





At sea on a health trip around the world in the early 1930s Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, 3rd Lord Tredegar ( 1867-1934) ( he is second from right). The picture also includes Avis Morgan ( Mrs Gurney) ( extreme left), niece of Courtenay Morgan and Lois Sturt ( Hon. Mrs Evan Morgan), Courtenay's daughter in law.

Princess Olga Sergeivna Dolgorouky, 1915-1998
Viscountess Tredegar 1939-1998. After divorcing Evan in 1943 Olga continued to refer to herself as Viscountess Tredegar
2nd wife of Evan, Frederic Morgan ( 1893-1949)

The Hon. Violet Wilhelmina Morgan was born on 24th September 1860 at Ruperra Castle, Newport, Monmouthshire. She was the daughter of Frederick Courtney Morgan and Charlotte Anne (nee Williamson) and sister of Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, 3rd Lord Tredegar, niece of 1st Viscount Tredegar Godfrey Charles Morgan of Balaclava fame. She married Major Basil St. John Mundy, son of Maj.-Gen. Pierrepont Henry Mundy and Harriet Georgina Tyler, on 28 August 1894. She died on 22 December 1943. Her only son Frederick Charles Mundy was killed in the Great War. As the picture suggests Violet was associated with horse racing and riding throughout her life. Pictured here on horseback, with her horse trainer, Fred Day.


Joanna Law-Smith ( Later Russell, then Morgan ) (died as Mrs Bruce Yorke, 2002) : Wife of John Morgan (1908-1962). Married 1954. John predeceased her. John Morgan was the 6th and last Lord Tredegar. His father Frederic George Morgan – brother of Courtenay Morgan ( 3rd Lord) was 5th Lord ( at Evan’s death in 1949) handed everything over to John to avoid double death duties. Frederic ( usually termed Uncle Freddie/ Freddy to Evan) died in 1954.

Little Gwyneth Ericka Morgan only daughter of Courtenay and Lady Katharine Morgan, playing outside Ruperra Castle, the seat of the heir to the Morgan/ Tredegar family titles. Gwyneth was born in 1895 and died in 1924.

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