John Richard Morgan (1854 – 11 April 1937) was a Welsh international

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who earned ten caps between 1877 and 1883. Born at

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, near Swansea, Glamorgan, where his father, the Rev. Morgan Rice Morgan, was Vicar.Obituary for J.R. Morgan, Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 17 April 1937 He was educated at Oundle School and

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, and from 1874 to 1878 studied at

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. where he was awarded in 1877 a Blue for Association Football. He was Assistant Master at Park House School, Reading;

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, 1879–1883; and Somersetshire College, Bath. In 1885 he founded with his wife, Katherine Emily Bennett (1887-1942), Connaught House Preparatory School in Weymouth, Dorset. He retired in 1920 and died on 11 April 1937 at 13, Somerset Place, Bath, and was buried at Lansdown Cemetery, Bath, Somerset.

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1854 births 1937 deaths Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge People educated at Oundle School Welsh footballers Wales international footballers Cambridge University A.F.C. players Notts County F.C. players Association football defenders {{Wales-footy-defender-stub