MORGAN, WILLIAM, son of John ap Morgan ap Llywelyn, Penmachno, Caernarvonshire, and Lowri, dau. of William ap John ap Madog; b.; adm. (B. Willis, Survey of the Cath. Ch. of St. Asaph, 1720, 83); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sub-sizar (full sizar from 9 Jun 1565), matr. 26 Feb 1564/5; BA 1567/8; MA 1571; BD 1578; DD 1583; ordained deacon 16 Apr 1568, priest 21 Dec 1568 (both Ely); Vicar of Welshpool, Montgomeryshire 8 Aug 1575; one of the Cambridge Univ. preachers 1578; Vicar of Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant, Denbighshire 1 Oct 1578; Rector of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire 1579; Rector of Pennant Melangell, Montgomeryshire 1588; Rector of Denbigh, Denbighshire 1594; consecrated Bishop of Llandaff 20 Jul 1595; translated to St. Asaph 21 Jul 1601; translated the Bible into Welsh, with the assistance of other scholars; a copy was presented by Morgan to the Chapter Library 20 Nov 1588; m. 1st, Ellen Salesbury; m. 2nd, Catherine, dau. of George ap Richard ap John; d. 10 Sep 1604. DNB.
MORGAN, WILLIAM, son of James Morgan, London; b.; adm. 24 Jan 1783; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Nov 1788, aged 18, matr. 1788; migrated to Clare Coll. 15 Oct 1789. [Perhaps William Morgan, son of James Morgan and Ann Adams (IGI); bapt. St. Botolph, Bishopsgate 8 Jan 1770 (IGI); see also Thomas Morgan (adm. 1785)].
MORGAN, WILLIAM, son of Richard Morgan, Usk, Monmouthshire; b.; at school under Osbaldeston seven years (Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., i, 31); BB; Min. Can. 1630; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 11 Jun 1636, aged 18, Bishop Williams scholar 8 Nov 1636, matr. 1637; 7th in “ordo” 1639/40; BA 1639/40; MA 1643; MD 1652; Bishop Williams Fellow, St. John’s Coll., 20 Mar 1642/3 – 24 Jun 1645; served with Lord Capel’s Regt. in Civil War; ordained; Rector of St. Florence, Pembrokeshire, from 11 Sep 1660; d. 1662.
MORGAN, WILLIAM, elder son of Sir William Morgan KB MP, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, and Lady Rachel Cavendish, elder dau. of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (qv); b. 28 Mar 1725; adm. Jun 1738 (Watts'); left 1742; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1743; MP Monmouthshire from 1747; d. unm. 16 Jul 1763.
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, WALTER LLOYD, eldest son of Charles Morgan, Elvaston Place, South Kensington, solicitor, and Mary Sadelbia, dau. of John Morgan, Cadogan Place, Chelsea; b. 6 Nov 1845; adm. 1 Feb 1858 (G); left Aug 1863; d. unm. 29 May 1868.
MORGAN, THOMAS; b.; adm. 1 Jun 1785. [Perhaps Thomas Morgan, son of James Morgan and Anne (Adams), bapt. St. Botolph, Bishopsgate 7 Apr 1777 (IGI) : see also William Morgan (adm. 1783, qv)].
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, Peter Maurice, son of Rev. Ernest Arundel Morgan, Rector of Beckenham, Kent, and Preb. of St Paul's; b. 31 May 1907; adm. Jan. 1912 (H); left Apr. 1924; adm. a solicitor Mar. 1930; practised in London; RAFVR in WW2 (Flt Lieut.); m. 12 June 1928 Vivien, d. of William Woods Mitchell of Arundel, Sussex; d. 3 June 1961.