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{{Infobox military person<br />
| name = Charles Morgan<br />
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| birth_date = 1744<br />
| death_date = 21 March 1818<br />
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| birth_place = [[Caernarfonshire]]<br />
| death_place = [[London]]<br />
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| allegiance = [[United Kingdom]]<br />
| branch = [[Bengal Army]]<br />
| service_years = 1763–1799<br />
| rank = [[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-general]]<br />
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| commands = [[Commander-in-Chief, India]]<br />
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[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''Charles Morgan''' (1744 – 21 March 1818) was an [[East India Company]] officer who served as [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Brought up in [[Caernarfon]], the youngest son of Nathaniel Morgan of Warton Wythe<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-X4DAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&pg=PA1222 Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland By John Debrett, Page 1,222]</ref> Morgan was for many years a senior officer of the [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]] establishment.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=isWZhm_BexcC&q=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22 Notes and queries By Oxford Journals]</ref> He officiated as [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] from 1797 to 1798<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P_cNAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&pg=RA1-PR20 The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and Co.]</ref> at the time that [[Zaman Shah Durrani|Zaman Shah]] threatened to invade the Northern Provinces.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kV8-AAAAcAAJ&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&pg=PA251 Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, Europe, Volume 1, By Charles Stewert, Page 252]</ref><br />
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He died at Portland Place in [[London]] in 1818.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UlwAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&pg=PA480 The Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany, Volume 83, Page 480]</ref> There is a monument dedicated to him in [[St John's Wood Church]], near [[Lord's Cricket Ground]], in [[London]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Xw4NAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&pg=PA137 A topographical and historical account of the parish of St. Mary-le-Bone, Page 137]</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
He married Hannah Wagstaff, eldest daughter of William Wagstaff of [[Manchester]], an [[apothecary]], and his wife Mary Taylor of [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]]. Of their children, the best known is Elizabeth Georgiana, the youngest daughter, who in 1803 married [[Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry]]. They had two children, but in 1811 her husband divorced her on the grounds of her [[adultery]] with [[Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet]], following a particularly scandalous [[lawsuit]] for [[criminal conversation]]. She returned to live with her father for some years. After his death, she moved to Italy, where she remarried the Rev John Sandford, the absentee vicar of [[Nynehead]], [[Somerset]] in 1819. By him, she had a daughter Anna, Lady Metheun. She died in 1857.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwMsAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22General+Charles+Morgan%22&pg=PA116 The admission register of the Manchester school, Volume 69, Page 116]</ref><br />
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