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MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive language of the family home, Cliff learnt Welsh from his father and was a fluent speaker. He attended Gellidawel Junior School in Tonyrefail before progressing to Tonyrefail Grammar School. From his earliest years, he had a passion for music, playing piano and participating in many school eisteddfodau. Aged 17, he became a second tenor in the Porth and District Mixed-Voice Choir, singing with his father
MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian Dolau, Tal-y-bont, near Aberystwyth (whither, in the meantime, the family had moved), with the intention of becoming a farmer. He married Mary Hughes (1782 - 1826), daughter of the Llwyn-glas household and the two young people went to live at Cerrig-cyrannau where, contrary to the wishes of their respective families, they joined the Independents. He began to preach at Tal-y-bont, which was then under
MORGAN, DAVID (1814 - 1883), religious revivalist Born at Melin Bodcoll, between Devil's Bridge and Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, the third of nine children of Dafydd Morgans, miller and joiner, and Catherine his wife. The family moved three times before settling at Melin-y-lefel (which his father built), near Ysbyty Ystwyth, where he lived until his marriage. He learnt the trade of a joiner in his father's workshop. In 1842 he began to preach with
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) David Eirwyn Morgan was born on 23 April 1918 in Bryn Meurig, Heol Waterloo, Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire, one of the four children - 3 sons and 1 daughter - of David and Rachel Morgan. His father worked in the local colliery, but the family worshipped in Saron, the Welsh Baptist church in Llandybïe, and it was there that Eirwyn was baptised by the Reverend Richard Lloyd, and there also that he
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, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator Dyfnallt Morgan was born in Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil on 24 May 1917, the only child of Osborne Morgan (1881-1937) and his wife Frances Jane (née Hawes, 1882-1966). His father's family had moved to Merthyr from Ceredigion during the nineteenth century, and his mother had roots in Llanddewi Brefi. His parents met in Llanddewi after his mother moved to the village from London to live with her aunt
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author employment, Elaine Morgan began writing fulltime: radio scripts, short stories, poems, and teleplays. Only a novel eluded her. The family returned to Wales in 1953, settling in Abernant, near Aberdare. By 1960, the year her debut serial, A Matter of Degree, was broadcast on BBC TV, she had established herself as the pre-eminent Welsh screenwriter of her generation. In the 1960s, her fame and renown grew
MORGAN, ELENA PUW (1900 - 1973), novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children above her eye where the belt buckle wielded by her mother almost put her eye out. This scar is both a physical mark of her mother's brutality and an emblem of Dori's psychological scarring. She is packed off as a maidservant to a middle-class family in Liverpool where she suffers constant humiliation and abuse from her English fellow-workers. The second half of the novel chronicles Dori's adult life
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, EVAN (1809 - 1853), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born in 1809, son of Evan Morgan, an elder in the old Zion chapel at Cardiff. He and his brother, Thomas Morgan (1816-1858), were monumental masons. He began to preach in 1830, at the same time as Edward Matthews who was a great friend of the family. In 1841 he was ordained at the Llangeitho association; he had already, in 1836, married Mary Morgan of Clun-hir, Pontardulais. He spent the whole of
MORGAN, EVAN FREDERIC (2nd VISCOUNT TREDEGAR), (1893 - 1949), poet, artist, soldier, and statesman inquest in May 1925. The Honourable Evan Morgan, as he was known for the greater part of his life, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the founder vice-presidents of the Oxford Celtic Society. Following the tradition of his family he took a commission in the army, 27 June 1915, choosing, as might be expected, the Welsh Guards, but his health did not allow him to follow a

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