Kenneth Owen Morgan, Baron Morgan is a Welsh historian and author, known especially for his writings on Modern British history and politics and on Welsh history. He is also a regular reviewer and broadcaster on radio and television. He was a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University College of Swansea, from 1958 to 1966 and held an ACLS Fellowship at Columbia University, New York in 1962 - 3, also teaching there in 1965. He was a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, from 1966 to 1989 and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales from 1989 to 1995. In this capacity, he served as a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford from 1991 to 1992. In 1983 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy and in 1992 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, and in 2002 of Oriel College, Oxford. Morgan is a member of the Labour Party, and on 12 June 2000 he was made a life peer as Baron Morgan, of Aberdyfi in the County of Gwynedd. He has served on the Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. He was married to the historian and criminologist Dr Jane Morgan, who died in 1992; they had two children together, David and Katherine. 

May 16th, 1934 in (Age 89)