19-1185: Charles Morgan may refer to: Politicians [ edit ] Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet (1726–1806), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1778–1787, and Breconshire, 1787–1806 Charles Morgan (Breconshire MP, born 1736) (1736–1787), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1763–1769 Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet (1760–1846), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1787–1796, and Monmouthshire, 1796–1831 Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (1792–1875), MP for Brecon, 1812–1818, 1830–1832 and 1835–1847 Octavius Morgan (Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, 1803–1888), British politician, historian and antiquary; MP for Monmouthshire, 1841–1874 Charles Rodney Morgan (1828–1854), British Member of Parliament for Brecon Charles Henry Morgan (1842–1912), US congressman from Missouri Charles Morgan (Australian politician) (1897–1967), Australian politician Sportsmen [ edit ] Charles Morgan (Surrey cricketer) (1839–1904), English cricketer Charles Morgan (Queensland cricketer) (1877–1942), Australian cricketer Charles Morgan (coach) (c. 1890–19??), American football coach in
38-561: A daughter of Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett , he married the Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan in 1923. They had two children: Dame Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey , and Roger Morgan , who became Librarian of the House of Lords Library . He was the drama critic of The Times from the 1920s until 1938, and contributed weekly articles on the London theatre to The New York Times . He wrote
57-469: A publication now in the public domain : Stephen, Leslie ; Lee, Sidney , eds. (1890). " Gould, Charles ". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Charles Langbridge Morgan Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 – 6 February 1958) was a British playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and
76-555: A series of articles for The Times Literary Supplement under the byline "Menander's Mirror" from 1942, and many articles for The Sunday Times . His first play, The Flashing Stream (1938), had successful runs in London and Paris but was not well received in New York. The River Line (1952) was originally written as a novel in 1949 and concerned the activities of escaped British prisoners of war in France during World War II . He
95-405: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 1st Baronet (25 April 1726 – 7 December 1806) was an English Judge Advocate-General . From his birth until 1792 he was known as Charles Gould . The elder son of King Gould of Westminster, who died deputy judge advocate in 1756, he
114-595: Is thought to be a caricature of him. His posthumous reputation was initially higher in France than in Britain, but has begun a new rise in recent years with the republication of various novels (including Capuchin Classics' The Voyage with an Introduction by Oxford's Valentine Cunningham in 2009), his poetry (edited by Peter Holland for Scarthin Books in 2008) and an edition of his plays published by Oberon Books in 2013. He
133-697: The Breconshire 1787–1806. He was knighted on 5 May 1779, and made a baronet on 30 October 1792, That same year he changed surname to Morgan on inheriting the Rhiwperra and Tredegar estates from the Morgan family. In 1802 he was made a privy counsellor . He was elected as a Bailiff to the board of the Bedford Level Corporation in 1781, a position he held until his death. Morgan died at Tredegar on 7 December 1806. In 1751 Gould
152-833: The Revolutionary War Charles W. Morgan (naval officer) (1790–1853), officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 Charles Hale Morgan (1834–1875), American Civil War general Others [ edit ] Charles Morgan (Master of Clare College, Cambridge) (1678–1736), Master of Clare 1726–1736 Charles Morgan (businessman) (1795–1878), American railroad and shipping magnate Charles Waln Morgan (1796–1861), whaling industry executive, banker and businessman Charles Hill Morgan (1831–1911), American mechanical engineer and inventor Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr. (1844–1917), co-founded
171-772: The United States Charles Morgan (Victoria cricketer) (1900–1965), Australian cricketer Charles Morgan (Nottinghamshire cricketer) (1917–2001), English cricketer Charlie Morgan (soccer) (born 1962), retired American soccer defender Charlie Morgan (cricketer) (born 1989), English cricketer Charles Morgan (racing driver) , American racing driver, see 2007 Rolex Sports Car Series season Military [ edit ] Charles Morgan (military governor) (c. 1575–1643), military governor of Bergen op Zoom Charles Morgan (East India Company officer) (1741–1818), Commander-in-Chief, India Charles Morgan (American soldier) (1745–1803), spy during
190-558: The defence of Antwerp . He was interned in the Netherlands which provided the setting for his best-selling novel The Fountain . Some of his early poems were published in The Westminster Gazette . "To America" (1917) was included in A Treasury of World Poetry , edited by George Herbert Clarke. After World War I , he took his degree at Brasenose College, Oxford . After an unsuccessful relationship with Mary,
209-706: The law firm Morgan Lewis Charles Langbridge Morgan (engineer) (1855–1940), British civil engineer Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958), English critic, novelist and playwright Charles Morgan (actor) (1909–1994), Welsh actor Charles Morgan Jr. (1930–2009), U.S. civil rights attorney Charles Morgan (automaker) (born 1951), ex-MD of Morgan Motor Company Charlie Morgan (musician) (born 1955), English drummer and percussionist Charles A. Morgan III , American psychiatrist See also [ edit ] Charles W. Morgan (ship) , an American whaling ship, named for Charles Waln Morgan Charlie Morgan (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
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#1732798337207228-733: The relation between them. Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom ( The Voyage , The River Line ), through passionate love seen from within ( Portrait in a Mirror ) and without ( A Breeze of Morning ), to the conflict of good and evil ( The Judge's Story ) and the enchanted boundary of death ( Sparkenbroke ). He was married to Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan . His maternal grandparents had emigrated to Australia from Pembrokeshire . His paternal grandparents were from Gloucestershire and Devon in England. His parents were married in Australia. His father, Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan ,
247-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Morgan&oldid=1228316269 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
266-649: Was a consummate and committed stylist, from newspaper reviews to major novels a passionate craftsman of English prose. He was also very popular in Italy, especially in the 1950s. He spent long periods in the North, and in Tuscany. He wrote and set Sparkenbroke in Lucca. Morgan employed Esmé Valerie Fletcher as his private secretary when she moved to London from Leeds in her determination to enter London literary circles and find
285-673: Was a railway civil engineer, and at one time was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Morgan himself was born in Bromley , Kent . He was educated at the Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth and served as a midshipman in the China Fleet until 1913, when he returned to England to take the entrance examinations for Oxford. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the navy but was sent with Churchill's Naval Division to
304-564: Was a scholar of Westminster School in 1739. He was elected to Christ Church, Oxford , 1743, where he attained a B.A. in 1747 and a M.A. in 1750. He was made an honorary D.C.L. in 1773. Gould was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1750, and in 1771 was appointed judge advocate-general. He came into the favour of George III, was made chancellor of Salisbury in 1772, and became chamberlain of Brecon, Radnor, and Glamorgan. He sat as Member of Parliament for Brecon 1778–87, and for
323-577: Was awarded the French Légion d'honneur in 1936, a promotion in 1945, and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949. From 1953 to 1956, he was the President of PEN International , the worldwide association of writers. While Morgan enjoyed an immense reputation during his lifetime, particularly in France, and was awarded the 1940 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, he
342-635: Was one of the authors of the Oxford poem on the occasion of the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales . In 1758 Gould married Jane, eldest daughter of Thomas Morgan . On the death of his wife's brother John Morgan without issue in 1792, he inherited the Tredegar Estate. He then took by royal licence the surname and arms of Morgan (20 November 1792). He was succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son Charles . The other children were: [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from
361-486: Was sometimes criticised for excessive seriousness, and for some time he was rather neglected; he once claimed that the "sense of humour by which we are ruled avoids emotion and vision and grandeur of spirit as a weevil avoids the sun. It has banished tragedy from our theatre, eloquence from our debates, glory from our years of peace, splendour from our wars…" The character Gerard Challis in Stella Gibbons 's Westwood
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