[1] Educated at Bedford Modern School,[2] Morgan emigrated to South Australia, arriving in Port Adelaide on 13 February 1849 in the Glenelg.

[3] In 1882 they joined a consortium, the Adelaide Milling and Mercantile Company, with John Hart & Co., W. Duffield & Co., James Cowan & Co. and Harrold Brothers; Morgan was their foundation chairman.

[4] Morgan was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in August 1867, and was chief secretary in the second James Boucaut government from June 1875 to March 1876.

One important measure passed was that providing deep drainage for Adelaide, the first city in Australia to have a proper sewerage system.

[6] Pressure of private business, including bad investments in New Caledonia, resulted in Morgan's resignation on 24 June 1881, and the John Bray ministry came in.