Syd Morgan is a

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. Morgan studied at the

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and became active in

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. He was a founder member of the National Left group within the party in 1980. By 1984, Morgan was a

member of the Rhymney Valley District Council, and was also the party's Senior Vice-Chairman, while working as a housing officer in

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. At the 1984 European election, Morgan stood in South Wales East, taking fourth place with 8.7% of the votes cast. Later in the year, he was elected as party chairman, serving until 1990 when he became its treasurer. Morgan stood for the UK Parliament at the 1989 Pontypridd by-election, in which he took second place with more than a quarter of the vote. In 1992, Morgan married Jill Evans, a prominent Plaid politician. Following the redistricting of local government in Wales, he became a councillor in

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for many years, losing his seat in 2004 and last standing in 2008. He works as a lecturer at

Swansea University Swansea University () is a public university, public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it chang ...

, was until 2011 a member of the bureau of the Centre Maurits Coppieters, and was a founder of the Welsh Nationalism Foundation.Martin Shipton,
Labour queries public funding for Plaid-linked research foundation
, '' Western Mail'', 12 December 2012

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