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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.

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.

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.