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 .
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]
Charles Rodney Morgan (1828–1854), MP for
Brecon .
[17]
Hon. Rosamond Marion Morgan (1830–1883), who married
Sir William Style, 9th Baronet , in 1848.
[8]
Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (1830–1913), an MP for
Breconshire who never married.
[18]
Hon. Selina Maria Morgan (d. 1922), who married David Robertson Williamson, nephew of
David Williamson, Lord Balgray , in 1853.
[8]
Hon.
Frederick Courtenay Morgan (1834–1909),
[19] MP for
Monmouthshire and
South Monmouthshire who married Charlotte Anne Williamson, daughter of Charles Alexander Williamson of
Lawers .
[20]
Hon. Frances Henrietta Morgan (
c. 1835 –1887), who married
Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet , son of
Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet , in 1854.
[8]
Hon. Ellen Sarah Morgan (
c. 1836 –1916), who married Lt.-Col. Henry Gore Lindsay,
chief constable of Glamorgan , in 1856.
[8]
Hon. Georgiana Charlotte Morgan (
c. 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.
[8]
Hon. Arthur John Morgan (1840–1900), who died unmarried.
[8]
Hon. George Gould Morgan (1845–1907), who died unmarried.
[8]
Hon. Mary Anna Morgan (d. 1924), who married
Robert Devereux, 16th Viscount Hereford , in 1863.
[8]
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
^ Morgan, Walter Thomas.
"MORGAN family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth" . biography.wales .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . Retrieved 11 December 2023 .
^ Escott, Margaret.
"MORGAN, George Gould (1794-1845), of Tredegar, Mon" . www.historyofparliamentonline.org .
History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 11 December 2023 .
^
"Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 November 2016 .
^ 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 .
^
"Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage" .
Internet Archive (5th ed.). London: Odhams Press. 1824. p. 896. Retrieved 30 November 2016 .
^ 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.
^ Watkin William Price.
"Homfray family, of Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, iron-masters" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 6 March 2020 .
^
a
b 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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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c 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 .
^
"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 .
^ 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.)
External links
Lindsay family tree
Family tree of the Lindsay family