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MORGAN, FRANK ARTHUR (1844 - 1907) his family for some months. In March 1887 he was sent to open up the port of Kowloon and lived in Hong Kong for three years, working there, it was said, 'with distinction', then was sent to the port of Zhouhai from 1890 to 1891, returning home in 1892. Although he had formed a secret relationship for many years with his Eurasian companion, Ah Soo, and had two children by her, Robert and Sybil Morgan
MORGAN, REES (1764 - 1847), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born at Capel-hir, Talley, Carmarthenshire, son of Morgan Rees who was a member of the Methodist society at Glanyrafon-ddu Ganol. His spiritual regeneration took place under the ministry of William Lloyd of Caeo (1741 - 1808) who, thereafter, was his firm friend. He began to exhort c. 1784-5, and from that time on spent the whole of his long life in the field, travelling over the whole of Wales
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, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor ' comportioner ' of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, took up the prebend of Penmynydd to which he had previously been nominated, and completed his Cambridge D.D. (1661). In 1666 he was consecrated bishop of Bangor in place of Robert Price, who had died before institution. He helped to restore the cathedral fabric after the neglect of the Interregnum, and endowed it with an organ; he also preached assiduously in
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (1604 - 1679), soldier 1645), helped in the capture of Chepstow (October 1645) and Hereford (22 December 1645), and made several incursions into Monmouthshire, in the course of which he was able to discourage recruiting for the king and to gain new adherents for Parliament. After helping to defeat the last Royalist army in the field at Stow-on-the-wold (22 March 1646), he returned to Monmouthshire as commander-in-chief (2
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh wealthy heiress to Robert Wynn of Gwydir. In 1579 Morgan testified in an action concerning the validity of Meredith's marriage, and during the hearing of the case first came into contact with archbishop Whitgift who greatly encouraged him in his work of translation. The upshot of these quarrels was a suit brought by Morgan, and countersuits by his enemies, in the Court of Star Chamber and the Council of
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
MORRIS ap ROBERT - gweler ROBERTS, MORRIS
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, ROBERT (bu farw 1768), industrialist son of Robert Morris of Bishop's Castle and Cleobury Mortimer. He entered business in North Wales and married Margaret Jenkins of Machynlleth; but moved to Tredegar. In 1727 he joined Richard Lockwood and Edward Gibbon (the historian's grandfather) in buying a copper-works at ' Landore ' (Glandŵr), Swansea; they had works afterwards at Llangyfelach and Forest, together with brass-wire mills and
MORRIS, ROBERT (1743 - 1797?), barrister - gweler MORRIS, ROBERT
MORRIS, ROBERT (fl. 1767-1816), poet - gweler ROBERTS, ELLIS

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