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MORGAN, CHARLES OCTAVIUS SWINNERTON (1803 - 1888), antiquary and local historian 1832. His name and that of Thomas Wakeman are thought of immediately in connection with the publications of the Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association (founded in 1847), both Morgan and Wakeman, severally or in conjunction, being responsible for most of those 'Publications.' The following titles give some idea of what Morgan himself published - ' Excavations … within the walls of Caerwent
MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive Cliff Morgan was born on 7 April 1930 at 159 Top Trebanog Road, Trebanog in the Rhondda Valley, the only child of Clifford Morgan (1901-1972), a coal miner, and his wife Edna May (née Thomas, 1907-1962). His father was a talented footballer who had been offered professional terms by Tottenham Hotspur in the months leading up to Cliff's birth, but rejected the offer. Although English was the
MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian Gartside chapel, Manchester, and in 1839 to Llanfyllin, where he remained until his retirement in 1857. He died at Oswestry 14 July 1858, and was buried in the Pendref chapel burial ground at Llanfyllin. His daughter, Ann, married Thomas Bynner, Llanfyllin, draper, and they had a son, David Morgan Bynner who married Catherine Jones, daughter of Owen Daniel, Caethle, Tywyn in 1877 (see article on John
MORGAN, DAVID (1814 - 1883), religious revivalist the Calvinistic Methodists and was ordained at the Association at Trefîn, 20 May 1857. In the following year he came in contact with Humphrey R. Jones, who had recently returned from the United States of America deeply influenced by a religious revival which had swept that country, and who had already kindled the flame of revival in north Cardiganshire. Morgan joined him in his campaign, and under
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) began to preach. He received his early education in Pen-y-groes Primary School before going to the local Grammar School in Ammanford. There, his interest in literature was aroused by his friendship with D. R. Griffiths, 'Amanwy', the school caretaker. He won the Mary Towyn Jones Scholarship and was admitted to the University College of Swansea where he was gained an honours degree in Welsh in 1938. He
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer during the first half of the twentieth century. They were written in a lively style. A selection of these essays was published in Pant a bryn (1953). He married 7 July 1915, Annie, daughter of John and Jane Jones, Tŷ-llwyd, Brynmawr (originally from Swyddffynnon). He died suddenly on 18 May 1949 at Charing Cross Hospital, London. His body was cremated at Golders Green and his ashes were returned to
MORGAN, DAVID THOMAS (c. 1695 - 1746), Jacobite was the son of Thomas and Dorothy Morgan. His father was the second son of William Morgan of Coed-y-gorres, and his mother was the daughter of David Mathew of Llandaff and grand-daughter of Sir Edmund Stradling of S. Donat's. Through his mother he was, therefore, related to the leading gentry of Glamorgan, and through his father he may have been related to the Morgan family of Tredegar. He is
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist Dewi Morgan was born 21 December 1877 at Brynderwen, Dôl-y-bont, Ceredigion, the son of William Morgan (1852-1917) and Jane Jones (1846-1922). When he was two years old, the family moved to Garn House, Pen-y-garn where his father kept a grocer's shop, and ran a coal and haulage business. Dewi received little formal education: after helping in his parents' business for a few years, he joined the
MORGAN, EDWARD (1783 - 1869), Evangelical cleric and author Born at Tŷ Tanglwst, Pyle, Glamorganshire, and christened there 7 November 1783, son of David Morgan. He graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1806 (M.A. 1811), and in 1814 became vicar of Syston, Leicestershire, adding to this in 1814 the living of Ratcliffe. He was a great admirer (and correspondent) of Thomas Charles of Bala, and also of David Jones of Llangan. His Memoir of Charles was in
MORGAN, EDWARD (1817 - 1871), Calvinistic Methodist minister to Y Gwyddoniadur. He was moderator of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association in 1865, and of the general assembly in 1870. He died 9 May 1871. Two volumes of his sermons, edited by Dr. Owen Thomas, were published (1876 and 1882). His widow died 27 June 1888. Their eldest son was Richard Humphreys Morgan.
MORGAN, ELIZABETH (1705 - 1773), gardener Sneyd of Keele Hall, Staffordshire. The eldest of Elizabeth's siblings was John who died in 1735 at the age of 31 years. Of her younger brothers the best-known was the poet Sneyd Davies, 1709-1769. Thomas, born in Shrewsbury in 1711 was buried in Kingsland, Herefordshire in 1712 indicating that the family moved there during this time when her father took on the living at Kingsland. From the age of six
MORGAN, ELUNED (1870 - 1938), writer and Patagonian colonist Born on board the Myfanwy in the Bay of Biscay, daughter of Lewis Jones (1836 - 1904), and given the surname 'Morgan' at her christening. She was brought up in the Welsh colony in Patagonia, where she was educated at the Welsh school kept by R. J. Berwyn and 'Glan Tywi.' She came to Wales in 1885, and again in 1888 when she entered Dr. Williams's school at Dolgelley, where she spent the next two

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