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	==Family==		==Family==
	He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of [[Manchester]], an [[apothecary]], and his wife Mary Taylor of [[Salford, Greater Manchester\|Salford]]. Of their children the best known is Elizabeth Georgiana, the youngest daughter, who in 1803 married [[Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry]]. They had two children, but in 1811 her husband divorced her on the grounds of her [[adultery]] with [[Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet]], following a particularly scandalous [[lawsuit]] for [[criminal conversation]]. She returned to live with her father for some years. After his death she moved to Italy, where she remarried the Rev John Sandford, the absentee vicar of [[Nynehead]], [[Somerset]] in 1819. By him she had a daughter Anna, Lady Metheun. She died in 1857.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwMsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=14#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116]</ref>		He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of [[Manchester]], an [[apothecary]], and his wife Mary Taylor of [[Salford, Greater Manchester\|Salford]]. Of their children, the best known is Elizabeth Georgiana, the youngest daughter, who in 1803 married [[Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry]]. They had two children, but in 1811 her husband divorced her on the grounds of her [[adultery]] with [[Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet]], following a particularly scandalous [[lawsuit]] for [[criminal conversation]]. She returned to live with her father for some years. After his death, she moved to Italy, where she remarried the Rev John Sandford, the absentee vicar of [[Nynehead]], [[Somerset]] in 1819. By him, she had a daughter Anna, Lady Metheun. She died in 1857.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwMsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=14#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116]</ref>

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	\| rank =[[Lieutenant ~~General~~ (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant ~~General~~]]		\| rank =[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant general]]
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	[[Lieutenant ~~General~~ (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant General]] '''Charles Morgan''' (1741 – 21 March 1818) was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].		[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant General]] '''Charles Morgan''' (1741 – 21 March 1818) was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].

	==Military career==		==Military career==
	Brought up in [[Caernarfon]], the youngest son of Nathaniel Morgan of Warton Wythe<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-X4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1222&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=36#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland By John Debrett, Page 1,222]</ref> Morgan was for many years a senior officer of the [[Bengal]] establishment.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=isWZhm_BexcC&q=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=11 Notes and queries By Oxford Journals]</ref> He officiated as [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] from 1797 to 1798<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P_cNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR20&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=24#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and Co.]</ref> at the time that [[Zaman Shah Durrani\|Zaman Shah]] threatened to invade the Northern Provinces.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kV8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA251&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=25#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, Europe, Volume 1, By Charles Stewert, Page 252]</ref>		Brought up in [[Caernarfon]], the youngest son of Nathaniel Morgan of Warton Wythe<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-X4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1222&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=36#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland By John Debrett, Page 1,222]</ref> Morgan was for many years a senior officer of the [[Bengal]] establishment.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=isWZhm_BexcC&q=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=11 Notes and queries By Oxford Journals]</ref> He officiated as [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] from 1797 to 1798<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P_cNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR20&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=24#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and Co.]</ref> at the time that [[Zaman Shah Durrani\|Zaman Shah]] threatened to invade the Northern Provinces.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kV8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA251&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=25#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, Europe, Volume 1, By Charles Stewert, Page 252]</ref>

	He died at Portland Place in [[London]] in 1818.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UlwAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&cd=7#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany, Volume 83, Page 480]</ref> There is a monument dedicated to him in [[St John's Wood Church]], near [[Lord's Cricket Ground]], in [[London]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Xw4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA137&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false A topographical and historical account of the parish of St. Mary-le-Bone, Page 137]</ref>		He died at Portland Place in [[London]] in 1818.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UlwAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&cd=7#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany, Volume 83, Page 480]</ref> There is a monument dedicated to him in [[St John's Wood Church]], near [[Lord's Cricket Ground]], in [[London]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Xw4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA137&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false A topographical and historical account of the parish of St. Mary-le-Bone, Page 137]</ref>

	==Family==		==Family==
	He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of [[Manchester]], an [[apothecary]], and his wife Mary Taylor of [[Salford, Greater Manchester\|Salford]]. Of their children the best known is Elizabeth Georgiana, the youngest daughter, who in 1803 married [[Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry]]. They had two children, but in 1811 her husband divorced her on the grounds of her [[adultery]] with [[Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet]], following a particularly scandalous [[lawsuit]] for [[criminal conversation]]. She returned to live with her father for some years. After his death she moved to Italy, where she remarried the Rev John Sandford, the absentee vicar of [[Nynehead]], [[Somerset]] in 1819. By him she had a daughter Anna, Lady Metheun. She died in 1857.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwMsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=14#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116]</ref>		He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of [[Manchester]], an [[apothecary]], and his wife Mary Taylor of [[Salford, Greater Manchester\|Salford]]. Of their children the best known is Elizabeth Georgiana, the youngest daughter, who in 1803 married [[Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry]]. They had two children, but in 1811 her husband divorced her on the grounds of her [[adultery]] with [[Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet]], following a particularly scandalous [[lawsuit]] for [[criminal conversation]]. She returned to live with her father for some years. After his death she moved to Italy, where she remarried the Rev John Sandford, the absentee vicar of [[Nynehead]], [[Somerset]] in 1819. By him she had a daughter Anna, Lady Metheun. She died in 1857.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwMsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=14#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116]</ref>

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[[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] '''Charles Morgan''' (1741 – 21 March 1818) was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].

==Military career==
Brought up in [[Caernarfon]], the youngest son of Nathaniel Morgan of Warton Wythe<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-X4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1222&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=36#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland By John Debrett, Page 1,222]</ref> Morgan was for many years a senior officer of the [[Bengal]] establishment.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=isWZhm_BexcC&q=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=11 Notes and queries By Oxford Journals]</ref> He officiated as [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] from 1797 to 1798<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P_cNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR20&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=24#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and Co.]</ref> at the time that [[Zaman Shah Durrani|Zaman Shah]] threatened to invade the Northern Provinces.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kV8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA251&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=25#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, Europe, Volume 1, By Charles Stewert, Page 252]</ref>

He died at Portland Place in [[London]] in 1818.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UlwAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&cd=7#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany, Volume 83, Page 480]</ref> There is a monument dedicated to him in [[St John's Wood Church]], near [[Lord's Cricket Ground]], in [[London]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Xw4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA137&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false A topographical and historical account of the parish of St. Mary-le-Bone, Page 137]</ref>

==Family==
He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of [[Manchester]], an [[apothecary]], and his wife Mary Taylor of [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]]. Of their children the best known is Elizabeth Georgiana, the youngest daughter, who in 1803 married [[Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry]]. They had two children, but in 1811 her husband divorced her on the grounds of her [[adultery]] with [[Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet]], following a particularly scandalous [[lawsuit]] for [[criminal conversation]]. She returned to live with her father for some years. After his death she moved to Italy, where she remarried the Rev John Sandford, the absentee vicar of [[Nynehead]], [[Somerset]] in 1819. By him she had a daughter Anna, Lady Metheun. She died in 1857.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwMsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&lr=&cd=14#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Charles%20Morgan%22&f=false The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116]</ref>

==References==
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