Sir Walter Morgan, 1st Baronet
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Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan, 1st Baronet (3 May 1831 – 12 November 1916), was a British businessman and the 578th
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. Vaughan-Morgan was the sixth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton, near Glasbury, Breconshire and his wife Elizabeth Vaughan. He served as
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for 1900-01 and as
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for 1905–05. In 1906 he was created a Baronet, of Whitehall Court in the City of Westminster. He was a treasurer of
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. Together with his six brothers, he had established in 1856 the Patent Plumbago Crucible Company, acquiring a factory site in Battersea;Richard Bennett, ''Battersea Works, 1856-1956'', 1956, London this company has become Morgan Advanced Materials. His youngest brother Octavius Vaughan Morgan, FSA (1837–96) was a Liberal MP for Battersea from 1885 until 1892.


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