Lyttleton Morgan
{{Short description|American academic, preacher and university administrator}}
Lyttleton Morgan (1813 – 1895) was the first chairman of the board of trustees of Morgan State University, which was renamed in his honor (it was founded as the Centenary Biblical Institute).{{cite web|url=http://www.morgan.edu/About_MSU/University_History.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621030719/http://www.morgan.edu/About_MSU/University_History.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-06-21 |title=Morgan State University - Brief History of Morgan State University |publisher=Morgan.edu |accessdate=2013-12-27 }}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lyttleton Morgan
| birth_date = {{birth date|1813|06|10}}
| birth_place = Bath County, Virginia
| death_date = {{death date and age|1895|02|28|1813|06|10}}
| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
| resting_place = Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
| nationality = American
| occupation = {{Hlist
| Preacher
| Chairman of the board of trustees of Centenary Biblical Institute
| Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Susan Rigby Dallam Morgan|1840|1887|end=died}}
}}
Career
Rev. Morgan was "station-preacher" meaning that he generally traveled to different churches to preach the Gospel, without having a church of his own. He had preached at every prominent church in the Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Conference.{{cite web|url=http://www.eapoe.org/people/morgansr.htm |title=Susan Morgan (Poe people) |accessdate=2011-07-27 |author= |date= |year= |publisher=Poe Society }} Morgan also served as chaplain to the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1852.{{cite web|url=http://chaplain.house.gov/chaplaincy/history.html|title= History of the Chaplaincy
|accessdate=2011-07-27 |author= |date= |year= |publisher=Chaplain, U.S. House of Representatives
}} He was married to Susan Rigby Dallam Morgan, a poet of the Poe era.
Morgan State University, in Baltimore, used to be the Centenary Biblical Institute of the Methodist Episcopal, but was renamed in his honor in 1890.{{cite web|url=http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/25univ/morgan/html/morganf.html|title= Morgan State University |accessdate=2011-07-27 |author= |date= |year= |publisher=Maryland State Archives}}
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Category:19th-century American people
Category:Chaplains of the United States House of Representatives
Category:American Christian clergy
Category:Morgan State University people
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