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TREDEGAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 234 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TREDEGAR  , an

urban
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district in the western
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parliamentary division of
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Monmouthshire, England, on the Sirhowy
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river, 24 m. north of
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Cardiff, on a joint
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line of the
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London & North-Western and the
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Rhymney
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railways . Pop . (root), 18,497 . It stands at an
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elevation of about l000 ft., and owes its existence to the establishment in the beginning of the 19th century of the
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works of the Tredegar Iron and
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Coal
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Company, which employ most of the large
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industrial population . The place gave the title of Baron Tredegar (c . 1859) to
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Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, Bart . (1792-1875), whose grandfather, Sir Charles Gould, Bart., married the heiress of John Morgan of Tredegar and changed his name to Morgan . He was M.P. for Brecknock in 1835-1847 . He married a granddaughter of the 1st Lord Rodney . His son Godfrey (b . 183o), who succeeded to the
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barony, was created Viscount Tredegar in 1905; he had served in the Crimea and taken
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part in the famous Balaclava charge .

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