Peter John Morgan (born 1 January 1959) is a former Welsh international

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player. He played on the wing. In 1980 he toured

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with the British Lions and at the time played club rugby for

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Playing career

Morgan played rugby from a young age including selection for the Welsh Youth team. After a spell playing with

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he switched to first class team Llanelli. In 1979 Morgan was a member of the Llanelli sevens team which won the

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and he was awarded the Everson Award as the player of the tournament. It was as a Llanelli player he was first selected for the Wales national team in the encounter with Scotland during the

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. In the same year he was chosen to represent the British Lions on their 1980 tour of South Africa. Although he was not selected for any of the Test matches, he played in seven regional encounters, scoring a

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in a narrow win over

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. Morgan played in four matches for Wales, including the 1980 game against the

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at Cardiff.

Later life

Peter Morgan later became chairman of

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. He suffered an incapacitating stroke in August, 2012. Western Telegraph, 8 August 2012

Notes

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