David Thomas Morgan

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David Thomas Morgan (17 September 1809 – 14 November 1886)[1] was a British timber merchant, known as a translator of hymns.[2]

Morgan was born in East Ham, and attended a school in Woodford run by Dr. Oake.[2] He traded in timber under his own name, then going into partnership with his cousin, Thomas Samuel Gellibrand, the partners trading as Morgan, Gellibrand & Co.[3] He was also a director of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company.[4][5]

In 1861 Morgan moved from Leytonstone a short distance to the Clock House, Wood Street, Walthamstow, in the area called Whipps Cross. There he built up a good library. A generation later the building was used by the Salvation Army.[6][7][8][9] He withdrew from the partnership with Gellibrand and David John Morgan, his son, in 1867.[10]

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