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MORGAN, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician job with the Worker's Education Association (WEA). Later that year, he joined the Labour Party - and it was through the party that he met his future wife, Julie Edwards (born 1944). They married on 22 April, 1967, following a three-year courtship buttressed by activism and campaigning. Two decades elapsed between Morgan leaving the WEA and becoming an MP. Yet the journey for other WEA alumni, like
MORGAN, JOHN LLOYD (1861 - 1944), county court judge Parliament (as a Liberal), 1889-1910, and was Recorder of Swansea, 1909-11. His biography of his father was published in London in 1886. He was generous to various religious causes, particularly to Union Street Chapel, Carmarthen, his father's church. He died 17 May 1944 and was buried in the Union Street Chapel cemetery.
MORGAN, JOHN RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur eloquent speaker on the Liberal platform, but is probably best remembered for his popular lectures, of which at least thirty subjects have been recorded. In addition, he was an eisteddfod adjudicator, co-editor of Y Medelwr Ieuanc, which was first published in 1871, and editor of the poetry section of Seren Cymru from 1860 to 1877, and Seren Gomer in the early 1860's, but owing to his multiplicity of
MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831 - 1916), lord mayor of London places, but he then joined the firm of ' Morgan Brothers ' and other family ventures. He was lord mayor of London in 1905-6, and died 12 November 1916. A younger brother (the eighth son), OCTAVIUS VAUGHAN MORGAN (1837 - 1896), a F.S.A., was Liberal Member of Parliament for Battersea, 1885-92.
MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician Liberal also stood, he might well have won. He was the Conservative MP for Denbigh, 1959-83, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes. Morgan then resigned after an acrimonious dispute over the nomination for the new Clwyd North West seat. He was noted for very rarely making any speeches in the House during his 24 years as a member. His attendance record was also very poor - he usually put in an
MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM (1896 - 1979), lawyer and judge , in 1923 and 1924, he unsuccessfully attempted to enter the House of Commons as the Liberal candidate for Ilford. In the 1940s, he took on several advisory roles for government, being deputy chairman of the Home Office Aliens Advisory Committee, preparing reports for the Treasury, as well as chairing some other committees. Despite his involvement in government work, Morris was still predominantly a
MORRIS, Sir LEWIS (1833 - 1907), poet and educationist , and a vice-president from 1896 till his death. A Liberal in politics, he unsuccessfully contested many parliamentary seats. He had married Florence Julia Pollard in 1868; there were two daughters and a son. He died 10 November 1907.
MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. the war. He remained at the B.B.C. until 1945 when Carmarthen West invited him to stand in the Liberal interest in the General Election. His was the only Liberal gain from Labour in that election and he kept the seat until his death, with increased majorities at every election. He took silk in 1946, was knighted in the New Year's honours list in 1954, received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws of
MORRIS-JONES, JOHN HENRY (1884 - 1972), Liberal\/National Liberal politician Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment. He later served as Chairman of his division of the British Medical Association and of the Colwyn Bay Medical Society. In May 1929 he was elected the Liberal MP for the relatively safe seat of Denbighshire in succession to Ellis W. Davies MP who was standing down because of ill-health. Morris-Jones joined the Liberal National group of MPs led by Sir John Simon in
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party enrolled at Gwynfryn School, Amanford, under Watkin Hezekiah Williams, 'Watcyn Wyn' (1844-1905) and John Gwili Jenkins (1872-1936), an advocate of the broad and liberal theological views associated with the New Theology of R.J. Campbell. T.E. Nicholas acknowledged his immense debt to Gwili Jenkins for opening for him the world of Christian Socialism, though he had read for himself accounts of the work of
OWEN, Sir GORONWY (1881 - 1963), politician , the director of several companies and a member of many commercial and trading organisations. Goronwy Owen stood as the Liberal candidate for the South Derbyshire division in 1922, and was mentioned as a likely candidate for the University of Wales constituency. Elected for Caernarfonshire in 1923, he continued to represent the constituency in parliament until 1945. He became a member of David Lloyd
OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture and good farm of Penyberth on the Madryn estate. There he died, 17 May 1876; he was buried in the Tai-duon burial-ground, Pant-glas, Eifionydd. Owen was esteemed a good preacher, though 'dry' and doctrinal. But he is described as a man with too many irons in the fire. As the story of 1868-9 shows, he was a zealous Liberal of the old individualistic kind; and in his native county his name has become

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