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Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949)

Evan Frederic Morgan was born 13 July, 1893, only son to Courtenay Morgan (the future Lord Tredegar of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire) and the Lady Katherine Carnegie.

A poet and author of volumes such as "Fragments", "At Dawn", "The Eel" and "The City of Canals."

Evan Morgan was a Chamberlain to Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI yet, as an accompished occultist, was hailed by Aleister Crowley as "Adept of Adepts".

Morgan succeeded to the titles of 4th Baron, 2nd Viscount Tredegar in May 1934 on the death of his father.

A noted eccentric, he kept at his seat of Tredegar Park near Newport, South Wales, a menagerie of animals including a boxing kangaroo, honey bear, baboon and macaw. His week-end house parties which attracted such figures as Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, Augustus John and Aleister Crowley, gained local notoriety, as did the host's extravagant lifestyle.

Evan came from what the Duke of Bedford described as "The oddest family I have ever met.": his mother is rumoured to have built bird's nests big enough to sit in; in 1925 his sister, Gwyneth Erica Morgan, was found dead at the age of 29 in the River Thames, while his father owned one of the largest yachts in the world.

Married twice: (i) the Hon. Lois Sturt in 1928 (she died in Budapest in 1937) (ii) Princess Olga Dolgorouky (marriage annulled in 1943)

Evan, Viscount Tredegar died in April 1949 at the age of 55.

Notes

Information taken from:

Tredegar House guide book (1985) published by Newport County Borough Council

Tredegar House Blog - http://www.tredegarhouse.blogspot.com

'Only Evan: The eccentric life of Lord Tredegar' by Paul Busby (2007)

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