Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet

The elder son of King Gould of Westminster, who died deputy judge advocate in 1756, he was a scholar of Westminster School in 1739. He was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, 1743, where he proceeded B.A. in 1747 and M.A. in 1750. He was made an honorary D.C.L. in 1773.[1]

Gould was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1750, and in 1771 was appointed judge advocate-general. He came into the favour of George III, was also made chancellor of Salisbury in 1772, and became chamberlain of Brecon, Radnor, and Glamorgan. He sat as Member of Parliament for Brecon 1778–87, and for the Breconshire 1787–1806. He was knighted 5 May 1779,[2] and made a baronet on 30 October 1792,[3] That same year he changed surname to Morgan on inheriting the Rhiwperra and Tredegar estates from the Morgan family. In 1802 he was made a privy counsellor.[4]

He was elected as a Bailiff to the board of the Bedford Level Corporation in 1781, a position he held until his death.[5]

Morgan died at Tredegar 7 December 1806.[1]

In 1751 Gould was one of the authors of the Oxford poem on the occasion of the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales.[1]

Tredegar House

Gould married (February 1758) Jane, eldest daughter of Thomas Morgan.[1] In 1792 he inherited the properties of his wife's brother John Morgan (died 1792).[6] He then took by royal licence the surname and arms of Morgan (20 November 1792).[7] He was succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son Charles.[1] The other children were:[8]

• John, a midshipman killed in action at the Battle of the Saintes, 1782
• Jane (died 1846) who married (1) Captain Henry Ball R.N., who died in 1792, and (2) in 1800 industrialist Samuel Homfray, who leased mineral land at Tredegar, where he established the Tredegar Ironworks.[9][10]
• Elizabeth (died 1836), who married Rowley Lascelles, second illegitimate son of General Francis Lascelles and Ann Catley;[9][11][12] their son Charles Francis Rowley Lascelles fought at the Battle of Waterloo.[13][14]
• Fanny, who married Rev. Augustus Morgan, a cousin.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Gould, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.