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MORGAN, RICHARD (1743 - 1805), Independent minister
MORGAN, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1850 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer resigned from pastoral work in 1892 when he was appointed to collect an additional fund for the Bala College. He was secretary to the Bala College committee from 1886 to 1899. He went to live at Bangor, where he died 31 March 1899; he was buried at Towyn, Meironnydd. He married, 23 October 1879 Barbara Elizabeth, daughter of Griffith Jones, Gwyddelfynydd, near Towyn, and granddaughter of Richard Jones
MORGAN, RICHARD WILLIAMS (Môr Meirion; c. 1815 - c. 1889), cleric and author
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, Sir THOMAS (1604 - 1679), soldier dragoons. Here he remained for six years, rising to the rank of major-general, till he was recalled to fight under the nominal command of Sir W. Lockhart in the campaign of the Dunes (1657-8), where he won considerable distinction. On his return he was knighted (26 November 1658) by Richard Cromwell (Whitelock, Memorials, iv, 338), but both Shaw (Knights, 224) and Noble (House of Cromwell, ii, 543
MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director
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 (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist William Morgan was born in Newcastle, Bridgend, Glamorgan, on 26 May 1750, the third of eight children and the first son of William Morgan (1708-1772), apothecary and doctor, and his wife Sarah (née Price, 1726-1803), sister of the philosopher Richard Price. The precise date of his birth is given by Caroline Williams, the family biographer and great-niece of William, but the date on his tomb is 6
MORRIS, CAREY (1882 - 1968), artist obtained a commission in the South Wales Borderers. He suffered from the effects of gas in Flanders and his health was impaired for the rest of his life. He claimed descent from the Morris family of Anglesey (John, Lewis, Morris, Richard, and William Morris), and one of his interests after the war was the issue of art and craft at the National Eisteddfod. He saw the need for reforming the Gorsedd
MORRIS, EDWARD ROWLEY (1828 - 1893), antiquary to London to be within reach of the record-collections. He died in London, 24 July 1893, but was buried at Newtown. He was one of the earliest members of the 'Powysland Club,' and contributed many important articles to Mont. Coll., Bye-Gones, and similar journals. In the opinion of his fellow- antiquary Richard Williams (1835 - 1906), his knowledge of Montgomeryshire history was 'perfectly unique.'
MORRIS, HAYDN (1891 - 1965), musician Born 18 February 1891, at Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, son of a coalminer, and the youngest of seven children, but he lost his parents (Richard and Rachel Morris) when he was young. He went to work in the New Cross Hands coalmine when he was 12 years old, and stayed there until he decided to devote himself entirely to music in 1916. He took an interest in music very early in life, and studied
MORRIS, JOHN (1706 - 1740), sailor son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris, and brother of Lewis, Richard, and William Morris. Born in 1706. Little is known about him, other than what is said in an article on his brother Lewis in the Cambrian Register, 1796, 232, from which we learn that he died on board the warship Torbay (in the unsuccessful attack on Cartagena) in 1740, aged 34 - he was ' master's mate.' We have some 22 of his letters

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