Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar
{{Short description|Welsh Whig peer and member of the House of Lords}}
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{{Use British English|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable
| name = The Lord Tredegar
| honorific_suffix =
| image = Richard Buckner - Sir Charles Morgan.jpg
| caption = Portrait of Lord Tredegar by Richard Buckner, {{circa|1850}}
| office = Member of Parliament for Brecon
| term_start = 1835
| term_end = 1847
| predecessor = John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
| successor = John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
| term_start1 = 1830
| term_end1 = 1832
| predecessor1 = George Gould Morgan
| successor1 = John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
| term_start2 = 1812
| term_end2 = 1818
| predecessor2 = Sir Robert Salusbury
| successor2 = George Gould Morgan
| birth_name = Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan
| birth_date = {{birth date|1792|4|10|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1875|4|16|1792|4|10|df=y}}
| death_place =
| nationality = Welsh
| education = Harrow School
Westminster School
| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
| parents = Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet
Mary Margaret Stoney
| spouse = {{marriage|Rosamund Mundy|1827}}
| children = 11, including Charles, Godfrey, Frederick
| party = Whig
}}
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.
Early life
Morgan was born on 10 April 1792.{{cite web |last1=Morgan |first1=Walter Thomas |title=MORGAN family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth |url=https://biography.wales/article/s-MORG-TRE-1384 |website=biography.wales |publisher=Dictionary of Welsh Biography |access-date=11 December 2023}} 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,{{cite web |last1=Escott |first1=Margaret |title=MORGAN, George Gould (1794-1845), of Tredegar, Mon. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/morgan-george-1794-1845 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=11 December 2023}} Charles Augustus Samuel Morgan,{{cite DWB|id=s-MORG-TRE-1384|title=Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=25 November 2016}}{{cite book|author=Leslie Gilbert Pine|title=The New Extinct Peerage, 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant & Suspended Peerages with Genealogies and Arms|year=1972|publisher=Heraldry Today|isbn=978-0-900455-23-0|page=272}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettsbaroneta25unse#page/n143/mode/1up|title=Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|year=1824|work=Internet Archive|publisher=Odhams Press|pages=896|volume=II|edition=5th|accessdate=30 November 2016|location=London}} and the antiquarian Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan.{{cite ODNB|id=19218|first=Brynley F.|last=Roberts|title=Morgan, Charles Octavius Swinnerton}} Among his sisters were Maria (wife of Francis Miles Milman), Charlotte (wife of George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney), and Angelina (wife of Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd Baronet).{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e2odAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA306|year=1847|publisher=F. Jefferies|pages=306}}
His maternal grandfather was Capt. George Stoney of the Royal Navy.{{cite book |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1907 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited. |pages=1653–1654 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Genealogical_and_Heraldic_Dictionary_of/UxJXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1653 |access-date=11 December 2023 |language=en}} His paternal grandparents were Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet (originally Charles Gould) and the former Jane Morgan (daughter of Judge Advocate Thomas Morgan).{{cite DNB|wstitle=Gould, Charles|volume=22}} His great aunt Jane married the industrialist Samuel Homfray.{{cite DWB|id=s-HOMF-RAY-1726|title=Homfray family, of Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, iron-masters|author=Watkin William Price|access-date=6 March 2020}}
He was educated at Harrow School, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (1811).{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R. G. |title=MORGAN, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792-1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon. |url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1790-1820/member/morgan-charles-morgan-robinson-1792-1875 |website=www.histparl.ac.uk |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=11 December 2023}}
Career
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 Morgan Baronetcy, created for his grandfather in 1792.{{cite web |last1=Escott |first1=Margaret |title=MORGAN, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792-1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/morgan-charles-1792-1875 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=11 December 2023}}
He served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and later in the militia (the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, commissioned as Major on 3 April 1849),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. 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{{London Gazette |issue=22248 |date=12 April 1859 |page=1482}} and was Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire from 1866 until his death.
He served as chairman of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, chairman of the Alexandra Dock Company. He also served as president of the Royal Agricultural Society and president of Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1846 until his death in 1875.
Personal life
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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,{{cite web |title=Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Bt, 1st Baron Tredegar (1792 - 1875) 1550169 |url=https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1550169 |website=www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk |publisher=National Trust Collections |access-date=11 December 2023 |language=en}} and had five sons and six daughters, including:
- Charles Rodney Morgan (1828–1854), MP for Brecon.{{cite news |title=DEATH OF CHARLES RODNEY MORGAN, ESQ., M.P. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bristol-mercury-and-daily-post-west/136656389/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Western Countries and South Wales Advertiser |date=Jan 21, 1854 |page=4 |language=en}}
- Hon. Rosamond Marion Morgan (1830–1883), who married Sir William Style, 9th Baronet, in 1848.
- Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (1830–1913), an MP for Breconshire who never married.{{cite news |title=VISCOUNT TREDEGAR |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-viscount-tredegar/136656903/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=Mar 12, 1913 |page=16 |language=en}}
- Hon. Selina Maria Morgan (d. 1922), who married David Robertson Williamson, nephew of David Williamson, Lord Balgray, in 1853.
- Hon. Frederick Courtenay Morgan (1834–1909),{{cite news |title=SOLDIER AND POLITICIAN. DEATH OF THE HON. F. C. MORGAN |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-courier-and-lancashire-genera/136657035/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser Manchester |date=Jan 9, 1909 |page=6 |language=en}} MP for Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire who married Charlotte Anne Williamson, daughter of Charles Alexander Williamson of Lawers.{{cite news |title=COL. MORGAN'S WILL |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-wales-gazette-and-newport-news/136657226/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=The South Wales Gazette and Newport News Abertillery |date=Feb 26, 1909 |page=7 |language=en}}
- Hon. Frances Henrietta Morgan ({{Circa|1835}}–1887), who married Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet, son of Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet, in 1854.
- Hon. Ellen Sarah Morgan ({{Circa|1836}}–1916), who married Lt.-Col. Henry Gore Lindsay, chief constable of Glamorgan, in 1856.
- Hon. Georgiana Charlotte Morgan ({{Circa|1839}}–1886), who married Lord Francis Conyngham, a son of Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham, in 1857. After his death she married Lt.-Col. Alan George Chichester (a grandson of the 1st Baron Templemore), in 1882.
- Hon. Arthur John Morgan (1840–1900), who died unmarried.
- Hon. George Gould Morgan (1845–1907), who died unmarried.
- Hon. Mary Anna Morgan (d. 1924), who married Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford, in 1863.
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.{{cite book|author=Thomas Nicholas|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjIwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA785|year=1872|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader|pages=785}}
=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.{{cite ODNB |last1=Williams |first1=Chris |title=Lindsay, Lionel Arthur |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-97953 |accessdate=3 May 2020 |date=23 September 2010|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/97953 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}
Through his son Frederic, Morgan was a grandfather of Courtenay and Frederic Morgan, later the 3rd and 5th Barons Tredegar respectively, and great-grandfather of Evan and John Morgan, the 4th and 6th respective Barons Tredegar.
References
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External links
- [https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1550169 Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Bt, 1st Baron Tredegar (1792 - 1875)] at National Trust Collections
- [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-charles-robinson-morgan-17921875-1st-baron-tredegar-178135 Sir Charles Robinson Morgan (1792–1875), 1st Baron Tredegar] at ArtUK
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