeiwn, Pontypridd. He was converted by Howel Harris in 1738 or 1739; throughout his life he spoke highly of Harris, and for some years he mingled with the Methodists of his countryside, such as John Belcher and Thomas William of Eglwysilan. He joined (1739) the
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator months as an accomplice in the Ridolfi Plot. On release he went to Paris, where as secretary to Mary's ambassador, James Beaton, archbishop of Glasgow, he continued to manage her correspondence till, in 1583, he was accused by Dr. William Parry of originating the assassination plot for which Parry was executed in 1585. In the preceding year (1584) had appeared the anonymous libel on Elizabeth's
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 JOHN (1907 - 1986), Welsh scholar and writer T. J. Morgan was born on 22 April 1907 in the village of Glais, Swansea Valley, a largely monoglot Welsh-speaking area at that time. He was the younger of the two sons of William Morgan, coal miner, and his wife Annie. He received his early education in the local primary school and then at Pontardawe secondary school before proceeding to Swansea University College where he played rugby for the
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1623 - 1689), Jesuit
MORGAN, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1584), soldier of fortune

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