Roger Morgan

Roger Hugh Vaughan Charles Morgan (8 July 1926 – 10 June 2018) was an English librarian who spent four decades in the Houses of Parliament. He is credited with modernising the House of Lords Library as head librarian from 1977 to 1991.

Early life and education

Morgan was born in Chelsea, London, the son of novelists Charles Langbridge Morgan and Hilda Vaughan. His paternal grandfather was engineer Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan. He was the younger brother of Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (1924–2017).

He and his sister grew up in Notting Hill until the Second World War, when, fearing a Nazi invasion after the Battle of Dunkirk, they moved with their mother to America.

Personal life From 1951 to 1965, Morgan was married to Catherine Harriet Waterfield, with whom he had a son and daughter, James and Lucie, and two sons, Luke and Piers, who predeceased him. and had another son, Tobias.

He suffered three strokes before dying in 2018, aged 91.