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MORGAN, GEORGE CADOGAN (1754 - 1798), Arian minister and tutor, and scientist Born in 1754 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, second son of William Morgan, physician, and his wife Sarah, who was a sister of Richard Price the philosopher - another of their sons was William Morgan (1750 - 1833). From Cowbridge school he went up, in 1771, to Jesus College, Oxford, intending to take Anglican orders, but he changed his theological views and went to Hoxton Academy. He was minister at
MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE (1826 - 1897), politician he seconded Henry Richard's resolution on the Welsh evictions after the election of 1868, and in 1870 he introduced the burials bill, permitting any Christian service in a parish churchyard, a direct result of what had happened at the funeral of Henry Rees in the previous year. Osborne Morgan introduced this bill in ten successive sessions until, in 1880, it was passed. In 1870 he also introduced
MORGAN, GRIFFITH (Guto Nyth-brân; 1700 - 1737), cross-country runner
MORGAN, GWENLLIAN ELIZABETH FANNY (1852 - 1939), antiquary historical notes. The project was announced as early as 1896, but the two friends died without realizing it. Their large collections, however, were handed over to the late Dr. F. E. Hutchinson, who used them for his standard book Henry Vaughan (1947). The University of Wales conferred an honorary M.A. degree upon Miss Morgan in 1925. She died at Brecon, 7 November 1939.
MORGAN, HECTOR DAVIES (1785 - 1850), cleric and theological writer only son of Hector Davies and Sophia his wife; born (in London ?) in 1785. Upon his grandfather's death in 1800 he succeeded to the name and arms of Morgan, adopted by his grandfather on his (second) marriage with Christiana, niece and heiress of John Morgan of Cardigan (1686 - 1763?). Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, he took his B.A. in 1806 and his M.A. in 1815, and was for 37 years curate
MORGAN, HENRY (1635? - 1688), buccaneer Numerous attempts have been made to identify the parents of Henry Morgan, all based on the assumption that he was related to the Morgan familyof Tredegar. These attempts have all proved unsatisfactory. The following entry in the Bristol Apprentice Books (Servants to Foreign Plantations) can be regarded with virtual certainty as referring to him: ' 1655, February 9. Henry Morgan of Abergavenny
MORGAN, HENRY (bu farw 1559), bishop
MORGAN, HENRY ARTHUR (1830 - 1912), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge - gweler MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE
MORGAN, HERBERT (1875 - 1946), minister (B), university lecturer, and director of extra-mural studies
MORGAN, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician Rhodri Morgan was born on 29 September 1939 in Cardiff, the second son of Thomas John ('T.J.') Morgan, a university lecturer, and his wife Huana (née Rees, 1906-2005), a teacher. His older brother Prys was born in 1937. The family had a strong academic and political heritage. Huana's father, John Rees, was a parish councillor in Swansea, while her grandfather, Thomas, had been a leading figure in
MORGAN, IWAN JAMES (1904 - 1966), extra-mural tutor and politician Born 1904 at Tondu, Glamorganshire, the son of John James Morgan (1870 - 1954), the head teacher of Garw secondary school, 1909-35. He was educated at Bridgend County School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with honours in economics in 1926. He was awarded the degree of M.A. in 1929 for a thesis on the ' Origins and Development of the University Movement in
MORGAN, JENKIN (bu farw 1762), Independent minister the list of Blaen-gwrach members in 1734, contained in J. Rufus Williams's reprint of ' Henry Davies's Pocket-book ' - and it may be significant that the place of his ordination was Watford, near Caerphilly. Morgan was one of Griffith Jones's 'circulating' schoolmasters. In a letter February 1739 by Lewis Rees, printed by Bennett, Meth. Trefaldwyn Uchaf, 14-16), he kept schools at Llanbryn-mair

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