vault at Bassaleg church, Monmouthshire. _G. T. Clarke’s Limbus
patrum Morganiæ_ (1886) 313; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 384–6
(1889).
MORGAN, CHARLES RODNEY. _b._ Rupena house, Glamorgan 2 Dec.
1828; M.P. Brecknock 9 July 1852 to death. _d._ Marseilles 14
Jany. 1854.
MORGAN, DANIEL, assumed name of Samuel Moran. _b._ Campbeltown,
New South Wales about 1828; worked on sheep stations and as
a stock-rider; unjustly condemned at Castlemaine to 12 years
imprisonment 1854; known as Down-the-River Jack or Bill the
native; committed a series of highway robberies 1863, a reward
of £500 offered for his apprehension by government of N.S.W. 5
Jany. 1864; shot police-sergeant Mc.Ginnerty June 1864, killed
John Mc.Lean and wounded two others at Round Hill a few days
later; shot police-sergeant Smith Sept. 1864, the reward was
increased to £1500 8 March 1865; stuck up Bowler’s station 1
April 1865; stuck up Bond’s station, Upotipotpa and robbed the
Albury mail 4 April; stuck up Peechalba station 7 April. _shot_
at Peechalba station 8 April 1865, his head was cut off and
sent to Melbourne, his body was _bur._ at the Murray, said to
be the original of Patrick in Ralph Boldrewood’s (_i.e._ Thomas
Alexander Broun) novel Robbery under arms 3 vols. 1888. _Morgan
the mail robber or the bandit of the bush_ (1868). His life was
dramatised at the Princess’ theatre, London Oct. 1894.
MORGAN, DAVID LLOYD. _b._ Rhôsmaen near Llandilo 1823; studied
at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1846, F.R.C.S. 1861; M.D. St.
Andrew’s 1866; surgeon R.N. 31 Dec. 1846, fleet surgeon 1866;
inspector general of hospitals 1877, retired 30 May 1883; served
on West coast of Africa, in the Mediterranean and during Crimean
war; with the land forces in China; senior medical officer of
flag ship Euryalus in Japan and China 1862–5, and of the Royal
Alfred in the West Indies; deputy inspector general of Bermuda,
Hongkong and Chatham; received Blane medal 1871; C.B. 17 June
1871; inspector general at Plymouth 17 Dec. 1878, and at Haslar
hospital 6 Feb. 1880; physician in ordinary to the queen July
1888 to death. _d._ Rhôsmaen 3 Dec. 1892.
MORGAN, EDWARD. Draper at Newport, Monmouth; granted civil
list pension of £20 9 Sep. 1840 for his services as a special
constable during the riots, when he received several wounds.
_d._ 26 March 1856.
MORGAN, HUGH (3 son of Hugh Morgan of Machynlleth, co.
Montgomery). _b._ 1826; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A.
1849; V. of Rhyl 1855 to death; archdeacon of St. Asaph and
canon residentiary of St. Asaph cathedral 1877 to death. _d._
canonry of St. Asaph 8 June 1878.
MORGAN, JAMES (son of Thomas Morgan of Cookstown, co. Tyrone,
linen merchant, _d._ 1835). _b._ Cookstown 15 June 1799; entered
Glasgow univ. Nov. 1814, D.D. 1847; studied at Belfast college
1815–20; presbyterian minister at Carlow Feb. 1820, at Lisburn,
co. Antrim 1824–78, and at Fisherwich place chapel, Belfast Nov.
1828 to death; a founder of Ulster temperance society 1829; hon.
secretary of the general assembly’s foreign mission 1840 to
death; moderator of general assembly 1846; joint editor of The
Orthodox Presbyterian; author of Essays on some of the principal
doctrines and duties of the Gospel 1837; Lessons for parents and
sabbath school teachers 1849; The Lord’s Supper 1849; Rome and
the Gospel 1853. _d._ Belfast 5 Aug. 1873. _Thomas Morgan’s Life
of Dr. Morgan_ (1874) _portrait_.
MORGAN, JAMES (son of a farmer). _b._ about 1795; assistant
whipper-in to Mr. Lloyd of Wintlesham hall, Suffolk; whipper-in
to Suffolk Border hounds; huntsman to Cambridgeshire hounds;
kennel huntsman and whipper in to the Tickham hounds, Kent 3
years; huntsman to Mr. Conyers 15 years; huntsman to the Essex
union 3 years; huntsman to lord Berkeley 1851; huntsman to lord
Lonsdale 1854. _I.L.N. 29 Dec. 1855 p._ 760 _portrait_.
MORGAN, JOHN. _b._ 1785; entered Madras army 1800; lieut. 12
Madras N.I. 20 July 1801, captain 7 June 1813; major 24 N.I. 8
Sept. 1826, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1831 to 9 Feb. 1834; lieut. col.
of 4 N.I. 9 Feb. 1834, of 28 N.I. 1835 to 1840, of 12 N.I. 1840
to 24 Dec. 1841, and of 52 N.I. 24 Dec. 1841 to 23 Jany. 1843;
commander at Masulipatam 21 Dec. 1841 to 19 Feb. 1844; col. of
46 N.I. 23 Jany. 1843 to death; general 27 May 1866; C.B. 20
July 1838. _d._ Swansea 29 March 1869.
MORGAN, JOHN. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1853;
L.R.C.S.I. 1850, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; demonstrator of anatomy at
school of surgery under direction of council of royal college of
surgeons Ireland 1851–61, professor of surgical and descriptive
anatomy 1861 to death; author of Practical lessons on affections
produced by contagious diseases 1872; Cure of bent knee and the
treatment of contracted joints 1874; Report of cases treated
in the Westmoreland Lock hospital 1868. _d._ 23 St. Stephen’s
green, Dublin 4 March 1876.
MORGAN, JOHN EDWARD (son of rev. Mr. Morgan). _b._ Gothenburg,
Sweden 1829; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860, B.M.
1861, M.D. 1865; M.R.C.P. 1861, F.R.C.P. 1868, consiliarius
1887; professor of medicine Owens college, Victoria univ.
Manchester 1873, resigned 1891; author of The danger and
deterioration of race from the increase of great cities 1866;
Town life among the poorest, the air they breathe and the house
they inhabit 1869; University oars, an enquiry into the after
health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat
race 1829–69, 1873; The Victoria university why are there no
medical degrees 1881. _d._ Knutsford near Manchester 4 Sept.
1892.
MORGAN, JOHN MINTER (eld. son of John Morgan of 39 Ludgate
hill, London, wholesale stationer 1741–1807). _b._ London 1782;
devoted himself to philanthropy; author of Remarks on the
practicability of Mr. Owen’s plan to improve the condition of
the lower classes 1819; The revolt of the bees 1826; anon. which
contained his views on education; The reproof of Brutus, a poem
1830; Hampden in the nineteenth century 1834; Colloquies on
religion and religious education 1851; reprinted some of his own
and other works under title of The Phœnix Library 13 vols. 1850;
founded the National Orphan home near his own residence on Ham
Common 1849; tried to raise £50,000 to erect a Church of England
self-supporting village 1850. _d._ 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly,
London 26 Dec. 1854. _bur._ in the church on Ham Common 3 Jany.