Gwenllian Morgan

Miss Gwenllian E. F. Morgan, Coronation Mayor of Brecon (1912) by Isaac Cooke (1846–1922)[1]

Gwenllian Elizabeth Fanny Morgan (9 April 1852 – 7 November 1939) was the first woman in Wales to hold the office of Mayor. She was also an antiquary and published books about her area of study. Morgan served as superintendent of Petitions and Treaties, World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W. C. T. U.); was a member of the Executive Committee of the National British Women's Temperance Association; and was the president of the Brecon Branch. She was a white ribbon worker for eleven years and took a deep interest in the work. Morgan organized the Polyglot Petition work in Great Britain and Ireland and filled the position of British Secretary for the World's W. C. T. U. Apart from this, she was in full sympathy with, and was long connected with active work for women generally, of political and suffrage lines.[2]

Towards the end of her life, Morgan and Louise Imogen Guiney collaborated in writing historical notes about the works of Henry Vaughan. Their work was published posthumously in 1947.

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  2. ^ Chapin 1895, p. 19.