| Honorific Prefix: | Lt. Col. Sir |
| Charles Gould Morgan | |
| Honorific Suffix: | 2nd Baronet |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire |
| Term Start: | 1796 |
| Term End: | 1831 |
| Predecessor: | Robert Salusbury |
| Successor: | William Addams Williams |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament for Brecon |
| Term Start2: | 1787 |
| Term End2: | 1796 |
| Predecessor2: | Charles Van |
| Successor2: | Robert Salusbury |
| Birth Date: | 4 February 1760 |
| Nationality: | Welsh |
| Children: | 8, including Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar |
| Father: | Sir Charles Morgan, 1st 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.[1]
The 2nd baronet was the son of Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet (originally Charles Gould), and Jane Morgan (daughter of Thomas Morgan.[2] His sister Jane married the industrialist Samuel Homfray.[3]
He was commissioned ensign and lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards on 21 November 1777, and promoted to lieutenant and captain on 22 March 1781. He was taken prisoner in the capitulation at Yorktown on 19 October. He was promoted captain and lieutenant-colonel on 14 May 1790, retiring from the Army on 4 December 1792.[4]
He became an MP for Brecon (1787–1796) and later for the County of Monmouth (1796–1831), supporting the government of Lord Liverpool. 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.[1]
In 1806, he succeeded to the baronetcy.[5] He also succeeded his father as a Bailiff on the board of the Bedford Level Corporation from 1807 to 1827,[6] and was Recorder for Newport from 1807 to 1835.[1] He was considered a good landlord, and held annual cattle shows on his Tredegar Park estate.[5]
His political opponent, John Frost, referred to him as "a handsome little man ... possessed of great power". By 1820, he had amassed an income of about £40,000 a year from his estates and investments.[1]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816, in recognition of his investment in agricultural improvements.[7]
Morgan (then still Gould) married Mary Margaret (or Mary Magdalen)[5] Stoney, daughter of Capt. George Stoney R.N., in 1791, and they had eight children, four sons and four daughters.[8] [2] He did not remarry after her death in 1807.[9]
Morgan was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar. His other children were:
The daughters were:[15]
Sir Charles died, aged 86, at Tredegar House. The mourners at his funeral included Sir Benjamin Hall, Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte, and Sir George Tyler, 1st Baronet, and he was buried in the family vault at St Basil's Church, Bassaleg.[5]
. Daniel Mackinnon . Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards . II . Richard Bentley . London . 1833 . 492–493 .
. Bernard Burke. Ashworth P. Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. 65th. 1903. Harrison and Sons. London. 1503.