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Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar

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He died suddenly on 27 April 1949 at age 55, without issue, and his viscountcy became extinct, although the title of Baron Tredegar passed to his 75-year-old Uncle
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D.J. Taylor, "Bright Young People", Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, page 232
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of Crichel and Lady Feodorowna Yorke, on 1 April 1928. She died in 1937.
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described the Tredegar family as "the oddest family I have ever met".
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Knight of Honour and Devotion, Sovereign and Military Order of Malta
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painted him. This painting is in the National Trust collection.
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Morgan provided inspiration for the character "Ivor Lombard" in
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2nd Viscount Tredegar, 4th Baron Tredegar, 6th Baronet Morgan
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Robert Graves: from Great War poet to Goodbye to All That
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Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
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The Right Honourable
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Ruperra Castle
Lois Sturt
Princess Olga Dolgorouky
Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
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Welsh peer
poet
author
Baron Tredegar
Baronet Morgan
Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire, Wales
The 13th Duke of Bedford
Eton College
Christ Church, Oxford University
W. C. Bridgeman
Robert Graves
Chamberlain of the Sword and Cape
Benedict XV

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