Modern English biography

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.