Edmund Sears Morgan

Edmund Sears Morgan 1916-, U.S. historian, b. Minneapolis. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1942, he taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1945-46) and at Brown (1946-55) before becoming (1955) professor of history at Yale. An expert on American colonial history, Morgan writes in a way that appeals to the general reading public while maintaining high scholarly standards. His many books include The Puritan Family (1944, rev. and enl. ed. 1966), The Stamp Act Crisis, with his wife Helen M. Morgan (1953, rev. ed. 1963), The Puritan Dilemma (1958) and biographies of Ezra Stiles (1962) and Roger Williams (1967).

Campion, Edmund (d. 1581), English scholar subsequently executed as a Jesuit traitor, the guest of leading Dublin families in 1570–1. The result was Histories of Ireland—a typical example of Renaissance historiography, with emphasis on moral exemplification, education, and reforming statesmanship. The account puffed up the Old English role in Ireland and lionized the deputy‐ship of Sidney, even though his parliament then terminating had come close to disaster. Campion's Histories remained unpublished until 1633, but in the mean time they had been used by various scholars, especially Richard Stanihurst in his contribution to Holinshed's Chronicles (1577).

Hiram Morgan

Gallagher, Peter (b. 1955), actor and singer. The dark, handsome leading man has mostly played sleazy phonies on screen but likable guys on stage. He was born in Armonk, New York, and started acting in Boston while attending Tufts University. Gallagher studied with Robert Lewis at the Actors Studio and made his Broadway debut in 1977 as a replacement for the leading role in Grease. He first attracted attention as the romantic composer Otto in the short‐lived musical A Doll's House (1982), followed by such notable performances as the Welsh youth Morgan Evans yearning for education in The Corn Is Green (1983); the sickly, poetic Edmund Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night (1986); the swank gambler Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (1992); and the frustrated director Lloyd Dallas in Noises Off (2001).