John Vyrnwy Morgan (21 March 1860 – 9 August 1925), usually known as J. Vyrnwy Morgan, was a Welsh Congregationalist minister and author. Early life Born at 166, Park Row, Cwmafan, 21 March 1860, second son of John Morgan, J. Vyrnwy Morgan was admitted a member of Seion Congregational Church, Cwmafan, at the age of 13. He trained for the ministry at Aberavon Academy, and Memorial College, Brecon. While in Brecon he met and fell in love with Sarah Edwards, daughter of the minister of Watergate Baptist Chapel, Brecon. They were married in 1884 at Christchurch Congregational Chapel, Oswestry. They were to have four surviving children, three sons and a daughter. Morgan was ordained in 1884, and took charge of the Congregational mission at Llanwddyn, where he ministered to the villagers and the workmen engaged in the construction of the Liverpool Waterworks at Lake Vyrnwy. In 1889 he moved from here to Liverpool, where he pastored Burlington Street Congregational Chapel. Much of the ministry at Burlington Street was conducted with the aim of reaching out to the poor of the district around the chapel. He left Liverpool in late 1891, intending to take a pastorate in Cardiff. Illness prevented Vyrnwy Morgan from taking up the difficult work he had planned to do in Cardiff. Instead, Morgan accepted an invitation from the English Congregational Church in Pontypridd, where he started in 1892. Difficulties with the pastor of the Welsh Congregational Church caused Morgan to leave the chapel in 1893, accepting a pastorate at York Road Chapel, Lambeth. In London, Morgan became known as a hard-working, enthusiastic minister, his wife, Sarah, filling his pulpit on a number of occasions. Thomas Edward Ellis also spoke at the chapel, and it was rumoured that Vyrnwy Morgan was planning to enter parliament. In September 1895, Morgan was baptised by total immersion at Watergate Chapel, Brecon, his father-in-law performing the rite. This change of denomination meant a change of pulpits, and in November 1895, John Vyrnwy Morgan was inducted to the Pastorate of Tabernacle English Baptist Chapel, Waun Wen, Swansea. While here, he published his first book, a life of Kilsby Jones, which met with critical acclaim. The pastorate was not a success, and in 1897 Morgan left for American, where he accepted the pastorate of First Baptist Church Omaha, Nebraska. In 1899, Vyrnwy Morgan left Nebraska, on account of his wife's poor health, which he