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Charles Morgan (1744 – 21 March 1818) was an East India Company officer who served as

Commander-in-Chief, India During the period of the Company rule in India and the British Raj, the Commander-in-Chief, India (often "Commander-in-Chief ''in'' or ''of'' India") was the supreme commander of the British Indian Army. The Commander-in-Chief and most of his ...

Military career

Brought up in Caernarfon, the youngest son of Nathaniel Morgan of Warton Wythe Morgan was for many years a senior officer of the Bengal establishment. He officiated as

from 1797 to 1798 at the time that

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threatened to invade the Northern Provinces. He died at Portland Place in London in 1818. There is a monument dedicated to him in St John's Wood Church, near

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, in London.

Family

He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of Manchester, an apothecary, and his wife Mary Taylor of Salford. Of their children, the best known is Elizabeth Georgiana, the youngest daughter, who in 1803 married Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry. They had two children, but in 1811 her husband divorced her on the grounds of her adultery with

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, following a particularly scandalous

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for criminal conversation. She returned to live with her father for some years. After his death, she moved to Italy, where she remarried the Rev John Sandford, the absentee vicar of

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, Somerset in 1819. By him, she had a daughter Anna, Lady Metheun. She died in 1857.The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Charles 1741 births 1818 deaths British East India Company Army generals British Commanders-in-Chief of India