George Cadogan Morgan (1754 to 1798) was a Welsh dissenting minister and scientist, born at Bridgend in Glamorgan, a nephew of the philosopher Richard Price and a younger brother of the actuary William Morgan. He served as a Unitarian minister at Norwich and Yarmouth, and from 1787 taught at the New College in Hackney. In 1789 he was in Paris at the storming of the Bastille and is thought to have been the first to send the news to England. He won a name as a scientific writer, best known for his Lectures on Electricity, in which he foreshadowed several later discoveries. In chemistry he defended the views of Stahl against those of Lavoisier. In 1785 he sent the Royal Society a paper on the light given off by burning bodies. He died in 1798 of a fever caught during a chemical experiment.
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was a Welsh dissenting minister and scientist
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He was born in 1754 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire
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Morgan gained a high reputation as a scientific writer, his best-known work being his Lectures on Electricity
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He was born in 1754 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, the second son of William Morgan
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was a Welsh dissenting minister and scientist
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In 1785, he communicated to the Royal Society a paper containing 'Observations and Experiments on the Light of Bodies in a state of Combustion'.
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