Montgomeryshire
Established by the Act of Union of 1536. The Act says:
"VII. And it is enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Lordships, Townships, Parishes, Commotes and Cantreds of Mountgomery, Kedewenkerry, Cawrsland, Arustley, Keviliock, Doythur, Powesland, Clunesland, Balestey, Tempcester and Alcester . . . shall stand and be for ever, from the said Feast of All-Saints, guildable, and shall be reputed, accepted, named and taken as Parts and Members of the said County or Shire of Mountgomery; (2) and that the said Town of Mountgomery shall be named, accepted, reputed, used, had and taken, Head and Shire-town of the said County of Mountgomery; (3) and that the County or Shire-court of and for the said County or Shire of Mountgomery, shall be holden and kept the first Time at the said Town of Mountgomery, and the next Time at the Town of Maghenleth, in the same Shire or County, and so to be kept in the same two Towns alternis vicibus for ever, and in none other Place." [G.R.]
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"VII. And it is enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Lordships, Townships, Parishes, Commotes and Cantreds of Mountgomery, Kedewenkerry, Cawrsland, Arustley, Keviliock, Doythur, Powesland, Clunesland, Balestey, Tempcester and Alcester . . . shall stand and be for ever, from the said Feast of All-Saints, guildable, and shall be reputed, accepted, named and taken as Parts and Members of the said County or Shire of Mountgomery; (2) and that the said Town of Mountgomery shall be named, accepted, reputed, used, had and taken, Head and Shire-town of the said County of Mountgomery; (3) and that the County or Shire-court of and for the said County or Shire of Mountgomery, shall be holden and kept the first Time at the said Town of Mountgomery, and the next Time at the Town of Maghenleth, in the same Shire or County, and so to be kept in the same two Towns alternis vicibus for ever, and in none other Place." [G.R.]
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Morgan, Anne
Tried at Radnorshire Quarter Sessions April 1828 for stealing a silver watch (valued at 60s.) from a man in Presteigne. She was sentenced to transportation to New South Wales for 7 years and sailed on the Princess Royal.
[Beddoe; R/QS]
[Beddoe; R/QS]
Morgan, Gwenllian Elizabeth Fanny (1852-1939)
The daughter of Philip Morgan of Defynnog in Breconshire. She settled at Brecon from 1868 and became closely involved with the public life of the town and district. She was widely known in the county as "Miss Philip Morgan" but established a reputation in her own right.
She was the first woman in Wales to serve on a borough council and to become mayor (1910-11). She was a keen local historian and regular contributor to antiquarian journals. She wrote a biography of historian Theophilus Jones and was particularly interested in the 17th century metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan. She and an American friend and academic Louise Imogen Gurney worked together on an edition of Vaughan's works with biographical and historical notes. Unfortunately both died before the project could be completed, although their research was made available to Dr F.E. Hutchinson who produced his standard work on the poet in 1947. Miss Morgan was awarded an honorary MA by the University of Wales in 1925.
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She was the first woman in Wales to serve on a borough council and to become mayor (1910-11). She was a keen local historian and regular contributor to antiquarian journals. She wrote a biography of historian Theophilus Jones and was particularly interested in the 17th century metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan. She and an American friend and academic Louise Imogen Gurney worked together on an edition of Vaughan's works with biographical and historical notes. Unfortunately both died before the project could be completed, although their research was made available to Dr F.E. Hutchinson who produced his standard work on the poet in 1947. Miss Morgan was awarded an honorary MA by the University of Wales in 1925.
[DWB]
Morgan, Mary
Engraving of Judge Harding
A serving girl of the Wilkins family of Maesllwch, Radnorshire. The head of the family Walter Wilkins brought back a considerable fortune from his time serving with the East India Company in the sub-continent and started a merchant bank in Brecon. At the age of sixteen Mary Morgan bore an illegitimate child which she first tried to hide but which was later discovered killed. She accepted her guilt and displayed remorse, factors which usually led to a light sentence. However after six months in the squalor of the county jail she was brought before Judge George Harding MP at the Radnorshire Great Sessions for murder in April 1805. It has been claimed that Walter Wilkins junior was the father of Mary Morgan’s child. Judge Hardinge was a cousin of the Wilkins family and Walter Wilkins junior was himself chairman of the jury. Mary Morgan was condemned to hang, and sentence was carried out on Saturday 13th April 1805 and her body buried in unconsecrated ground in the vicar’s garden in Presteigne. The site has since been incorporated into the churchyard.
[AE; Mossop; R/X/11; R/D/X/Parris]
[AE; Mossop; R/X/11; R/D/X/Parris]
Morgan, Meredith
Son of Morgan ap Meredith of Aberhafesp who was Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1590. Meredith Morgan himself served as a magistrate from 1625 and was sheriff in 1636.
[MC 61]
[MC 61]
Morgan, Thomas (1769-1851)
Son of Philip Morgan of Defynnog, Breconshire. He attended Christ College, Brecon and Wadham and Jesus, Oxford. He was ordained and after an illness became a chaplain in the Royal Navy. He was wounded at the battle of The Glorious First of June in 1794 and was present at the Spithead mutiny in 1798, using his influence to calm the situation. He was in action again off Ushant in the same year. He served as chaplain to Admiral Cotton from 1799 to 1807, to various naval hospitals to 1817, and finally to the Portsmouth dockyard where he died in 1851. He also held livings in Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire and Hertfordshire.
[DWB]
[DWB]
Morgan, William (?1545 - 1604)
Born at Ty Mawr in the parish of Penmachno. He attended St John’s College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1568. He held many livings in a long career, including Welshpool, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llanfyllin, and Pennant Melangell. While at Welshpool and Llanrhaeadr he worked on his translation of the Bible into Welsh. In the latter parish he became involved in a quarrel with Evan Meredith of the family of Lloran Uchaf which eventually led to legal battles in the Court of Star Chamber and the Council of the Marches.
In his great work of translation he was supported and encouraged by archbishop Whitgift, and by Welshman Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster, who provided him with accommodation in London so that Morgan could oversee the final stages of preparation of his Bible. This was published in late 1588 and was to prove of huge importance not only to the success of the Reformation in Wales, but also to sustaining of Welsh literature. In 1595 he became bishop of Llandaff and 1601 moved to the wealthier see of St Asaph. Here he was active in encouraging preaching and the rebuilding of derelict churches. To support this renewal he was vigorous in his defence of the churches property and incomes in the diocese which led him into conflict with North Wales magnate Sir John Wynn.
[DWB]
In his great work of translation he was supported and encouraged by archbishop Whitgift, and by Welshman Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster, who provided him with accommodation in London so that Morgan could oversee the final stages of preparation of his Bible. This was published in late 1588 and was to prove of huge importance not only to the success of the Reformation in Wales, but also to sustaining of Welsh literature. In 1595 he became bishop of Llandaff and 1601 moved to the wealthier see of St Asaph. Here he was active in encouraging preaching and the rebuilding of derelict churches. To support this renewal he was vigorous in his defence of the churches property and incomes in the diocese which led him into conflict with North Wales magnate Sir John Wynn.
[DWB]
Morgan Evan, William (d.1754)
Alias Hugh Lloyd. On 1 March 1754, in the parish of Llowes, with an iron pin he struck the head of Margaret, wife of Henry Probert, giving her several mortal wounds. Tried at Radnorshire Great Sessions. He was ordered to be hanged on Wednesday 10 April and his body afterwards to be hanged in chains near the place where the murder was committed.
[Mossop]
[Mossop]