author
Godfrey Charles Morgan
1830–1913
A Welsh aristocrat, soldier, and public figure, he lived a life shaped by military service and inherited rank. His name is also closely tied to Jules Verne’s adventure novel about a shipwrecked young traveler, which has kept it familiar to later readers.
1 Audiobook
Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar
by Godfrey Charles Morgan
About the author
Born in 1831, he became Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, a Welsh officer in the British Army and a peer in the House of Lords. Sources consistently describe him as a military and political figure rather than a literary author, so readers may know the name more from history than from book jackets.
There is also a separate literary connection: Godfrey Morgan is the title character of Jules Verne’s 1882 adventure novel Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery (also known as School for Robinsons or School for Crusoes). Because of that overlap, this name can easily be mistaken for an author entry when it is actually shared by both a real historical person and a fictional hero.
He died in 1913. If this listing is meant for the historical Godfrey Charles Morgan, the most accurate short description is that he was a prominent Welsh nobleman and army officer; if it is meant for the Verne-related book title, the actual author is Jules Verne.