1215 John Morgan

Constituency : West  Carmarthenshire  1889-1910

John  replaced  the  deceased  Walter  Powell  at  West  Carmarthenshire. He  had  an  easy  victory  over  the  Conservative.

John  was  the  son  of  a  Presbyterian  theologist. He  was  educated  at  Tettenhall  College  and Cambridge. He  himself  was  a  Congregationalist. He  became  a  barrister.

John  was  unopposed  in  1892 and  comfortably  held  the  seat  against  a  Liberal  Unionist challenge  in  1895. Thereafter  he  was  unopposed  ( including  a  by-election  in  1908  when  he
became  Recorder  of  Swansea ) until  January  1910  when  he  crushed  a  Conservative  challenge.

John  was  subject  to  some  criticism  from  local  Liberal  papers  for  an  apparent  lack  of  zeal - he  never  learned  Welsh - but  his  position  remained  secure.

John  retired  at  the  December  1910  election  in  order  to  become  a  County  Court  judge. He  retired  from  that  role  in  1926.

He  died  in  1944  aged  83.