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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 See also:

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

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