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MORGAN, THOMAS REES (1834 - 1897), mechanical engineer and manufacturer, and inventor mathematics and engineering; he afterwards worked as mechanic in local iron-works. Emigrating to the U.S.A. in 1865, Morgan settled at Pittston, Pa., and worked in the shops of the Lackawanna and Bloomsbury railway. He afterwards worked in the Cambria Iron Works at Johnstown, as a foreman in the Atlas Works at Pittsburgh, etc. In 1868 he started business on his own account, under the name of Marchand and
MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director Born 28 January 1914 at Tonyrefail, Glamorganshire, fifth child of Samuel and Edith (née Richards) Morgan. The father's family came from Peterston-super-Ely and the mother's from Llantwit Fardre. The father, a mason, died in the flu epidemic which swept the country in 1918. The mother struggled to raise the children in great poverty. Both sides of the family were committed Baptists, their
MORGAN, WALTER (fl. 1695), author concerning patronage took place in Chancery and James Harries, presented by the dean and chapter of Gloucester, was in fact instituted, 7 June 1695 (Llandaff Subscription Books, iv), and he remained in undisturbed possession till 1728. It is not certain whether the Walter Morgan included in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, the son of Thomas Morgan of Llandilo, who matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 30 May
MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831 - 1916), lord mayor of London Born 3 May 1831, sixth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton, Glasbury, Brecknock - on the family, see Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii, 90. Because of the family's financial losses, several of the sons went up to London, where they were remarkably successful. Walter Vaughan Morgan was for ten years (1846-56) in the service of the National Provincial Bank in various
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1623 - 1689), Jesuit Born 1623 at Cilcain, Flintshire, son of Henry Morgan and Winefrid Gwynne. He was educated at Westminster School and in 1640 went to Trinity College, Cambridge, according to Foley, although his name does not appear in the registers either of that college or of any other Cambridge college. After two years there, he is said to have been expelled for espousing the cause of king Charles. He was taken
MORGAN, Sir WILLIAM (bu farw 1584), soldier of fortune son of Sir Thomas Morgan of Pen-coed and Langstone, Glamorganshire, and Cecilia, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea. In 1569 he went to France to fight as a volunteer in the Protestant army. After having been engaged in several skirmishes in that country and in the Netherlands he returned to England in time to join the earl of Essex in his Irish ventures. In 1574 he was knighted by
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1818 - 1884), Congregational minister and college tutor
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 (JOHN) (Penfro; 1846 - 1918), cleric, eisteddfodwr, and hymn-writer Born 14 December 1846 at Nevern, Pembrokeshire; his father, David Morgan, removed early to Llanfihangel-penbedw and afterwards to Boncath, at both of which he was parish clerk and precentor. The son, musical like his father, was educated at Cardigan grammar school and Lampeter (B.A. 1871). Ordained in 1871, he was licensed to Llanrwst, where he formed close contacts not only with the famous
MORGAN, WILLIAM (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet were, in the main, responsible for the 'cymanfa ganu' movement which, inaugurated at Aberdare in 1859, spread soon afterwards to various parts of Wales. He married Mary, sister of Noah Morgan Jones (Cymro Gwyllt). David Williams (Alaw Goch) was his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister Ann. He died 7 September 1878, and was buried in Aberdare cemetery.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Gelli-deg; 1808 - 1878), poet
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Born at Ty Mawr, Wybrnant, in the parish of Penmachno, the son of John ap Morgan ap Llywelyn, a copyholder on the Gwydir estates, and his wife Lowri, daughter of William ap John ap Madog. Reputed to have received his early education at the hands of a former monk, he entered S. John's College, Cambridge, as a sub-sizar in 1565. He graduated B.A. in 1568, and M.A. in 1571; and later became a B.D

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