The Rt Rev Edmund Robert Morgan was the seventh Suffragan Bishop of Southampton;[1] and afterwards the ninth incumbent at Truro.[2] He was born on 28 July 1888 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Ordained in 1914, he began his career with curacies at Farnham and Eastleigh. He was then Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester and after that Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Birmingham, for 13 years from 1923. From 1930 to 1936 he was also assistant secretary of the Societry for the Propagation of the Gospel. From 1936 to 1943 he was Rector of Old Alresford and also Archdeacon of Winchester,[3][4] a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate. A noted author,[5] he died on 21 September 1979 at Whiteparish, Wilts.[6]
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Preceded by Arthur Baillie Lumsdaine Karney |
Bishop of Southampton 1943 –1951 |
Succeeded by Kenneth Edward Norman Lamplugh |
Preceded by Joseph Wellington Hunkin |
Bishop of Truro 1951 –1960 |
Succeeded by John Maurice Key |
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Edmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota - July 8, 2013 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American historian, an eminent authority on early American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
Morgan was born in Minnesota, the second child of Edmund Morris Morgan and Elsie Smith Morgan. His mother was from a Yankee family that practiced Christian Science, though she distanced herself from the faith. His father, descended from Welsh coal miners taught law at the University of Minnesota. In 1925 the family moved from Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Massachusetts to allow the father to take a position as professor at Harvard Law School.
Sir Edmund Morgan was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601 and 1621.
Morgan was the second son of Henry Morgan of Llandaff and Penllwyn-Sarth. He was a captain in the army and was knighted probably at Dublin on 5 August 1599.
In 1601, Morgan was elected Member of Parliament for Wilton. He was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1602. In 1621 he was elected MP for Monmouthshire.
Morgan married a daughter of Mr Francis in around 1600. He was the brother of Henry Morgan of Llandaff, also MP for Monmouthshire.
Morgan was a medieval Bishop-elect of Durham.
Morgan was an illegitimate son of King Henry II of England and Nesta, daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, Lord of Caerleon. Nesta was married to Sir Ralph Bloet, who raised Morgan as his son. The date of his birth is unknown but presumed to be toward the end of King Henry's life.
Morgan was the provost of Beverley before being nominated to the see of Durham between 7 March and 7 May 1215. He was never consecrated because Pope Innocent III refused consecration on the grounds of his illegitimacy. Innocent offered to confirm the election and allow the episcopal consecration if Morgan would swear that he was the son of Nesta and her husband Ralph and not King Henry. Morgan, after deliberation, replied that it was unthinkable for him to deny his father the king.
After his accession to the throne of England, John, Morgan's half-brother, was known to be generous to the entire Bloet family.