Family and Education
b. 1621, s. of Anthony Morgan DD, rector of Cottesbrooke, Northants. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 4 Nov. 1636, demy 1640, BA 6 July 1641.Al. Ox. M.Temple, adm. 29 Jan. 1658, called 2 Nov. 1660.M. Temple Admiss. m. Elizabeth, bef. 1645. kntd (1) 26 July 1658, (2) 19 Nov. 1660.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223-4, 232. d. 1668.PROB11/328/357.
Offices Held

Military: capt. (roy.) Wales bef. Mar. 1645. by July 1646 – June 1649CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 356. Capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Henry Ireton* (later Charles Fleetwood*); maj. June 1649-July 1659.SP28/61, ff. 416, 430; Wanklyn, New Model Army, i. 74–5; ii. 191, 220, 235, 244.

Irish: commr. high ct. of justice, Dublin 30 Dec. 1652.TCD, MS 844, f. 136. Member, cttee. on tillage, 4 Jan. 1653.Eg. 1762, f. 58v. Dep. sheriff, co. Kildare 26 Jan. 1653.Eg. 1762, f. 60. Member, cttee. on preaching gospel, Jan. 1653.St. J.D. Seymour, Puritans in Ire. (Oxford, 1921), 61. Commr. settling Ulster, Apr.-June 1653.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 339–40, 346. J.p. co. Dublin 15 Sept. 1653.TCD, MS 844, f. 139v. Member, cttee. for appeals against transplantation, cos. Cork, Kerry and Limerick 19 May 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 428. Commr. transplantation, 19 Mar. 1655–?59.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 490, 499. Member, cttee. for Down Survey, 10 Mar. 1656–59.W. Petty, History of the Down Survey, ed. Larcom (Dublin, 1851), 107–9. Trustee, army arrears, 14 May 1656.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 600. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Auditor of land settlement, Dec. 1658–1659.Petty, Down Survey, 267, 273–4. MP, Taghmon, co. Wexford 1661–6.CJI i. 595.

Academic: DMed. 8 May 1647. 1663 – d.Al. Ox. FRS,; legal adviser, c. 1663; cllr. 1663, 1666–7.The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660–1700, ed. M. Hunter (Brit. Soc. for Hist. Science, monograph 4: 2nd edn., Oxford, 1994), 136–7.

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Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MORGAN, Anthony (1621-68), of Abbey Street, Dublin.

Will
3 Sept. 1668, pr. 24 Nov. 1668.PROB11/328/357.
Estates
lands in south Wales, bef. 1645 (sequestration removed 3 Nov. 1646);CJ iv. 713b. granted ‘island’ of Allen, co. Kildare, mid-1650s (held until 1660);CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 46. granted 350 acres near Drogheda, co. Louth, bef. 1658.Henry Cromwell Corresp. 408.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
‘Sir Arthur Morgan’ [sic] listed as resident in Abbey Street, Dublin, 1659.Irish Census, 1659, 373.
Religion
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