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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, 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, JOSEPH BICKERTON (1859 - 1894), geologist and conchologist Born 26 June 1859 at Welshpool, son of Arthur J. Morgan. As a youth he became interested in local rocks and took prizes for collections of fossils at national eisteddfodau at Cardiff, 1883, and Caernarvon, 1886. In 1887 he was appointed assistant honorary curator of the Powysland Museum, where he arranged and augmented the geological collections. He was elected Fellow of the Geological Society
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, MAURICE - gweler MORGANN, MAURICE
MORGAN, MORGAN PARRY (1876 - 1964), minister of religion (CM) and powerful preacher Born 8 July 1876, in Llanafan, Cardiganshire, the only son of David Morgan, Brynseir, Lledrod, Cardiganshire, and Catherine (née Parry) his wife, daughter of Morgan Parry, surveyor of the Trawscoed estate. When he was six years old the family moved to Pontycymer, Glamorganshire, where they became members at Bethel church (CM). He was educated at Pontycymer board school, but laid great stress on
MORGAN, OWEN (Morien; 1836? - 1921), journalist and miscellaneous writer who died on 16 December 1921 (Western Mail), was then said to have been over 80, and to have been a son of Thomas T. Morgan and his wife, Margaret, of Pen-y-graig, Rhondda. He had sedulously concealed his age. But the bishop's transcripts for Ystradyfodwg parish record the christening on 23 February 1836 of ' Owen, son of Thomas and Margaret Owen of Dinas [Rhondda], collier ', and it seems pretty
MORGAN, PHILIP (bu farw 1435), bishop of Worcester (1419) and of Ely (1426)
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, RHYS (c. 1700 - c. 1775), poet -house') in Blaen-gwrach; two persons bearing the name of Rees Morgan figure in the list of members in 1734, the one an elder and the other a deacon. But it is as a poet that he earned a name for himself in the annals of Glamorgan. He was, doubtless, trained in the bardic craft by one of the pupils of Edward Dafydd of Margam, but the man who probably influenced him most was Dafydd Lewys, Llanllawddog
MORGAN, RICHARD (1854 - 1939), schoolmaster and naturalist Born at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, 1854, son of Thomas Morgan, shoemaker. He was educated at the Old British School Tal-y-bont, and afterwards at Bangor University College. He held a teaching post at Aberystwyth before he was appointed headmaster of the Llanarmon-yn-Iâl school, a position which he held for nearly forty years during which time he also organised successful evening classes. He was
MORGAN, RICHARD (1743 - 1805), Independent minister branches, and died there 10 February 1805, aged 62. He was a diligent, even an excessive, reader, reading the Bible in the original languages daily; in theology he was an uncompromising Calvinist, and would have no truck with the 'reasonableness' of his fellow- Independent John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair. With Morgan Jones (1768 - 1835) of Tre-lech, he conducted energetic missions in the

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