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MORGAN, Sir WILLIAM (bu farw 1584), soldier of fortune son of Sir Thomas Morgan of Pen-coed and Langstone, Glamorganshire, and Cecilia, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea. In 1569 he went to France to fight as a volunteer in the Protestant army. After having been engaged in several skirmishes in that country and in the Netherlands he returned to England in time to join the earl of Essex in his Irish ventures. In 1574 he was knighted by
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary Born 26 May 1750 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, brother of George Cadogan Morgan and nephew of the philosopher Richard Price. He was apprenticed to two apothecaries in London, and was a student at St. Thomas' Hospital. He returned to Bridgend in 1772 to take up his father's practice after his death. He went to London in 1773 where he may have kept a school for a while. In 17 April 1774 Price got
MORGAN, WILLIAM (JOHN) (Penfro; 1846 - 1918), cleric, eisteddfodwr, and hymn-writer 1878 he became vicar of Pennant, Montgomeryshire, then (1887) vicar of Llansantffraid (Glan Conwy) and, finally (1904), rector of Manafon, Montgomeryshire, where he died 23 June 1918, and where a tombstone and a tablet commemorate him; he was married; his wife and two of their four children had predeceased him. Penfro was a copious writer of verse, but is today remembered chiefly for his hymns. A
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 (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Lloyd, but died s.p. For Morgan's use of Tremellius's Old Testament and his methods as a translator see Isaac Thomas, Yr Hen Destament Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1988) and Y Testament Newydd Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1976). For Morgan's status as a scholar see also R. Geraint Gruffydd, ' The Translating of the Bible into the Welsh Tongue,' 1988.
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
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist beliefs which 'on all the great points' concurred with Price's philosophy and Unitarian creed. He admits rather coyly 'some doubts' but does not give any details. Through Price, Morgan met a number of the leading intellectuals of the day including Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Howard and John Horne Tooke, and he shared many of their radical views. He was sympathetic to the
MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician matters. He held regular constituency surgeries, usually in Denbigh's historic eighteenth-century town hall. In the general election of 1983, he lent support to the Plaid Cymru candidate. In 1984, deprived of his seat, he resigned from the Conservatives and joined the Liberal Party. In the 1989 European elections Morgan urged support for Dafydd Elis Thomas, the Plaid Cymru candidate. Yet he never
MORRICE, JAMES CORNELIUS (1874 - 1953), priest and Welsh scholar Born 10 December 1874 at Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, son of James Cornelius Morrice, engine driver, and his wife Margaret (née Thomas). He was educated at Porthmadog county school and University College Bangor (1897) where he graduated with first-class hon. in Welsh in 1900, the first to do so, it is claimed: he gained his M.A. with a dissertation on ' The poems of William Lleyn ' in 1902
MORRIS, DAVID (Bardd Einion; 1797? - 1868), poet his produce to his neighbours or in the near-by markets. He was well versed in Welsh history and poetry and could recite long poems from memory. He was himself an able writer of englynion and at the Llanfair Caereinion eisteddfod, out of forty competitors, won the prize for an englyn on ' The Wind.' It is said that Gwallter Mechain and Robert Jones (Bardd Mawddach) used to correct his earlier
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer ; his second wife is called 'Betti' in the elegy written upon him by Thomas Jones. The celebrated Ebenezer Morris was his son by his first wife. He died 17 September 1791, and was buried in Tredreyr churchyard. David Morris was a hymn-writer of some distinction. In 1773 a collection of his hymns was published by J. Ross of Carmarthen under the title Can y Pererinion Cystuddiedig ar eu Taith tu a Seion
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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