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Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan, QC (20 March 1876 - 8 April 1955) was a British lawyer with expertise in constitutional law. He actively served during World War I and later lectured and wrot...view moreBrigadier-General John Hartman Morgan, QC (20 March 1876 - 8 April 1955) was a British lawyer with expertise in constitutional law. He actively served during World War I and later lectured and wrote on the topic.
Morgan was born in 1876 to Reverend David Morgan and Julia Wethli. He was educated at Caterham School, the University College of South Wales and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history. He joined the Inner Temple before becoming part of the literary staff at the Daily Chronicle from 1901-1903. After spending time on a research scholarship at the University of Berlin, he became a leader-writer at the Manchester Guardian from 1904-1905.
On the outbreak of WWI, he volunteered for military service and was appointed to the adjutant-general’s staff. He was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law at University College London in 1915. He was an assistant adjutant general with the military section of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the British member on the Prisoners of War Commission in 1919. He was at the Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control as Deputy Adjutant-General in Berlin from 1919-1923, and retired from the army in 1923 with the rank of Brigadier-General. From 1947-1949, he acted as a legal adviser to the United Nations War Crimes Commission at Nuremberg.
He was appointed King’s Counsel in 1926 and served as a legal editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to The Times. Between 1926-1932, he was a reader in constitutional law to the Inns of Court and Rhodes Lecturer at London. From 1933-1939, he served as counsel to the India Defence League, Indian Chamber of Princes, the Indian State of Gwalior, and Tagore Professor at the University of Calcutta.
Brig.-Gen. Morgan died in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England in 1955, aged 79.view less