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.