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Thomas Morgan (died 1645)
Thomas Morgan may refer to: Military * Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet (1604–1679), general of the English Civil War * Thomas Morgan (navy chaplain) (1769–1851), navy chaplain during the French Revolutionary Wars and chaplain of Portsmouth Dockyard * Thomas R. Morgan (born 1930), general in the US Marine Corps Politics * Thomas Morgan (MP died 1565), MP for Monmouthshire * Thomas Morgan (died 1595) (1542–1595), MP for Shaftesbury and Wilton * Thomas Morgan (MP died 1603), MP for Monmouthshire * Thomas Morgan (died 1645), MP for Wilton * Sir Thomas Morgan, 3rd Baronet (1684–1716), Member of Parliament for Herefordshire, 1712–1716 * Thomas E. Morgan (1906–1995), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * Thomas Morgan (judge advocate) (1702–1769), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1723–1734, Monmouthshire, 1734–1747, and Breconshire, 1747–1769 * Thomas Morgan (of Dderw) (1664–1700), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1689–1690 and 1698–1700, Monmouthshire, 1690â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet
Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet (1604 – 13 April 1679) was a professional soldier from Wales who fought for Parliament during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. As deputy Commander-in-Chief, Scotland, he played an important role in the 1660 Stuart Restoration and was rewarded with being made a baronet. Biography Morgan was born in Wales. At 16, having at that time little knowledge of any language but Welsh, Morgan enlisted in Sir Horace Vere's Protestant volunteer expedition which fought in the Thirty Years' War. Morgan fought in the Low Countries and in particular assisted the Dutch in the decisive victory at the battle of the Slaak in 1631. He fought under Thomas Fairfax in the First English Civil War. In 1645 he was appointed parliamentary governor of Gloucester. In 1646 he took Chepstow Castle and Monmouth, and besieged Raglan Castle. From 1651 to 1657 he assisted General George Monck in Scotland and was promoted to major-general. He was second in command in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (of Machen)
Sir Thomas Morgan (c. 1589 – 13 May 1664 or 18 October 1666) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. Biography Morgan was the eldest son of Sir William Morgan. He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1650. In 1654, Morgan was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire in the First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the Hou ... after two members chose to take up other seats. Morgan died on either 13 May 1664 or 18 October 1666. Family Morgan married firstly Rachel Kemys, widow of David Kemys and daughter of Sir Robert Hopton. She was sister to Ralph Lord Hopton. He married secondly Elizabeth Windham, daughter of Francis or Thomas Windham of Sandhills Somerset. Notes References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Thoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (bassist)
Thomas Morgan (born 14 August 1981) is an American jazz bassist. Biography Morgan began playing the cello at 7, eventually switching to upright-bass at 14. In 2003 he received his bachelor's degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Harvie Swartz and Garry Diall. He has also studied briefly with Ray Brown and Peter Herbert. Morgan has worked with David Binney, Steve Coleman, Joey Baron, Josh Roseman, Brad Shepik, Steve Cardenas, Timuçin Şahin, Kenny Wollesen, Gerald Cleaver, Adam Rogers and Kenny Werner. He has also collaborated with Jakob Bro, Dan Tepfer, Jim Black, John Abercrombie, and Masabumi Kikuchi, and he has performed with the Sylvie Courvoisier- Mark Feldman Quartet. Morgan was featured prominently on the 2017 ECM album ''Small Town'' in a duet setting with guitarist Bill Frisell. The album documents a 2016 live performance at the Village Vanguard. In 2014, Morgan's own trio, featuring keyboardist Pete Rende and drummer Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (footballer)
Thomas Morgan (born 30 March 1977) is an Irish former footballer. Career Morgan had made his first appearance in the green shirt for the under-15s - against Northern Ireland in Belfast, as captain under manager Joe McGrath and had also played at under-16 and under-18. Thomas Morgan came to prominence during the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championships where he captained the Irish team which won the bronze medal. During those championships he lined up alongside the like of Damien Duff to face players like Juan Román Riquelme and Esteban Cambiasso of Argentina. At that time he was on the books of Blackburn Rovers and was highly regarded by the club having signed on his sixteenth birthday. There were offers to play with English lower league clubs but Morgan decided to return to Ireland and signed for St Patrick's Athletic where he won back to back league titles in '98 and '99. Morgan moved to Newry Town F.C. in the Irish League making a scoring debut at Omagh Town on 26 August 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (bishop)
Thomas Oliver Morgan (born 20 January 1941) is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. Morgan was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and trained for the priesthood at King's College London and Tyndale Hall, Bristol. He began his ordained ministry as a curate at the Church of the Saviour, Blackburn, after which he was the incumbent of Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. After being rector of Kinistino he became Archdeacon of Indian Missions in the Diocese of Saskatchewan and then the diocesan Bishop of Saskatchewan in 1985. He was to be the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Morgan received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in zoology in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit fly ''Drosophila melanogaster''. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University's Schermerhorn Hall, Morgan demonstrated that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics. During his distinguished career, Morgan wrote 22 books and 370 scientific papers. As a result of his work, ''Drosophila'' became a major model organism in contemporary genetics. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (Afanwyson)
Thomas Morgan (also known by his bardic name, ''Afanwyson'') was a Welsh writer, historian and Baptist minister. In his work as a writer, he is remembered for his biographical works and especially his collections on Welsh place names. Early life and career Born in Cwmafan on 9 March 1850, Morgan was the nephew of the deacon and bard David Michael (Dewi Afan) whose own poetry was characterised as "Biblical and ethical" in its nature. Morgan began his training as a Baptist minister in 1875 at the Pontypool Baptist College, before taking up the role of minister at Caersalem chapel, Dowlais three years later. Morgan would remain at Caersalem for the next seventeen years, during which time he would become the co-editor of ''Y Bedyddiwr Bach'' in 1882 and ''Yr Heuwr'' in 1890, as well as publishing the first edition of one of his most notable works, ''The Place-Names of Wales'' in 1887. Later years In 1895 Morgan moved to the Ainon Chapel, Cardiff where he ministered until he again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charles Morgan
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1783 – 28 August 1843) was an English physician and writer with an interest in philosophical and miscellaneous subject matter. His wife was the novelist Lady Morgan. Biography Morgan was born in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury,Munk, p. 93 a son of one John Morgan, and was raised in Smithfield, London. As a young man, he was given an annual income of £300. He studied at Eton and Cambridge and graduated from Peterhouse in 1809. He established a medical practice in London where the focus of his work was the study of cowpox and smallpox. He was a friend and supporter of Edward Jenner.Dixon, p. 372. He was accepted to the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1810. He married a Miss Hammond but she died in childbirth in 1810. Their daughter, Anne Hammond Morgan, survived. With his daughter, he moved to Ireland after his wife's death where he took a post as physician to John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn. Abercorn's wife, the Marchioness Lady Anne Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (deist)
Thomas Morgan (died 1743) was an English deist. Biography Morgan was first a dissenter preacher, then a practicer of healing among the Quakers, and finally a writer. He was the author of a large three-volume work entitled ''The Moral Philosopher''. It is a dialogue between a Christian Jew, Theophanes, and a Christian deist, Philalethes. According to Orr, this book did not add many new ideas to the deistic movement, but did vigorously restate and give new illustrations to some of its main ideas. The first volume of ''The Moral Philosopher'' appeared anonymously in the year 1737. It was the most important of the three volumes, the other two being mostly replies to critics of the first volume. John Leland, John Chapman and others answered the first volume of Morgan's book, and it was these answers that prompted Morgan to write the second and third volumes. His particular antipathy was to Judaism and the Old Testament, although he by no means accepted the New Testament. He fav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (of Llantarnam)
Thomas Morgan of Llantarnam (or Bassaleg, a branch of the Morgan of Tredegar) (1546–1606), of the Welsh Morgan of Monmouthshire, was a confidant and spy for Mary, Queen of Scots, and was involved in the Babington plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I of England. In his youth, Thomas, a staunch Catholic, worked as Secretary of the Archbishop of York until 1568, and then for Lord Shrewsbury who had Mary under his care at this time. Morgan's Catholic leanings soon brought him into the confidence of the Scottish queen and Mary enlisted Morgan as her secretary and go-between for the period extending between 1569 -1572 which coincided with a series of important conspiracies against Elizabeth. Morgan was imprisoned for 3 years in the Tower of London before exiling himself to France. The Parry Plot Thomas Morgan had a secret correspondence with Mary, who was imprisoned in England, and he was plotting the assassination of Queen Elizabeth. In 1584 he may have been involved in the production o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
Thomas Morgan (8 June 1727 – 15 May 1771) was a Welsh politician, of the Morgans of Tredegar. He was the eldest son of Thomas Morgan, Judge Advocate General of the Army, and his wife Jane Colchester. Morgan represented Brecon in the House of Commons from 1754 until 1763. That year, he accepted the Stewardship of the Manor of Old Shoreham to succeed his late cousin, Sir William Morgan in Monmouthshire, which he represented from 1763 until his death in 1771. He was briefly Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire in succession to his father, who died in 1769. Morgan died unmarried, and left his estates (Rhiwperra Castle and Tredegar House Tredegar House (Welsh: ''Tŷ Tredegar'') is a 17th-century Charles II-era mansion on the southwestern edge of Newport, Wales. For over five hundred years it was home to the Morgan family, later Lords Tredegar; one of the most powerful and influe ...) to his younger brother, Charles Morgan. References , - 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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