John Morgan (18 February 1742 – 27 June 1792) was a

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politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1769 to 1792. Tredegar House 1 (16984431737)

Morgan was the youngest son of Sir Thomas Morgan and his wife, Jane. He entered the House of Commons in 1769 as Member of Parliament for Brecon, succeeding his brother Sir Charles Morgan. In 1771, he accepted the Stewardship of the Manor of East Hendred in order to enter the by-election at

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, replacing his late brother Sir Thomas Morgan. Unusually, given the immense Morgan influence in

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and

, the election was contested, albeit unsuccessfully, by Valentine Morris. His elder brothers having died without issue, John Morgan inherited the Tredegar Estate in 1787. Finding himself in urgent need of an heir, he married Louisa Pym Burt, a woman who was more than twenty-five years his junior. Unfortunately, the marriage did not result in any children, and when John Morgan died in 1792, the Tredegar Estate passed by arrangement to his sister Jane and her husband

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, on condition they changed their name to Morgan.‘Will of John Morgan (1742-92) of Tredegar’, The National Archives, PROB 11; Piece: 1224

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1742 births 1792 deaths British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies {{Wales-GreatBritain-MP-stub