• Sir Morien Bedford Morgan CB FRS (20 December 1912 – 4 April 1978), was a noted Welsh aeronautical engineer, sometimes known as "the Father of Concorde"...
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    married Morien Morgan, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who died in 1997, and they had three sons, the oldest being Dylan Morgan. Elaine Morgan began...
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    masculine form of which, *Mori-genos, survived in Middle Welsh as Moryen or Morien; a cognate form in Old Irish is Muirgen, the name of a Celtic Christian...
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  • of Cambridge Engineering Department". Retrieved 28 January 2014. Sir Morien Morgan, Sir Arnold Hall (November 1977). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of...
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    Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee, or STAC, to be formed under Sir Morien Morgan to investigate the creation of a supersonic transport. Its first report...
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    Arnold Hall, director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), asked Morien Morgan to form a committee to study supersonic transport. The group met in...
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    "boffins and boffinettes", which include the brilliant aerodynamicists Morien Morgan, Handel Davies, Dai Morris and P. A. Hufton, and the "boffinettes" like...
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    Howard Marks (drug smuggler and author) William Morgan (physician, physicist and statistician) Sir Morien Morgan (aeronautical engineer) Josh Navidi (rugby...
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    McKinley William Hawthorne Alec Broers Kenneth Bray Andrew Clennel Palmer Morien Morgan Christopher Hinton David J. C. MacKay Michael F. Ashby Kenneth L. Johnson...
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    Executive of Wolseley plc Ben Miller 1966 Writer, Actor and Comedian Morien Morgan 1912 1978 Master of Downing College, Cambridge, known as "the father...
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    (1954–59) Dean McDonald English professional footballer (1998–2002) Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautical engineer and master from 1972 to 1978 of Downing College...
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    Commons, Heseltine paid tribute to the work done by Mr Justice Lane, Sir Morien Morgan and Captain Jessop for the work they had carried out during the inquiry...
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  • Philosophy 1952–1973 Succeeded by G. E. L. Owen Preceded by Sir Lionel Whitby Master of Downing College, Cambridge 1957–1972 Succeeded by Morien Morgan...
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    police at a strikers' "riot", 1898 Welsh journalist and druidist Owen "Morien" Morgan destroys an image of Saint David with a cudgel, Dame Wales looks on...
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  • Professional and academic associations Preceded by Sir Morien Morgan President of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1968–69 Succeeded by Air Cdre Francis...
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  • Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. In 1978 on the death of Sir Morien Morgan he was elected Master of Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a...
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  • aviation designer Hans Moravec (born 1948) – space tether developer Morien Morgan (1912–1978) – 'Father of the Concorde' George Mueller (1918–2015) –...
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  • Aviation Concorde Committee that produced the Concorde, working alongside Morien Morgan. His designs include the Blenheim, Britannia, Type 188 and many others...
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    featured in Christopher Nolan's 2017 action-thriller film Dunkirk. Sir Morien Morgan led research into supersonic transport in 1948 that culminated in the...
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    Owen Morgan, also known by his bardic name Morien (1836 – 16 December 1921) was a Welsh journalist, and a writer of books on the subject of neo-druidism...
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  • Paul Scott, novelist, playwright and poet (born 1920) 4 April – Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer (born 1912) 9 April – Sir Clough Williams-Ellis...
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  • November 1956† William Keith Chambers Guthrie 28 April 1957 1972 Sir Morien Morgan 1972 4 April 1978† Sir John Butterfield 1978 1987 Peter Mathias 1987...
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  • of Cambridge Engineering Department". Retrieved 28 January 2014. Sir Morien Morgan, Sir Arnold Hall (November 1977). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of...
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    Republic of Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Died: Morien Morgan CB FRS, 65, Welsh aeronautical engineer who led the effort of designing...
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  • Welsh name Morgen was pronounced "Morien" in the twelfth century, and that aside from living on an island, Morgan le Fay was not associated with the...
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  • Rhoose Airport is opened by The Duke of Edinburgh. date unknown Sir Morien Morgan becomes Master of Downing College, Cambridge. The island of Flat Holm...
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  • slate at Oakeley Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, ceases. 22 May – Engineer Morien Morgan becomes Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough...
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  • March - David Price-White, lawyer and politician, 71 4 April - Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer, 65 9 April - Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect...
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    theoretical and applied physics. Dylan Morgan was born in 1946 in Burnley, Lancashire to Morien and Elaine Morgan. He was educated at a Welsh-speaking primary...
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  • 1956 Air Chief Marshal Sir Claude Pelly 1959 Sir George Gardner 1963 Morien Morgan 1967 Air Marshal Sir Christopher Hartley 1 September 1970 Air Marshal...
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