| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Tredegar | |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Brecon |
| Term Start: | 1835 |
| Term End: | 1847 |
| Predecessor: | John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins |
| Successor: | John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins |
| Term Start1: | 1830 |
| Term End1: | 1832 |
| Predecessor1: | George Gould Morgan |
| Successor1: | John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins |
| Term Start2: | 1812 |
| Term End2: | 1818 |
| Predecessor2: | Sir Robert Salusbury |
| Successor2: | George Gould Morgan |
| Birth Name: | Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan |
| Birth Date: | 10 April 1792 |
| Nationality: | Welsh |
| Education: | Harrow School Westminster School |
| Alma Mater: | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Parents: | Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet Mary Margaret Stoney |
| Children: | 11, including Charles, Godfrey, Frederick |
| Party: | Whig |
Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (10 April 1792 – 16 April 1875), known as Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Baronet from 1846 to 1859, was a Welsh Whig peer and a member of the House of Lords.
Morgan was born on 10 April 1792.[1] He was the eldest son of Lt.-Col. Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Mary Margaret Stoney. Among his younger brothers were George Gould Morgan, MP for Brecon,[2] Charles Augustus Samuel Morgan,[3] [4] [5] and the antiquarian Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan.[6] Among his sisters were Maria (wife of Francis Miles Milman), Charlotte (wife of George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney), and Angelina (wife of Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd Baronet).[7]
His maternal grandfather was Capt. George Stoney of the Royal Navy.[8] His paternal grandparents were Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet (originally Charles Gould) and the former Jane Morgan (daughter of Judge Advocate Thomas Morgan).[9] His great aunt Jane married the industrialist Samuel Homfray.[10]
He was educated at Harrow School, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (1811).[11]
He was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon in 1812 and was re-elected in 1830 and 1835. Upon his father's death in 1846, he succeeded the baronetcy of Tredegar, created for his grandfather in 1800.[12]
He served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and later in the militia (the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, commissioned as Major on 3 April 1849),[13] and was appointed High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1821–22 and High Sheriff of Brecknockshire for 1850–51. He was created Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth on 16 April 1859 and was Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire from 1866 until his death.[11]
He served as chairman of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, chairman of the Alexandra Dock Company. He also served as president of the Royal Agricultural Society and president of Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1846 until his death in 1875.
In late 1827, Morgan married Rosamund Mundy, the daughter of Maj.-Gen. Godfrey Basil Meynell Mundy and Sarah Brydges Rodney. Together, they lived at Tredegar House, where he was a noted breeder of shorthorn cattle,[14] and had five sons and six daughters, including:
Lord Tredegar died on 16 April 1875 and was succeeded by his second son Godfrey as his eldest son, Charles, predeceased him unmarried and without legitimate male issue.[19]
Through his daughter Ellen, he was a grandfather of Lt.-Col. Morgan Lindsay, Maj.-Gen. George Mackintosh Lindsay, Lionel Arthur Lindsay, who was also chief constable of Glamorgan.[20]
Through his son Frederic,[17] he was a grandfather of Blanche Morgan (wife of Charles Twysden Hoare), Violet Morgan (wife of Maj. Basil St. John Mundy), Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar and Frederic Morgan, 5th Baron Tredegar.[8]