Background
Born in Tonyrefail, Glamorgan, Morgan was bereft of his father in the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918.
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Trefor Richard Morgan
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He was a businessman who set up an insurance company and also supported efforts around Welsh language schooling. By the mid-1940s, he was instead working in farming. Morgan was a conscientious objector during World World War II, on the ground of his Welsh nationalist beliefs.
In 1941 Morgan and another man, Ted Merriman, were imprisoned for a month on the charge of insulting behaviour after they turned their backs during the playing of God Save the King at an event held in Aberystwyth.
Morgan married Gwyneth Evans in 1943. Morgan became active in Plaid Cymru.
He was one of the founders of the Welsh Republican Movement, set up in September 1949, after a difference of opinion led to around fifty Plaid Cymru members walking out of a conference. In 1950 stood as an independent nationalist candidate in Merthyr Tydfil.
In 1955, he again stood for Plaid, this time in Abertillery, and at the 1964 and 1966 United Kingdom general elections, he stood in Brecon and Radnorshire.
Morgan"s election campaigns were unsuccessful, and he decided to focus on promoting independent Welsh businesses. To this end, he set up an insurance company, Cwmni Undeb, based in Aberdare. He pledged that any profits would be invested in Welsh industry or establishing Welsh-language schools.
In 1968, he founded Ysgol Glyndwr near Bridgend as a residential Welsh-language secondary school, but this closed soon after his death, in 1970.
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Politics
He stood for the party in Ogmore at the 1945 United Kingdom general election and in a 1946 by-election.
