File C/3 - Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan (1921-1994) was a poet from Penrhiwceiber, Glamorgan. The son of a miner, he worked together with his father in the colliery from the age of fourteen. In 1953, he qualified as a teacher at Bognor Regis College of Education, West Sussex. He taught mentally and physically ill boys. Among his publications are The Night's Prison (1967), The Storm (1974), and his autobiography My Lamp Still Burns (1981).

Robert Morgan (1921-1994) was born in Penrhiw-ceibr, and began working as a miner with his father at fourteen years of age. He won the short-story competition at the South Wales Miners' Eisteddfod for two successive years and, aged twenty-six, attended Fircroft College, Birmingham, and subsequently Bognor Regis College of Education, qualifying as a teacher in 1953. He spent a number of years as a special needs teacher in Hampshire, and became a full-time writer on his retirement in 1981. In addition to poetry he wrote plays, short stories and novels, and his paintings, which also reflect his upbringing and career, have been exhibited on a number of occasions.