Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Morgan, J.
MORGAN, J. (fl. 1739), historical compiler, projected and edited a periodical of great merit, entitled 'Phoenix Britannicus, being a miscellaneous Collection of scarce and curious Tracts… interspersed with choice pieces from original MSS.,' the first number of which appeared in January 1731-1732. Owing to want of encouragement it was discontinued after six numbers had been issued, but Morgan republished them in a quarto volume, together with an excellent index. Prefixed is a curiously slavish dedication to Charles, duke of Richmond, whom Morgan greets as a brother freemason. Three editions of the work are in the British Museum Library. In 1739 Morgan compiled, chiefly from what purported to be papers of George Sale the orientalist, an entertaining volume called 'The Lives and Memorable Actions of many Illustrious Persons of the Eastern Nations,' 12mo, London.
[Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. Bohn.]