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MORGAN, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1850 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer Born at Lluesty, Dyffryn Ardudwy, 14 August 1850, son of Edward Morgan (1817 - 1871). He was educated at Holt Academy; a school in Hastings; Bala C.M. College (entering 1865); and Edinburgh University (where he graduated M.A.), and New College. He became pastor of Caersalem, Barmouth, and was ordained 5 September 1877. In 1888 he accepted the pastorate of the English cause at Menai Bridge, but
MORGAN, RICHARD WILLIAMS (Môr Meirion; c. 1815 - c. 1889), cleric and author ; Correspondence and statements of facts connected with the case of Morgan and the Bishop of St. Asaph. There is a suggestion in NLW MS 9267A (200) that he died in 1876, but according to Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1889, he was a curate in Huntingtonshire until 1888.
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor Born in 1608 at Bronfraith, Llandysul, Montgomeryshire, the third son of Richard Morgan, an Oxford man who had represented Montgomeryshire in the 1593 parliament. His mother was Mary, daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Gwernbuarth. After studying at home under the father of Simon Lloyd, later archdeacon of Merioneth, he entered Jesus College, Cambridge (6 July 1624), where he graduated B.A. 1628, M.A
MORGAN, ROBERT (1621 - 1710), Baptist minister being David; John, who died at the very beginning of his ministry at Warwick, 12 May 1703, aged 24; Hannah, wife of Arthur Melchior, who is included with her husband and others in a letter of dismission from Swansea to Pennsylvania in 1710; and Robert (or Morgan) who is said to have been a schoolmaster at Horsley Down, London.
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, Sir THOMAS (1604 - 1679), soldier was the son and heir of Lewis Morgan of Llangattock, Monmouth (not the brother of Sir Henry Morgan, as in Clark, Limbus Patrum, 315, but probably his nephew). He inherited lands in Monmouthshire and acquired others, but spent most of his life in England and abroad. At 16, having at that time little knowledge of any language but Welsh, he enlisted in Sir Horace Vere's Protestant volunteer
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator claimed descent from a ' right worshipful family of Monmouthshire '; D.N.B. surmises this to have been the Morgan family, Llantarnam and David Mathew (Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe, 89), those of Machen, but he cannot be fitted into the pedigree of either family as given in Clark, Limbus, 311-3, 322-3. After education at Oxford (college unknown) and service in the households of the bishop
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 (1769 - 1851), navy chaplain Born 6 December 1769, son of Philip Morgan of Devynnock, Brecknock - see the article G. E. F. Morgan. He was at Christ College school under David Griffith (1726 - 1816), and went to Wadham and Jesus, Oxford, graduating in 1790 (D.D. 1824). He took orders, and after a breakdown in health became a chaplain in the royal navy. He was at the 'First of June' (1794), in which he was wounded. In 1798 he
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 (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 (bu farw 1833), Wesleyan missionary and minister

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