MORGAN, Charles Octavius Swinnerton (brother of the preceding). b. 15 Sept. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A, 1825, M.A. 1852; M.P. Monmouthshire 1841 to 1874; read many papers before the Caerleon antiquarian association 1854–66 of which he was president; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; F.S.A. 13 May 1830, vice-president; author of Tables of the annual assay office letters used in the marking of plate 1853; Some account of the monuments in the priory church Abergavenny 1872; Old English plate founded on the papers of C. O. S. Morgan and W. J. Cripps 1878. d. The Friars, Newport 5 Aug. 1888. bur. in family 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.