In Search of Jenkin Morgan
Thu 01 Apr
|Zoom event
Q&A with Ray Stroud on Jenkin Morgan @ 7pm on 01 April 2021
Time & Location
01 Apr 2021, 19:00
Zoom event
About the Event
The next Newport Chartist Convention video talk is by Ray Stroud. Ray has researched the little known Newport Chartist activist Jenkin Morgan. You are invited to watch Ray's discussion here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Sy73D07cI
Then join us on April 1st at 7pm for the Q&A.
In Search of Jenkin Morgan: an introduction
Jenkin Morgan has become part of the invisible landscape of Welsh Chartism. This Pill milkman, tallow chandler and soap boiler was initially sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered alongside John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones at Monmouth in 1840, and yet very few people today even know his name. As the three ‘Welsh Martyrs’ were shipped off to Tasmania on board the Mandarin, Morgan’s sentence was commuted to five years imprisonment in the Millbank Penitentiary. He emerged from his incarceration in 1844 a broken and impoverished man.
Jenkin Morgan's role in the Newport Rising of 1839 is a…