Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, CBE,

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, VD (10 April 1867 – 3 May 1934), was a Welsh peer. Morgan was born at

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near

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, and educated at

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.Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He was the eldest son of the Honourable

Frederick Courtenay Morgan Colonel Frederick Courtenay Morgan (24 May 1834 – 8 January 1909) was a Welsh Army officer and Conservative politician. Biography Morgan was the son of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, 3rd Bt., by his wife Rosamund Mundy. Morgan was commi ...

, of Ruperra Castle, third son of

Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (10 April 1792 – 16 April 1875), was a Welsh Whig peer and a member of the House of Lords. He was the son of Lt.-Col. Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Mary Marga ...

. His mother was Charlotte Anne, daughter of Charles Alexander Williamson, of

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. He succeeded his uncle

Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (28 April 1831 – 11 March 1913) was a Welsh officer, a General in the British Army, and a peer in the House of Lords. Tredegar was born on 28 April 1831 in Ruperra Castle, Glamorganshire, th ...

, as third Baron Tredegar in 1913.thepeerage.com Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
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in the

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on 30 December 1891, and was later promoted an honorary

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. In early 1900 he was Aide-de-camp to Sir Thomas Fraser, Commandant

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at Chatham and Commanding the Thames District. Tredegar was a minor cricketer who played at county level for

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between 1896 and 1898 while playing at club level for Ludlow.''Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998'', pages 21, 48. In the

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he unsuccessfully stood as

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candidate for South Monmouthshire, losing the seat to the Liberals in a national landslide for that party. One of Lord Tredegar's first acts after his succession was to purchase the steam yacht ''

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,'' which almost immediately was requisitioned by the

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for use as a

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. He left his home and went back to serve in the

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, taking command of his yacht for the first part of the war. After the end of hostilities, he embarked on a world cruise, eventually going around the world twice during which he visited every colony in the British Empire and every state in the Commonwealth of Australia. In 1926 the viscountcy was revived when he was created Viscount Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth. He is not recorded as having spoken in the

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. In 1933 he was appointed

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, a post he held until his death the following year. Lord Tredegar married Lady Katharine Agnes Blanche, daughter of

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, in 1890. He died in May 1934, aged 67, at the Ritz Hotel in

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, London after his return from a health trip to Australia. He was succeeded in the viscountcy and ownership of

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by his eccentric and bohemian son,

Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar Evan Frederick Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, , FAGS, FIL (13 July 1893 – 27 April 1949) was a Welsh poet and author. On 3 March 1934, he succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Morgan, 4th Baron Tredegar, and 2nd Viscount Tredegar, after the ...

. Katharine, Viscountess Tredegar died in London in 1949, only a few months after her son Evan. Hon. Gwyneth Ericka Morgan, the only daughter of Courtenay and Katharine died in mysterious circumstances following her disappearance in 1924.

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