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.

MORGAN, CHARLES OCTAVIUS SWINNERTON, fourth son of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. (adm. 1771, qv); b. 15 Sep 1803; adm. 19 Jun 1816 (Packharness', later Stelfox's, head of house 1821); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jun 1822; BA 1825; MA 1832; MP (Conservative) Monmouthshire Feb 1841-74; FSA 1830, Vice-Pres.; FRS 2 Feb 1832; a well-known antiquary and collector of gold and silver plate; DL Monmouthshire, JP Monmouthshire 1830; d. unm. 5 Aug 1888. DNB.

Morgan, Arthur Cecil, son of Arthur John Morgan, of Cinderford, Gloucs, by Maud Mary, daughter of John Edward Axten, of London; b. Feb. 4, 1900; adm. Jan. 15, 1914 (G); left July 1918; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Hilary 1919; B.A. 1921; called to the bar at the Inner Temple April 25, 1923; served in Great War I; Lieut. R.G.A. Jan. 7, 1918; m. Oct. 11, 1923, Gladwys, daughter of John Hughes, of Regents Park; d. Feb. 13, 1947.

MORETON, WILLIAM, eldest son of Right Rev. William Moreton, Bishop of Meath, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir Richard Atkins, Bart.; bapt. 8 May 1683; adm.; KS (aqged 15) 1698; left 1701; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Mar 1702, matr. 1702; migrated to Trinity Coll. Dublin; BA 1708; MA 1711; ordained; Prebendary of Connor from 8 Apr 1731; buried St. John’s, Dublin 6 Apr 1736.

MORETON, ALBERT; b.; adm.; KS; in 1604 James I directed the electors to elect him to Trinity Coll. Cambridge at the next election, but the Master of Trinity refused to accept him on the ground of Moreton’s ignorance (CSPDom 1603-10, 185; Ball, Cambridge Papers, 54). This entry by G. F. Russell Barker and A. H. Stenning seems to relate to the future Sir Albertus Morton, a King’s Scholar at Eton, elected from there to King’s Coll. Cambridge. The CSP Dom entry is under the heading “The King to the Governors of [Westminster ?] College”, indicating that the word “Westminster” does not appear, or could not be read, in the document cited, and all that it says is that the King “requires them to prefer Albert Moreton, a scholar there, to Cambridge at the next election”, a phraseology perfectly compatible with this being a request that Albertus Morton should be elected from Eton to King’s, especially as a letter sent to the Westminster electors should have been addressed to the Dean of Westminster and not to a body of “Governors”. W. W. Rouse Ball believed that the request was for the election of Albert Moreton, whom he clearly did not identify as Albertus Morton, from Westminster to Trinity, and states that Neale declined the request on the ground of Moreton’s ignorance, but he does not cite a source for the statement about Neale, and it seems most unlikely that an Albert Moreton and an Albertus Morton were candidates for election from different schools to different Cambridge colleges more or less simultaneously]

MORER, THOMAS, son of Maurice Morer, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS 1668; failed to obtain election to either University 1670; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1671, aged 19; BA 1675; ordained; Vicar of Hillingdon, Middlesex 13 Nov 1677-96; Prebendary of Salisbury from 21 Jan 1687/8; Rector of St. Anne and St. Agnes, London, from 18 Apr 1696; m. Margaret, sister of James Heywood (qv); d. 20 Dec 1715.

MORELL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1740 (Morel's); left 1745. [Evidently John Morel, son of John Morel and Philippa --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 20 Apr 1732; a brother of William Morel (qv)].

MOREL, WILLIAM, son of John Morel, London; b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1738 (Morel's); left 1745; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1746, aged 17, scholar 22 May 1747, matr. 1747; BA 1749/50; MA 1761; ordained deacon (London) 2 Dec 1751, priest (Peterborough) 17 Mar 1753; Vicar of Harrowden, Northants 20 Mar 1753-80; Reading Chaplain, Whitehall (occurs 1783); presumably Rev. W. Morel who had the boarding house at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1768 – 1781, and who is likely to have been the son of Mrs Morel who had a boarding house in Cowley Street 1738-54 and was the dame at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1754-68; m. (widower at death); d. 23 Sep 1808. [Evidently son of John Nicolas Morel, St. James, Westminster, and Philippa Chancey, Chelsea, who m. 1727; John Nickolo Morel, St. John’s, Westminster, gentleman, will proved PCC 5 Jan 1749, Philippia Morel, widow, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, will proved PCC 3 Mar 1768]

MORECROFT, EDWARD, son of Rev. Ferdinand Morecroft, Rector of Stanhope, co. Durham, and Prebendary of Durham, and Margaret, dau. of Francis James DCL; b.; adm.; KS 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1636, matr. 15 Jul 1636, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1640; ordained; Rector of Redmarshall, co. Durham, from 23 Nov 1668; m. 3 Sep 1639 Jeronyma, dau. of James Hilton, Dyons, co. Durham; buried Redmarshall, co. Durham 18 Oct 1694.