Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar

The Right Honourable

The Lord Tredegar
The Right Honourable; The Lord Tredegar
	Portrait by Richard Buckner
Born	10 April 1792
Died	16 April 1875 (aged 83)
Nationality	Welsh
Political party	Whig
Spouse	Rosamund Mundy (m. 1827)
Children	Charles Rodney Morgan (son) ; Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (son) ; Frederick Courtenay Morgan (son)
Parent	Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet (father);

Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (10 April 1792 – 16 April 1875), was a Welsh Whig peer and a member of the House of Lords.

He was the son of Lt.-Col. Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Mary Margaret Stoney, and was educated at Harrow School, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (1811).

He was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon in 1812 and was re-elected in 1830 and 1835.

He served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and later in the militia (the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, commissioned as Major on 3 April 1849),[1] 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[2][3] and was Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire from 1866 until his death.

He died in April 1875. He had married Rosamund, the daughter of Major-General Godfrey Basil Meynell Mundy, in late 1827 and had five sons and six daughters. He was succeeded by his son Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar.[3]

References

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.
"No. 22248". The London Gazette. 12 April 1859. p. 1482.
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.

"MORGAN, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 July 2013.

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[1] 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.

[2] "No. 22248". The London Gazette. 12 April 1859. p. 1482.

[Nicholas1872-3] 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.