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Charles Morgan
Born1744
Caernarfonshire
Died21 March 1818
London
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBengal Army
Years of service1763–1799
RankLieutenant-general
CommandsCommander-in-Chief, India

Lieutenant-General Charles Morgan (1744 – 21 March 1818) was an East India Company officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, India.

Military career

Brought up in Caernarfon, the youngest son of Nathaniel Morgan of Warton Wythe Morgan was for many years a senior officer of the Bengal establishment. He officiated as Commander-in-Chief, India from 1797 to 1798 at the time that Zaman Shah threatened to invade the Northern Provinces.

He died at Portland Place in London in 1818. There is a monument dedicated to him in St John's Wood Church, near Lord's Cricket Ground, in London.

Family

He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of Manchester, an apothecary, and his wife Mary Taylor of 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.

References

  1. Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland By John Debrett, Page 1,222
  2. Notes and queries By Oxford Journals
  3. The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and Co.
  4. Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, Europe, Volume 1, By Charles Stewert, Page 252
  5. The Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany, Volume 83, Page 480
  6. A topographical and historical account of the parish of St. Mary-le-Bone, Page 137
  7. The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116
Military offices
Preceded bySir Robert Abercromby Commander-in-Chief, India
1797–1798 		Succeeded bySir Alured Clarke
Commander-in-Chief, India
East India Company
British India
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