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Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar

Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar

Welsh Whig peer and a member of the House of Lords

Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (10 April 1792 – 16 April 1875), known as Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Baronet from 1846 to 1859, was a Welsh Whig peer and a member of the House of Lords.

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Early life

Morgan was born on 10 April 1792.[1] He was the eldest son of Lt.-Col. Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Mary Margaret Stoney. Among his younger brothers were George Gould Morgan, MP for Brecon,[2] Charles Augustus Samuel Morgan,[3][4][5] and the antiquarian Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan.[6] Among his sisters were Maria (wife of Francis Miles Milman),[7] Charlotte (wife of George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney),[7] and Angelina (wife of Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd Baronet).[7]

His maternal grandfather was Capt. George Stoney of the Royal Navy.[8] His paternal grandparents were Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet (originally Charles Gould) and the former Jane Morgan (daughter of Judge Advocate Thomas Morgan).[9] His great aunt Jane married the industrialist Samuel Homfray.[10]

He was educated at Harrow School, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (1811).[11]

Career

Portrait of Lord Tredegar, between 1840 and 1850

He was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon in 1812 and was re-elected in 1830 and 1835. Upon his father's death in 1846, he succeeded the baronetcy of Tredegar, created for his grandfather in 1800.[12]

He served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and later in the militia (the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, commissioned as Major on 3 April 1849),[13] and was appointed High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1821–22 and High Sheriff of Brecknockshire for 1850–51. He was created Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth on 16 April 1859[14][15] and was Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire from 1866 until his death.[11]

He served as chairman of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, chairman of the Alexandra Dock Company.[16] He also served as president of the Royal Agricultural Society and president of Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1846 until his death in 1875.[16]

Personal life

Tredegar House

In late 1827, Morgan married Rosamund Mundy, the daughter of Maj.-Gen. Godfrey Basil Meynell Mundy and Sarah Brydges Rodney. Together, they lived at Tredegar House, where he was a noted breeder of shorthorn cattle,[16] and had five sons and six daughters, including:[15]

Lord Tredegar died on 16 April 1875 and was succeeded by his second son Godfrey as his eldest son, Charles, predeceased him unmarried and without legitimate male issue.[15]

Descendants

Through his daughter Ellen, he was a grandfather of Lt.-Col. Morgan Lindsay, Maj.-Gen. George Mackintosh Lindsay, Lionel Arthur Lindsay, who was also chief constable of Glamorgan.[21]

Through his son Frederick,[19] he was a grandfather of Blanche Morgan (wife of Charles Twysden Hoare), Violet Morgan (wife of Maj. Basil St. John Mundy), Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar and Frederick Morgan, 5th Baron Tredegar.[8]

References

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    Escott, Margaret. "MORGAN, George Gould (1794-1845), of Tredegar, Mon". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
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    Leslie Gilbert Pine (1972). The New Extinct Peerage, 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant & Suspended Peerages with Genealogies and Arms. Heraldry Today. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-900455-23-0.
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    "Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage". Internet Archive (5th ed.). London: Odhams Press. 1824. p. 896. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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    Roberts, Brynley F. "Morgan, Charles Octavius Swinnerton". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19218. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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    The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England). F. Jefferies. 1847. p. 306.
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    Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1907. pp. 1653–1654. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Gould, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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    Watkin William Price. "Homfray family, of Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, iron-masters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
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    Thorne, R. G. "MORGAN, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792-1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon". www.histparl.ac.uk. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    Escott, Margaret. "MORGAN, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792-1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    Arthur Sleigh, The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List, April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9.
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    "No. 22248". The London Gazette. 12 April 1859. p. 1482.
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    Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales: Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry ... with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families. Longmans, Green, Reader. p. 785.
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    "Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Bt, 1st Baron Tredegar (1792 - 1875) 1550169". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. National Trust Collections. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    "DEATH OF CHARLES RODNEY MORGAN, ESQ., M.P." The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Western Countries and South Wales Advertiser. 21 January 1854. p. 4. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    "VISCOUNT TREDEGAR". The Guardian. 12 March 1913. p. 16. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    "SOLDIER AND POLITICIAN. DEATH OF THE HON. F. C. MORGAN". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser Manchester. 9 January 1909. p. 6. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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    "COL. MORGAN'S WILL". The South Wales Gazette and Newport News Abertillery. 26 February 1909. p. 7. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  21. [21]
    Williams, Chris (23 September 2010). "Lindsay, Lionel Arthur". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97953. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 3 May 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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