Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 2nd Baronet (4 February 1760 – 5 December 1846), was a Welsh soldier and politician, the MP for Brecon and County of Monmouth.

Life
Born to Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet (originally Charles Gould) and Jane Morgan, he became a Captain in the Coldstream Guards. On retirement from the British Army to enable him to concentrate of the family estate, he became an MP for Brecon (1787-1796) and later for County of Monmouth (1796-1831). He adopted the name of Morgan in 1792, at the same time as his father, and inherited the Tredegar estate of his Uncle John from his mother in 1797.

He succeeded his father as a Bailiff on the board of the Bedford Level Corporation from 1807 to 1827. He was Recorder for Newport from 1807 to 1835.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816.

Family
Morgan (then still Gould) married Mary Margaret Stoney, daughter of Capt. George Stoney R.N., in 1791, and they had eight children, four sons and four daughters. He did not remarry after her death in 1808.

Morgan was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar. The other sons were:


 * George Gould Morgan (1794–1845), army officer and Member of Parliament
 * Charles Augustus Samuel Morgan (1800–1875), cleric, married Frances Lascelles, daughter of Rowley Lascelles and his first cousin
 * Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan (1803–1888), antiquarian.

The daughters were:


 * Maria Margaretta (died 1875), married in 1817 Francis Miles Milman, an army officer and son of Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
 * Charlotte Georgiana (died 1878), married in 1819 George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
 * Angelina Maria Cecilia (died 1844), married in 1825 Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet
 * Selina Anne, died young.