Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan, 1st Baronet (3 May 1831 – 12 November 1916), was a British businessman and the 578th

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. He was the sixth son of Thomas Morgan of

Pipton Pipton is a small settlement and former civil parish (or community (Wales), community) in Powys, Wales on the Afon Llynfi (Wye), Afon Llynfi near its confluence with the River Wye. It was formerly in the county of Brecknockshire and is now part ...

, near Glasbury, Breconshire and his wife Elizabeth Vaughan. He served as Sheriff of London for 1900-01 and as

for 1905–05. In 1906 he was created a Baronet, of Whitehall Court in the City of Westminster. The six brothers had established in 1856 the Patent Plumbago Crucible Company, acquiring a factory site in

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;Richard Bennett, ''Battersea Works, 1856-1956'', 1956, London this company has become

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. His youngest brother

Octavius Vaughan Morgan Octavius Vaughan Morgan (1837 – 26 February 1896) was a Welsh-born Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. The eighth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton ...

, FSA (1837–96) was a

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MP for

from 1885 until 1892.

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