NEW BOOK ON TREDEGAR HOUSE, NEWPORT
“MYTHS ABOUT THE MORGANS OF TREDEGAR HOUSE
BUSTING THE HISTORY FRAUDSTERS”
FROM NEWPORT HISTORIAN :
WILLIAM CROSS
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A
new book about The Morgans of Tredegar
House was launched on 17 June 2018.
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The
book comes from Newport writer William Cross, author of seven other books
featuring members of the Morgan family.
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Promotional
and review copies are now available from the Author. See contact details,
below.
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The
book has been written because of the Author’s
concern over fake
news, myths, and
bad history about
the Morgans in the
public domain.
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The
launch date coincides with the centenary of the consecration of the Morgan
Chapel at St Basil’s Church, Bassaleg, on 17 June 1918.
Highlights of the Book:
Among the myths about the Morgans of Tredegar House is
that they are descended from the Welsh Princes. Some also claim they have a
family link to the notorious Captain Henry Morgan, the blood thirsty pirate of
the Caribbean. Whilst at least one Lord Tredegar is dubbed
‘Cardinal Morgan’, the Pope’s right hand man in Wales’. Such myths are often romantic notions substituted
for fact. Others are inventions. So what
is the truth?
Essential reading for
those interested in Newport’s most famous family and their history and offers sourced material relating to the
Morgans of Tredegar House.
William Cross adds: “In recent years standards of integrity
have fallen. For instance Tredegar
House’s website and job advertisements
have carried unworthy aspersions upon one Lady Tredegar’s hobby of
making bird’s nests, and pitched
inaccurate claims of Godfrey Morgan’s famous war horse “Sir
Briggs” being knighted and buried standing upright. Even in recent weeks
Tredegar House has been described as the ancestral home of the pirate Captain
Henry Morgan of rum fame.”
There are plenty of
wonderful, established and true stories about the Morgans and their collaterals
without adorning the tales told to the visitors with myths, inaccuracies and
fake stories.
Cross adds “ The book is 160 pages long, over 70,000
words with over 400 End Notes and contains
over 100 images, with several unique
pictures of members of the Morgan family that have never
been seen before”.
* Further Enquiries about
the book etc please contact
William Cross
58 Sutton Newport, Newport, NP 19 7JF
Telephone: 01633 779731
FOR EDITORS
“Myths About The Morgans
of Tredegar House, Newport. Busting the History Fraudsters” by William Cross. Book Midden
Publishing ( 2018) ISBN 13 9781905914425
: Release date: 17 June 2018.
Lady Katharine Carnegie, Viscountess Tredegar appears
on the front cover, as painted by the
Welsh artist Augustus John, with permission to use from David Carnegie, His
Grace, the Duke of Fife, who owns the portrait.
Copies of the book can be obtained direct
from the Author and
also on Amazon/ e-bay.
Once the current stock is
sold the book will revert to print on demand.
A PDF copy of the
Introduction “FAKE NEWS” and a Contents Summary may be requested from the
Author ( gratis).
On 17 June 1918 the Bishop of Llandaff consecrated a memorial chapel
at St Basil’s Church, Bassaleg, to the memory of Godfrey Morgan, Viscount Tredegar and his
brother Colonel Hon. Freddie Morgan, commissioned by Courtenay Morgan, 3rd Lord
Tredegar. During 1917 the bodies of the past members of the Morgan family were
removed from the Vault inside St Basil’s
and interred in earth in the Churchyard.
18 June 2018
