John Lloyd Morgan

John Lloyd Morgan

John Lloyd Morgan MP, circa 1906

John Lloyd Morgan (13 Feb. 1861 – 17 May 1944) was Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for West Carmarthenshire from 1889 to 1910.

Background

Son of Rev. William Morgan, Prof. of Theology, Presbyterian College, Carmarthen. Educated at Tettenhall College, Staffordshire; Owens College, Manchester; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1883). He was raised as an English speaking Congregationalist who spoke little Welsh.

Legal Career

Qualified as a Barrister, Inner Temple, 1884. Appointed a Kings Council in 1906. Recorder of Swansea, 1908–10. County Court Judge Carmarthen, from 1910 to 1926, when he retired.

Political Career

First elected as Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for West Carmarthenshire at a by-election in 1889, holding the seat against a Unionist opponent. He was re-elected unopposed in 1892. In 1895 he again defeated a Unionist challenger, thereafter he was returned unopposed in 1900 and 1906. He defeated a Unionist challenger in January 1910. He retired from parliament before the December 1910 General Election to take up an appointment as a Judge. Following his appointment he was succeeded as MP by John Hinds. Hinds remained the member for the constituency until it's abolition in 1918.

Morgan was frequently criticised for his apparent lack of interest in his constituency, but his local connections were deemed to be so strong as to make his position secure.^[1]

References

Bibliography

• Who's Who

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Lloyd Morgan