MORETON HALL 



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MORGAN 



Moreton Bay Chestnut. Foliage, flower, 

 and fruit of the Australian evergreen 



beans, which are said to taste, as 

 they look, like chestnuts, hence 

 the name. The heart-wood is dark- 

 coloured, and is valued by cabinet- 

 makers and turners ; but it shrinks 

 considerably in drying. 



Moreton Hall. Mansion in 

 Cheshire, England. A Gothic 

 structure, standing in a well- 

 timbered park, near to Congleton, 

 it was built in 1841-43, from de- 

 signs by E. Blore. The stone used 

 came from the Moreton quarries on 

 Mow Cop, a high hill in the vicinity. 

 The hall was built near to Moreton 

 Old Hall, a black-and-white tim- 

 bered mansion, with numerous 

 gable ends and notable carved 

 woodwork, dating from 1540. 

 Near by are the remains of Bid- 

 dulph Hall, a Tudor mansion, 1558, 

 partly destroyed during the Civil 

 War. There is a Moreton Hall near 

 Moreton Morrell, in Warwickshire. 



Moretto, IL (1498-1554). Italian 

 painter. Born at Rovato, near 

 Brescia, his real name was Aless- 

 andro Bonvicino, and he was a 

 pupil of Ferramola. Influenced by 

 Savoldo, Romanino, Titian, and 

 Raphael, he painted religious 

 pictures and some portraits. In 

 1521 he was engaged on frescoes 

 with Romanino, in S. Giovanni, 

 Brescia. His other works include 

 Christ with His Cross at Bergamo, 

 1518 ; The Ascension, 1526 ; Mar- 

 tinengo Cesaresco, 1526, in the 

 National Gallery, London ; Ma- 

 donna with S. Cecily, 1540 ; Christ 

 in the House of lievi, 1542. He 

 was Moroni's master. He died 

 Dec. 22, 1554, His nickname, II 

 Moretto, means the blackamoor. 



Moreuil. Town of France, in 

 the dept. of Somme. Situated on 

 the right bank of the Avre, 8 m. 

 S.E. of Amiens, it came into pro- 

 minence in the later stages of the 

 Great War, during which it was 

 much damaged. The Germans 

 captured it on April 4, 1918 ; the 

 wood, 1 in. to the E. of it, was cap- 

 tured on March 29, but recovered 

 by Allied cavalry. The town was 

 recaptured by the French, Aug. 8, 



G. Campbell Morgan, 

 British preacher 



Russell 



1918. It has a ruined castle, and an 

 abbey church. See Amiens, Battle 

 of ; Somme, Battles of the. 



Morgan, GEORGE CAMPBELL (b. 

 1863). British preacher. Born at 

 Tetbury, Dec. 9, 1863, he was edu- 

 cated at Chel- 

 tenham, and 

 was for a time 

 schoolmaster 

 in Birming- 

 ham. He be- 

 came a mission 

 preacher, and 

 in 1889 minis- 

 ter of a Con- 

 gregational 

 church at 

 Stone. After 

 holding similar positions in Rugeley 

 and Birmingham, he moved to Lon- 

 don in 1897, becoming minister of 

 a church at Tollington Park, his 

 gifts as a preacher of the evangeli- 

 cal type having made him popular. 

 He was from 1904-17 minister of 

 Westminster chapel, and part of 

 the time principal of Cheshunt 

 College, Cambridge. After 1917 he 

 devoted himself to preaching and 

 lecturing in the U.S.A. and in 

 Great Britain. 



Morgan, SIR HENRY (c. 1635- 

 88). Welsh buccaneer. He be- 

 longed to a Glamorganshire family, 

 and, accord- 

 ing to tradi- 

 tion, was kid- 

 napped as a 

 youth in Bris- 

 tol, and sold in 

 Barbados. 

 Later he got 

 to Jamaica, 

 joined the buc- 

 caneers, and 

 rapidly rose to 

 leadership. He took part in many 

 daring exploits against the Span- 

 iards in Panama, Cuba, and else- 

 where. In 1672 he was sent back 

 to England in disgrace, but won 

 the favour of Charles II, was 

 knighted, and returned to the 

 West Indies as lieutenant-gover- 

 nor of Jamaica, where he died in 

 Aug., 1688. See Buccaneers of 

 America, A. 0. Exquemelin, 1684, 

 repr. 1891 ; History of Buccaneers 

 of America, J. Burney, new ed. 

 1907'; Sir H. Morgan, Buccaneer, 

 J. L. Phillips, 1912. 



Morgan, JOHN PIERPONT (1837- 

 1913). American financier. Born 

 at Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1S37, 

 he was educated at Boston and 

 Gottingen. Inheriting a large 

 fortune from his father, he joined 

 the banking firm of Duncan Sher- 

 man in 1857, and three years later 

 became the American agent of 

 George Peabody & Co., of London. 

 From 1864-71 he was a partner in 

 Dabney, Morgan & Co., and in the 



Sir Henry Morgan, 

 Welsh buccaneer 



J. P. Morgan, 

 American financier 



Itussell 



latter year of 

 Drexel, Mor- 

 gan later 

 known as J. P. 

 Morgan & Co., 

 of New York, 

 which hence- 

 forth was the 

 leading finan- 

 cial house hi 

 America. 



Under him 

 it carried 

 through enormous transactions, and 

 in the U.S.A. financed great railway 

 and shipping schemes. One of the 

 most successful industrial enter- 

 prises created by Morgan was 

 the United States steel corpora- 

 tion, or 'steel trust, with a capital 

 of 220,000,000, and he was at the 

 head of the Atlantic Shipping com- 

 bine. Their firm restored financial 

 stability in the U.S.A. after the 

 panic of 1893. Morgan gave princely 

 donations to Harvard, Yale, and 

 other educational institutions, also 

 to hospitals, churches, etc. In his 

 day he was the world's greatest art 

 collector, and owned priceless pic- 

 tures, china, and books. Keenly 

 interested in yachting and other 

 sports, he frequently visited Eu- 

 rope, and had a house in London. 

 He died in Rome, March 31, 1913. 

 Morgan was succeeded in the 

 supreme direction of his under- 

 takings by his son, John Pierpont 

 Morgan (b. 1867). In addition to 

 controlling the Morgan business 

 interests, he took a leading part in 

 the public life of America. His 

 firm acted as the American agents 

 of the British government during 

 the Great War. 



Morgan, LEWIS HENRY (1818- 

 81). American anthropologist. 

 Born at Aurora, New York, Nov. 

 21, 1818, he 

 graduated at 

 Union College, 

 1840; prac- 

 tised law at 

 Rochester, 

 N.Y., and en- 

 tered the New 

 York senate, 

 1868. His 

 League of the 

 I r o q u o i s, 

 1851, inaugur- 

 ated the systematic study of tribal 

 life. In Ancient Society, 1877, he 

 classified human culture into lower, 

 middle, and upper savagery ; lower, 

 middle and upper barbarism ; and 

 civilization. His Houses and House- 

 life of the American Aborigines, 

 1881, is indispensable for studying 

 the evolution of primitive dwel- 

 lings. He also wrote Systems of 

 Consanguinity and Affinity. He 

 died at Rochester, Dec. 17, 1881. 

 See Family. 



L. H. Morgan, 

 American anthro- 

 pologist 



