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Authorised form of nameMorgan; Sir; Charles (1760 - 1846)
Other forms of surnameGould
Dates1760 - 1846
Date of birth04 February 1760
Date of death05 December 1846
OccupationSoldier
ActivityEducation:
DCL (1834, created)
Career:
MP for Brecon (1787-1796); MP for Monmouth (1796-1831); Captain, Coldstream Guards; Lieutenant Colonel; spent large amounts of money on his estates and on agricultural improvements; erected a cattle market at Newport
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/05/1816
RelationshipsSon of Sir Charles Gould 1st Bart of Tredegar who took the name Morgan the day after he was created Baronet, and his wife Jane daughter of Thomas Morgan of Rupera, Glamorganshire; Sir Charles (FRS 1816) was Charles Gould until 1792 and succeeded to the Baronetcy of Tredegar (1806); married (1791?) Mary Magdalen, daughter of George Storey (died 1804); father of Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan (FRS 1832)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA7449
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1816/06Morgan, Sir Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003166Morgan, Sir Charlesnd
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