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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.