Name Evan 2nd Siblings Gwyneth Ericka Morgan Books Fragments | Died April 1949, Dorking Role Poet | |
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Parents Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar | ||
Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (13 July 1893 – 27 April 1949) was a Welsh poet and author. On 3 March 1934, he succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Morgan, 4th Baron Tredegar, and 2nd Viscount Tredegar, after the death of his father.
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Life
He was the son of Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire, Wales, and Lady Katharine Carnegie. The 13th Duke of Bedford described the Tredegar family as "the oddest family I have ever met".
The 2nd Viscount was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford University. A Roman Catholic convert, he was a Chamberlain of the Sword and Cape to Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI. An accomplished occultist, he was hailed by Aleister Crowley as Adept of Adepts.
He fought in the First World War, gaining the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the Welsh Guards. During the Second World War with MI8, his responsibility was to monitor carrier pigeons. He carelessly let slip on occasion departmental secrets to two girl guides and was court martialed but not sent to jail or worse.
In 1929, he stood as the Conservative Party candidate for Limehouse.
Morgan provided inspiration for the characters of Ivor Lombard in Aldous Huxley's 1921 Crome Yellow, and for Eddie Monteith in Ronald Firbank's The Flower Beneath the Foot.
He was decorated with the following awards:
Marriages
Despite his known homosexuality, he married twice.
Death
He died on 27 April 1949 at age 55, without issue. Upon his death, for lack of a male heir, his viscountancy became extinct. His mother died in London in 1949, only a few months later