Born on 9th November 1883 in Kensington, London, Captain Morgan died of septic pneumonia upon his return to England from the Front on 18th February 1919. He was 35.

Richard was the second son of John Joseph Morgan (1846-1922) of Holland Road, Kensington. His mother was Gertrude Croke Morgan (1853-1886), the daughter of the Reverend George Croke Rowden DCL (Com.1831, Coll.1832). He had an elder brother, Sir Arthur Croke Morgan (1878–1955) and two elder sisters, Sibyl Croke Morgan (1879–1974) and Cecily Croke Morgan (1881–1969). He also had two younger step-brothers, by his father’s second wife, Adelaide (nee Holberton, 185101916), of Edmund Robert Morgan (1888-1979, Coll.1902-1907) and Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan (1891-1969).

He was married to Mabel Constance Bovill (1882-1942) and had two sons.

He entered Saint Ronan's in February 1892. In April 1892 he came 2nd in the 220 Yards race for the under 10s, behind Philip Crick, and won a knife as his prize.

He left Saint Ronan’s in 1893 and went to Horris Hill School in Berkshire. In 1901 he went on to Winchester where he was in Old Tutor’s Hosue VI and, in his last year, he was appointed asa Commoner Prefect and in Lords and the soccer XI. “Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918” recalls that he was in the Winchester XI of 1902, when he scored 147 runs with an average of 10.50.

In June 1904, The Ronian reported “We hear that R C Morgan (S. Ronan’s 1892-3) late of Winchester and now of University Eleven, and has obtained his “Cap” for the “Authentics”.

Richard took his degree at University College, Oxford, gaining a second class honours in History. He played a prominent part in college football and cricket. He then became a Professional Associate of the Surveyors’ Institution and entered into practice as a surveyor and land agent with Mr W H Messenger of Guildford.

On October 13th 1910, Richard married Miss Mabel Constance Bovill, the eldest daughter of John Henry Bovill, of Buckland, Betchworth, Surrey.

When war broke out he obtained a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and while serving in France in 1917 was attached to the Labour Corps, afterwards becoming Adjutant of his unit. The Royal Welsh Fusiliers raised 39 Battalions and saw extensive action on the Western Front.

Captain Morgan was appointed Assistant Labour Commandant, No.1 Sub Area, at the Headquarters of the Third Army, where he continued till the end of the War. His Colonel wrote of him as “a most capable and efficient staff officer, who conducted his duties all through the trying times of 1917 with the utmost skill.”

Captain Morgan died at Buckland on 18th February 1919, of septic pneumonia contracted on his way home from France.

He left two sons when he died: his elder son, Michael Croke Morgan, went on to Winchester as a War Scholar (Coll.1925-1930) and was a temporary assistant master at the College in 1935. Sadly we do not have any information on the second son.

His brother Arthur served in the War and survived. He went on to become a solicitor, subsequently gaining the Presidency of the Law Society and being knighted in the 1945 Birthday Honours List.

Hi step-brother, Llewellyn, also served in the War, with the Royal Navy. He was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross, the Order of Leopold-Chevalier (from Belgium) and was Mentioned in Despatches. He continued his naval career, being appointed Admiral in 1950. In the 1949 Birthday Honours List he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

His other step-brother, Edmund, went into the church. He was also educated at Winchester and later went on to New College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1914, and began his career with curacies at Farnham and Eastleigh. He was then Chaplain to Edward Talbot, Bishop of Winchester, and after that Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Birmingham, for 13 years from 1923. From 1930 to 1936 he was also assistant secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. From 1936 to 1943 he was Rector of Old Alresford and also Archdeacon of Winchester, a post he held until his elevation to the episcopate. He became the seventh Bishop suffragen of Southampton, and afterwards the ninth diocesan Bishop of Truro.