Major Sir David Hughes-Morgan, 1st Baronet (c.1870–16 March 1941), born David Hughes Morgan (he changed his surname to Hughes-Morgan by deed poll

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 in 1925), was a Welsh

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 solicitor

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 and landowner.

Hughes Morgan was born in Llandovery

Llandovery

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, Carmarthenshire

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. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford and qualified as a solicitor, becoming a junior partner with Riddell, Vaizey and Smith in London

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After inheriting the estates of his uncle, Colonel John Morgan of Brecon

Brecon

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, he retired from the law and returned home to Wales to administer them. He was High Sheriff of Breconshire for 1899 and Mayor

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 of Tenby

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 eight times, and for this he was knighted

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 in the 1920 New Year Honours and created a Baronet

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 in the 1925 Birthday Honours. He also unsuccessfully contested Tenby Boroughs as a Conservative

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He was commissioned into the 3rd (Militia

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) Battalion, South Wales Borderers in 1891, and was promoted Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in 1893 and Captain

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 in 1907. During the Boer War

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 he commanded a prisoner of war

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 camp in Ireland

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. He resigned his commission in 1906, but in 1907 joined the 1st (Volunteer) Battalion (later the Brecknockshire Battalion), resigning in 1911. During the First World War he returned to his regiment to command a musketry training camp in Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire

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, retiring with the rank of Major

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