Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 1st Baronet (25 April 1726 – 7 December 1806) was an English Judge Advocate-General. From his birth until 1792 he was known as Charles Gould.

Life

The elder son of King Gould of Westminster, who died deputy judge advocate in 1756, he was a scholar of

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in 1739. He was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, 1743, where he proceeded B.A. in 1747 and M.A. in 1750. He was made an honorary D.C.L. in 1773. Gould was called to the bar at the

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in 1750, and in 1771 was appointed judge advocate-general. He came into the favour of George III, was also made chancellor of Salisbury in 1772, and became chamberlain of Brecon, Radnor, and Glamorgan. He sat as Member of Parliament for 1778–87, and for the 1787–1806. He was knighted 5 May 1779, and made a baronet on 30 October 1792, That same year he changed surname to Morgan on inheriting the Rhiwperra and

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estates from the Morgan family. In 1802 he was made a

privy counsellor The Privy Council (PC), officially His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its membership mainly comprises senior politicians who are current or former members of ei ...

. He was elected as a Bailiff to the board of the

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in 1781, a position he held until his death. Morgan died at Tredegar 7 December 1806.

Works

In 1751 Gould was one of the authors of the Oxford poem on the occasion of the death of

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Family

In 1758 Gould married Jane, eldest daughter of Thomas Morgan. On the death of his wife's brother John Morgan without issue in 1792, he inherited the Tredegar Estate.. He then took by royal licence the surname and arms of Morgan (20 November 1792). He was succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son Charles. The other children were: *John, a midshipman killed in action at the

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, 1782. *Jane (died 1846) who married (1) Captain Henry Ball R.N.(died 1792) and (2) industrialist

Samuel Homfray Samuel Homfray (1762 – 22 May 1822) was an English industrialist during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, associated with the early iron industry in South Wales. Samuel was the son of a successful ironmaster, Francis Homfray, and the ...

. Homfray and his associates leased mineral land from Sir Charles in the Sirhowy Valley twenty-two miles north of Newport, where they established the Tredegar Ironworks and the associated town of

. *Elizabeth (died 1836), who married Rowley Lascelles, second illegitimate son of General Francis Lascelles and Ann Catley; their son Charles Francis Rowley Lascelles fought at the

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. *Thomas, who died young. Clark, George Thomas, ''Limbus Patrum Morganiæ et Glamorganiæ: Being the Genealogies of the Older Families of the Lordships of Morgan and Glamorgan'' (London: Wyman & Sons, 1886.

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