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Lives and Survivorships . He was the son of William Morgan , of Bridgend , iii the county of Glamorgan , and of Sarah , daughter of Rice Price , of Tyriton , in the same county , the sister of the celebrated Dr . Price . By his father , who was of the medical profession , and in very
considerable ™ prac tTce ~ in ~ tlre"coatity 7 ~ h e " was descended from an ancient family , who for many generations possessed an estate at Ystrad in the abovementioned county . He was born at Bridgend , on the 6 th June , 1750 , and commenced his education in his native town , whence after a short time he was removed to
a school in the neighbouring town of Coity , and subsequently to the Free School at Gowbridge , * where , under the tuition of © iv---williamsV he made a rapid progress in his classical studies , and became in the course of a short time the head boy of the school . In 17— he quitted Cowbridge , and after a short time spent with Jns _
jamily , at Bridgend ,. and in acquiring , under his father , a knowledge of dispejising medicines , he repaired to London , with a view of obtaining a situation under some general practitioner ; in this pursuit , however , he
met with little success , and being recalled to the country by the death of his sister and father , he remained there for a short time , and after the settlement of his father ' s affairs , again returned to ^^ n ^ o ^ wliergj ^ y the kind Assistance of his maternal
uncle , Dr . Price , he was now enabled to enter as a student at Guy ' s Hospital . There he continued for three or four years , pursuing his medical studies with great zeal , industry , and success . Thfs is sufficiently evinced by th e nn anuscript copie s still ex tanfc ° f all the lectures which he then attended .
* Endowed by Sir JLhewelin Jenkins in he reign of Charles the Second . This school unjoys considerable advantages in Jesus Colj cg , Oxford , where there are two fellowships , lwo scholarships , and an exhibition exclusively confined to students educated at this school . —MaMin ' s South Wales , p . 115 .
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In 1770 , Dr . Price had published the first edition of his work on 'Reversionary Payments ; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows , and for Persons in Old Age ; and on the Method of calculating' the values of Assurances on Lives . ' This caused Dr . P . to be consulted by
many societies , instituted for these purposes , as well as in cases for the valuation of individual reversionary interests ; and he suggested to his nephew that it might possibly be of advantage to him to turn his attention to these subjects . He accordingly commenced the study of mathematics about this time , ( 1772 , ) and made an extraordinary and rapid progress in them .
In February , 1774 , he was , at the recommendation of Dr . Price , appointed to the office of Assistant Actuary tq > the Equitable Societythe President and Directors had frequently consulted Dr . Price on the ; . management of ; their affairs ** - *
and succeeded to the more important office of Actuary in February , 1775 . In that office he had an opportunity of following the peculiar bent of his genius , and he pursued his mathematical studies with great ardour and an enthusiastic love of science .
It was his constant habit at this time , and for many years afterwards , to rise every morning between four arid five o ' clock , winter and summer , to pursue his studies .- To these he again recurred in the evening ; but
finding , when he encountered difficulties in his evening studies , that his ardour to surmount them deprived him of rest , he abandoned the study of mathematics iii the evening , and devoted those hours either to the
^ i 3 y ~ 6 r ~ e ^^ iFrmental philosophy , ( chemistry or electricity , hut more particularly the latter , ) or in reading and abridging ; the works of the Greek historians . The course of his mathematical studies cannot exactly be traced , but there is every reason to believe that between the years 1772 and 1776 he had read the Elements
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CORRESPONMNCE . ~ 253
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1833, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2619/page/29/
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