Thomas Morgan

Thomas Morgan (1776-1857) was originally from Crinow in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He entered Bristol Academy in 1792. He succeeded Samuel Pearce as minister at Cannon Street in Birmingham in 1802, remaining as pastor until 1811. He married Ann Harwood, daughter of John Harwood (d. 1792). The elder Harwood moved to Birmingham from London in 1778, becoming a successful grocer and chandler in partnership with Thomas King (1755-1831). Both men served many years as deacons in the Baptist church at Cannon Street. Morgan resigned in 1811 due to poor health, but in 1815 became the afternoon lecturer at the Baptist church in Bond Street, Birmingham. He became co-pastor with Edward Edmonds in 1820 and served as pastor from 1822 to 1846. He spent his final years in retirement at Church Hill, Handsworth. See Arthur S. Langley, Birmingham Baptists Past and Present (London: Kingsgate Press, 1939), 34-35, 129-130; . W. Butt-Thompson, “The Morgans of Birmingham.” Baptist Quarterly 1 (1922–1923), 263; John Rippon, ed., Baptist Annual Register, vol. 1 (1790-1793), 495-496; Samuel Couling, “A Biographical Dictionary of Baptist Ministers of Great Britain & Ireland Deceased from 1800 to the close of 1875,” MS., Angus Library, Regent’s Park College, Oxford.