Syd Morgan is aWelsh nationalistpolitician.
Morgan studied at theUniversity College Swansea and became active inPlaid Cymru. He was a founder member of the National Left group within the party in 1980.[1]
By 1984, Morgan was aPlaid Cymru member of theRhymney Valley District Council, and was also the party's Senior Vice-Chairman, while working as a housing officer inCardiff.[2] At the1984 European election, Morgan stood inSouth Wales East, taking fourth place with 8.7% of the votes cast.[3] Later in the year, he was elected as party chairman, serving until 1990 when he became its treasurer. Morgan stood for the UK Parliament at the1989 Pontypridd by-election, in which he took second place with more than a quarter of the vote.[4]
In 1992, Morgan marriedJill Evans, a prominent Plaid politician.[5] Following the redistricting of local government in Wales, he became a councillor inRhondda Cynon Taf for many years, losing his seat in 2004 and last standing in 2008.[6] He works as a lecturer atSwansea University, was until 2011 a member of the bureau of theCentre Maurits Coppieters, and was a founder of the Welsh Nationalism Foundation.[7]
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| Preceded by | Chair ofPlaid Cymru 1984–1990 | Succeeded by |
