Charles Morgan (automaker)

{{Short description|English businessman}}

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| birth_date = 29 July 1951{{cite book | last=Hill | first=Ken| title=Completely Morgan: 4-Wheelers from 1968 | publisher=Veloce Publishing Ltd | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-84584-945-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LlOzCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT271 | access-date=8 March 2016| page=271}}

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Charles Peter Henry Morgan (born 29 July 1951) is the former managing director of the Morgan Motor Company, a UK car manufacturer.

The grandson of the founder of the company, H.F.S. Morgan, and the son of the company's former chairman Peter Morgan, Charles Morgan, who had been educated at Oundle public school in the 1960s, joined the family firm full-time in 1985. Previously he had worked for 10 years as a news cameraman for ITN and then briefly in the publishing industry.[http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/about_morgan/1980.html Morgan Motor Company web-site] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326120837/http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/about_morgan/1980.html |date=26 March 2010 }} After the Morgan Motor Company was featured on the BBC's Troubleshooter in 1991, he obtained an MBA.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/businesstruth/5314300/Morgan-cars-Classic-reversal-of-fortune.html Dunne, Helen; “Classic reversal of fortune”], The Telegraph, 12 May 2009 In 2013, he was removed as Morgan's managing director and continued as strategy director until October 2013, when he was voted off the company's board. He remains a minority shareholder.{{cite news |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |title=Charles Morgan describes distress at being ousted from board role |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/10389726/Charles-Morgan-describes-distress-at-being-ousted-from-board-role.html |accessdate=12 November 2013 |last=Ping Chan |first=Szu |location=London |date=18 October 2013}}{{cite news |newspaper=BBC |title=Charles Morgan removed from world-famous UK car firm |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-24759054 |accessdate=12 November 2013 |date=31 October 2013}}

He and the company and other family shareholders promptly sued each other.

In 2019, he and the family sold their entire interest in the company to InvestIndustriel.