Thomas Morgan was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1654.

Morgan was the eldest son of Sir William Morgan

William Morgan (of Tredegar)

Sir William Morgan was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624 and 1625. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....

. He was admitted to Inner Temple

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 in 1650

In 1654, Morgan was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Monmouthshire

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 in the First Protectorate Parliament

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 after two members chose to take up other seats.

Morgan was of Machen. He died at the age of 76, but it is uncertain on which of two separate dates.

Morgan married firstly Rachel Kemys, widow of David Kemys and daughter of Sir Robert Hopton. She was sister to Ralph Lord Hopton

Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton

Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.-Life:Hopton was the son of Robert Hopton of Witham Somerset. He was apparently educated at Lincoln College, Oxford and served in the army of Frederick V, Elector Palatine in the early campaigns of the Thirty...

. He married secondly Elizabeth Windham, daughter of Francis or Thomas Windham of Sandhills Somerset.