Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar

Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (July 13, 1893 – April 1949) was a Welsh poet and author. The only son of Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire, and Lady Katherine Carnegie, he was a chamberlain to Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI yet, as an accomplished occultist, was hailed by Aleister Crowley as "Adept of Adepts".^{[citation needed]}

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

A noted eccentric, he kept at his seat of Tredegar House in Newport a menagerie of animals including a boxing kangaroo, honey bear, baboon and macaw. His weekend 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.

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

Despite his known homosexuality and reputation for dissipation, he married twice. His wives were:

• Hon. Lois Sturt (1900–1937), an actress and daughter of Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington; they married in 1928.
• Princess Olga Sergievna Dolgorouky (1915–1998); they married in 1939 in Singapore and the marriage was annulled in 1943.

Works

• Fragments
• At Dawn
• The Eel
• The City of Canals

See also

• Tredegar House
• Ruperra Castle
• Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar

References

Information taken from:

• Tredegar House guide book (1985) published by Newport County Borough Council
• Tredegar House Blog
• Only Evan: The eccentric life of Lord Tredegar by Paul Busby (Awaiting Publication)

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Courtenay Morgan	Viscount Tredegar 1934–1949	Extinct
	Baron Tredegar 1934–1949	Succeeded by Frederic Morgan