George Hay Morgan

{{short description|British politician}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George Hay Morgan | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} | image = 1906 George Hay Morgan MP.jpg | constituency_MP = Truro | parliament = United Kingdom | majority = 6,097 (23.7%) | term_start = 1906 | term_end = 1918 | predecessor = Edwin Durning-Lawrence | successor = Constituency abolished | birth_date = 1866 | birth_place = Hay-on-Wye, Breconshire, Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|1931|01|24|1866|df=yes}} | party = Liberal Party | education = {{ubl|Pontypool College|University College Cardiff|University of London}} | occupation = {{hlist|Politician|preacher}} }}

'''George Hay Morgan''' (1866 – 24 January 1931) was a British Liberal Party politician.

==Background== He was born in the town of Hay-on-Wye, Breconshire, in 1866. This is where his middle name came from. He was the son of Walter and Ann Morgan, of Wernwilk House, Hay-on-Wye. He studied at Pontypool College, University College Cardiff and the University of London. He married Margaret Jane Lewis of Pontnewynydd, Monmouthshire.<ref>‘MORGAN, George Hay’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U214373, accessed 20 July 2016]</ref>

==Career== He was part of the Baptist Ministry in North London. From 1890 to 1900 he was in charge of the Baptist Church, Woodberry Down, London. He was a Barrister-at-law and was later admitted to the Bar.

==Political career== In Wales, he was an active member of the Liberal Party and also a member of the Welsh Nationalist Cymru Fydd.<ref>General Election 1906, Wales and Monmouthshire: A Souvenir of all the Welsh MPs, 1906, Cardiff.</ref> From 1897 to 1900 he was a member of the Tottenham School Board. At the 1900 general election he stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate for Tottenham.

He was elected Liberal MP for Truro in the Liberal landslide of 1906 replacing the Liberal Unionist MP Edwin Durning-Lawrence.

Although Truro had been a Unionist seat Morgan, as a Baptist preacher, was able to attract the Methodist vote by preaching in the constituency's principal chapels. Morgan also justified his right to represent the Truro seat in Cornwall 'because he was a Cornishman, a Celt, and he ...belonged to the same stock, of the same blood line'.<ref>Tregida, Garry, Representing the Duchy, Francis Acland and Cornish Politics 1910–1922, Cornish Studies, 15.</ref> Morgan was the first student from University College Cardiff to be elected to parliament.

He was a party whip in the House of Commons. He served until the Truro constituency was abolished in 1918. For the 1918 General election he tackled a challenge in a new area when he stood as Liberal candidate for Ipswich, however the Coalition Government endorsed his Unionist opponent and he lost badly.

He was however a supporter of David Lloyd George and the Coalition Government and in December 1920 he contested the 1920 Abertillery by-election as a Coalition Liberal candidate against a Labour candidate who successfully defended the seat.<ref name=craig>British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, F. W. S. Craig.</ref>

He contested the 1922 general election as National Liberal candidate for Penryn and Falmouth, but finished fourth.

Following Liberal reunion, at the 1923 general election he fought Salford West but came third. This was his last parliamentary election campaign.<ref name=craig/>

=== Election results === {{Election box begin | title=General election 1900: Tottenham<ref name=craig/> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Joseph Howard |votes =6,721 |percentage = 62.6 |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 4,009 |percentage = 37.4 |change = }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 2,712 |percentage = 25.2 |change = }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | title=General election 1906: Truro <ref name="ReferenceA">British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig</ref> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 4,187 |percentage = 53.2 |change = +9.1 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Unionist Party |candidate = Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence |votes =3,683 |percentage = 46.8 |change = -9.1 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 504 |percentage = 6.4 |change = 18.2 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 83.7 |change = +9.2 }} {{Election box gain with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |loser = Liberal Unionist Party |swing = +9.1 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=General election January 1910: Truro <ref name="ReferenceA">British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig</ref> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 4,874 |percentage = 53.4 |change = +0.2 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Unionist Party |candidate = Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence |votes =4,261 |percentage = 46.6 |change = -0.2 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 613 |percentage = 6.8 |change = +0.4 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 89.9 |change = +6.2 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = +0.2 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=General election December 1910: Truro <ref name="ReferenceA">British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig</ref><ref>Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916</ref> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 4,573 |percentage = 52.3 |change = -1.1 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Charles Williams |votes =4,176 |percentage = 47.7 |change = +1.1 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 397 |percentage = 4.6 |change = -2.2 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 86.1 |change = -3.8 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = -1.1 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | title=General election 14 December 1918: Ipswich<ref name=craig/> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Unionist Party (UK) |candidate =Francis John Childs Ganzoni |votes =13,553 |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate =Robert Jackson |votes =8,143 |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 3,663 |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box majority| |votes =5,410 |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Unionist Party (UK) |swing = }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=1920 Abertillery by-election<ref name=craig/> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = George Barker |votes = 15,942 |percentage = 66.4 |change = n/a }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Coalition Liberal |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 7,842 |percentage = 33.6 |change = n/a }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 7,650 |percentage = 32.8 |change = n/a }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 70.8 |change = n/a }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Labour Party (UK) |swing = n/a }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=General election 1922: Penryn and Falmouth<ref name=craig/> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Unionist Party (UK) |candidate = Denis Shipwright |votes = 11,566 |percentage = 42.7 |change = −7.9 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Sir Courtenay Mansel |votes = 8,879 |percentage = 32.8 |change = −16.6 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Joseph Harris |votes = 4,482 |percentage = 16.6 |change = n/a }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 2,129 |percentage = 7.9 |change = n/a }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 2,687 |percentage = 9.9 |change = +8.7 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 72.5 |change = +15.9 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Unionist Party (UK) |swing = +4.3 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=General election 1923: Salford West<ref>British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig</ref> }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Alexander Wilkinson Frederick Haycock |votes = 9,868 |percentage = 38.4 |change = +6.1 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Unionist Party (UK) |candidate = Frederick Wolfe Astbury |votes = 9,752 |percentage = 37.9 |change = -7.0 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = George Hay Morgan |votes = 6,097 |percentage = 23.7 |change = +0.9 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 116 |percentage = 0.5 |change = 13.1 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 25,717 |percentage = 76.5 |change = }} {{Election box gain with party link| |winner = Labour Party (UK) |loser = Unionist Party (UK) |swing = +6.5 }} {{Election box end}}

==Notes and references== <references/>

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