“Morgan fully intended to make a motorcycle but changed tack.”

Henry Frederick Stanley (‘HFS’) Morgan was born in early August 1881, at Moreton Jefferies Rectory, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, 12 miles from Malvern. His father was the local rector, a position he’d taken over from his own father, who’d moved the family west out of London in 1871.

HFS was the oldest child of Henry George (HG) and Florence Morgan (the couple had met in south London and married in 1875) and was to have three younger sisters and a brother, though the male sibling died before his third