MORGAN
,
HECTOR DAVIES
(
1785
-
1850
),
cleric and theological writer
,
only son of
Hector
Davies
and
Sophia
his wife; b. (in
London
?) in
1785
. Upon his grandfather's death in
1800
he succeeded to the name and arms of
Morgan
, adopted by his grandfather on his (second) marriage with
Christiana
, niece and heiress of
John
Morgan
of
Cardigan
(
1686
-
1763?
). Educated at
Trinity College
,
Oxford
, he took his
B.A.
in
1806
and his
M.A.
in
1815
, and was for 37 years
curate
of
Castle Hedingham
,
Essex
. In
1846
he retired to
Cardigan
, and d. there on
23 Dec. 1850
.
Two theological essays of his (one of them on Baptism) gained for him a prize of £50 from the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union in the diocese of S. Davids
; and in
1826
he published a work on marriage and divorce, which is described as showing ‘
accurate and extensive reading and legal knowledge
.’ He was
Bampton lecturer
in
1819
, and in
1820
was collated by
bishop
Burgess
of
S. Davids
to the
prebend of Trallwng
in the collegiate
church of Christ
at
Brecon
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
S. R. Meyrick
,
The History and Antiquities of the County of
Cardigan
, 1808; another edition, 1907
, 112.
Author:
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, M.A., (1899-1970), Aberystwyth
