MORGAN, Richard (by 1510-56), of Skenfrith, Mon. and London.

Family and Education

b. by 1510, 2nd s. of Philip ap Morgan Watkin of Llanfair Cilgoed, and bro. of John Philip Morgan. educ. L. Inn, adm. 31 July 1524. m. by Jan. 1540, Mary, da. of Sir Robert Bailey, 3s. 3da. Kntd. 2 Oct. 1553.Date of birth estimated from education. Bradney, Mon. i(1), 123; LP Hen. VIII, xv; PCC 8 Ketchyn; DNB.

Offices Held

Auditor, L. Inn 1534 – 37, 1538 – 39, 1541 – 42, butler 1538 – 39, keeper, Black Bk. 1544 – 45, Autumn reader 1542, 1546, treasurer 1545–6.

Custos rot. Mon. 1543; recorder, Gloucester by Jan. 1547–53; serjeant-at-law 3 Feb. 1547-Aug. 1553 (simultaneously retained by duchy of Lancaster); j.p. Glos., Mon. 1547 – 55; commr. of Admiralty in Nov. 1547, relief, Glos., Mon. 1550; PC 16 Aug. 1553; c.j.c.p. 23 Aug. 1553 – 8 Oct. 1555; receiver of petitions in the Lords, Parlt. of Oct. 1553.Somerville, Duchy, i. 452; Rep. R. Comm. of 1552 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture iii), 105; T. D. Fosbroke, Gloucester, 211; Williams, Glos. MPs, 188; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 75, 83, 86; 1553, p. 354; LP Hen. VIII, xviii; APC, iv. 320, 332; Foss, Judges, v. 387; Wriothesley’s Chron. ii (Cam. Soc. n.s. xx), 101; LJ, i. 447; C193/12/1; Gloucester Guildhall 1394, f. 48v; HCA 14/2.

Parlimentarian

MORGAN, Richard (by 1510-56), of Skenfrith, Mon. and London.

Main residences: Skenfrith, Mon.; London.

Author

P.S.E.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

MORGAN, Richard (by 1510-56)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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