MORGAN
,
GEORGE CADOGAN
(
1754
-
1798
),
Arian minister and tutor, and scientist
;
b. in
1754
at
Bridgend, Glam.
, second son of
William
Morgan
,
physician
, and his wife
Sarah
, who was a sister of
Richard
Price
(q.v.)
the
philosopher
— another of their sons was
William
Morgan
(
1750
-
1833
) (q.v.)
. From
Cowbridge
school
he went up, in
1771
, to
Jesus College
,
Oxford
, intending to take
Anglican
orders, but he changed his theological views and went to
Hoxton Academy
. He was
minister
at
Norwich
(
1776-85
) and at
Yarmouth
(
1785-6
); then he became
assistant
to his uncle
Richard
Price
at
Hackney Academy
. He resigned in
1791
and became a
private tutor
; he won some fame as a
lecturer on science
. Like his uncle (whose biography he began to write), he was a
Radical
, and he visited
France
in
1789
. He d.
17 Nov. 1798
.
Sources:
-
Caroline E. Williams
,
A Welsh family from the beginning of the
18th century
(London, 1885)
, privately printed,
1885
(highly interesting);
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
(by
D. Lleufer Thomas
).
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
