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MORICE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Thomas Morice, Paymaster of British Forces in Portugal, and Alice, dau. of Sir William Underhill, Kt, Idlicote, Warwicks.; b.; adm.; QS 1705; High Bailiff of Westminster 1719 – 14 Feb 1730/1, when he was allowed to sell post to a successor, on condition of giving £500 towards the building of the new Dormitory; an executor of the will of his father-in-law Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); living at Lisbon in 1747; still alive at Northfleet, Kent 1761, living under assumed name of Thompson to avoid his creditors; m. 1st, 21 May 1715 Mary, dau. of Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); m. 2nd, 2 Mar 1731/2 Anne, dau. of Capt. John Philpot, Rotherhithe, Surrey; d. 1769.

MORICE, JOHN, brother of William Morice (qv); b.; adm.; QS 1707; left 1709.

MORICE, FRANCIS, son of William Morice (qv), and his first wife; b. 7 Apr 1721; in school list 1731; KS (Capt. ) 1736; Capt. of the School 1739; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1740, matr. 10 Jun 1740, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1740 – void 6 Aug 1752; BA 1744; MA 1748; adm. Middle Temple 15 Jan 1736/7; ordained; Rector of Traddery and Vicar of Ogashin, co. Clare, 22 Oct 1748; Vicar of Kilfintinan, co. Clare 18 Mar 1755; Rector of Six Mile Bridge, co. Clare; Prebendary of Limerick [check]; m. 14 Jun 1764 Mary, dau. of William Spaight, Six Mile Bridge, co. Clare, barrister; d. 3 Oct 1778.

MORICE, CHARLES, brother of William Morice (qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1708; QS 1709; buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey 24 Jan 1710/1.

MORGAN-BROWN, HUBERT, elder son of William Morgan-Brown, North End, Finchley, Middlesex, patent agent, and Laura E. --- (1881 Census); b. 7 Apr 1867; adm. 26 Apr 1881 (G), exhibitioner; QS 8 Jun 1882; left Jul 1886; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1886, scholar 1887; played chess against Oxford 1887, 1888, 1889; LLB 1889; adm. Middle Temple 5 May 1887, called to bar 26 Jan 1891; m. 20 Jun 1906 Agnes, younger dau. of Rev. William Hudson FSA, Vicar of St. Peter’s, Norwich, Norfolk.

MORGAN, WILLIAM, second son of Henry Morgan, Flint, and his first wife Winefrid Gwynne; b. 1623; adm.; KS 1636; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1640, but his name does not appear in college or university records; said to have been expelled from Trinity Coll. after two years’ residence for joining Royalist army; taken prisoner at battle of Naseby and banished from country; entered Spanish service and became a Roman Catholic; entered English College, Rome 1648; adm. Society of Jesus 1651; Professor, Jesuit Coll., Liège 1661; sent as missioner to North Wales 1670; escaped to Continent in Feb 1678/9 from the persecution of Titus Oates; Rector of English Coll., Rome 1683; Provincial of Society of Jesus 22 Aug 1689; d. in the College at St. Omer 28 Sep 1689. DNB.

MORGAN, ROBERT, youngest son of Right Rev. Robert Morgan DD, Bishop of Bangor, and Anne, dau. of Rev. William Lloyd, Rector of Llaneilian, Anglesey; b.; adm.; KS 1680; Dryden, in a letter to Busby, alludes to Morgan’s election to Oxford in 1682 as an instance of a boy being elected to university before the usual time (Works, xviii, 99); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1682, matr. 14 Dec 1682, aged 17, Westminster Student 21 Dec 1682 – void 1700, Tutor (?); BA 1686; MA 1702; BD and DD 1702; went out of residence Sep 1692 to avoid taking oaths; retired to North Wales, where he taught at a school; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1701, priest 19 Oct 1701 (both Bangor); Rector of Llanddyfnan, Anglesey, from 6 Nov 1701; Canon Residentiary of Hereford from 3 Sep 1702; Rector of Ross, Herefs., from 27 Apr 1712; according to Thomas Hearne, Robert Freind considered him “one of the greatest scholars in the Kingdom” (Hearne, Collections, xi, 107); d. 19 Nov 1745.

MORGAN, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS 1670; did not secure election to either University 1672, but elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1673, matr. 31 May 1673, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1673 – expulsion 4 Jul 1674, for wounding several persons with a sword while drunk.

MORGAN, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. (qv); b. 4 Feb 1760; adm. 1 Feb 1771; KS 1774; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 21 Nov 1777; Lieut. and Capt., 22 Mar 1781; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 14 May 1790; retd. 4 Dec 1792; served in American war, and taken prisoner at Yorktown; MP Brecon Dec 1787-96, Monmouthshire 1796-1831; assumed surname and arms of Morgan in lieu of Gould 20 Nov 1792; succ. father as 2nd baronet 6 Dec 1806; DCL Oxford 13 Jun 1834; “a staunch supporter of the agricultural interest of Monmouthshire”; m. 6 Apr 1791 Mary Magdalene, only child of Capt. George Stoney, Royal Navy; d. 5 Dec 1846.

MORGAN, SIR CHARLES, BART., elder son of King Gould, Westminster, Deputy Judge Advocate Gen., and Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Shaw, Besthorpe, Norfolk; b. 25 Apr 1726; adm. Sep 1735; KS 1739; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 – Feb 1753, Faculty Student 1 Feb 1753 – res 22 Dec 1757; BA 1747; MA 1750; DCL 8 Jul 1773; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jan 1742/3, called to bar 20 Nov 1750; Deputy Judge Advocate Gen. 1754-69, Judge Advocate Gen. 1769 – res Feb 1806; Chancellor, Diocese of Salisbury 1772-99; MP Brecon Apr 1778 – Jun 1787, Breconshire Jun 1787-1806; knighted 5 May 1779; created baronet 15 Nov 1792; assumed surname of Morgan in lieu of Gould 16 Nov 1792, on his wife inheriting estates of Morgan family in South Wales; Privy Councillor 22 Sep 1802; m. 18 Feb 1758 Jane, eldest dau. of Thomas Morgan MP, Ruperra, Glamorgan, Lord Lieut., Monmouthshire and Breconshire; d. 7 Dec 1806. DNB.