With thanks to Historian Poet Becky Bishop for finding Evan Morgan, who was a cousin of Raymond Juzio Paul de Rodakowski-Rivers (1895 - 1917)
In 1917, following a period of ill health, Evan became private secretary to British government minister William Clive Bridgeman. From 1915 to 1916, Bridgeman was Lord of the Treasury and Assistant Director of the War Trade Department. With the creation of Lloyd George's coalition in 1916, Bridgeman became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour until 1919 and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1919 and 1920, after which he served as Secretary for Mines from 1920 to 1922.
On 3rd March 1934, Evan succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Morgan, 4th Baron Tredegar, and 2nd Viscount Tredegar, after the death of his father.
During the Second World War, Evan served with MI8, his responsibility was to monitor carrier pigeons. He carelessly let slip on occasion departmental secrets to two girl guides and was court martialed but not sent to jail or worse.
Evan received the following awards: He was decorated with the following awards:
Knight of Honour and Devotion, Sovereign and Military Order of Malta
Knight of Justice, Constantinian Order of St. George
Knight of Justice, Order of St. John of Jerusalem (KJStJ)
Commander, Order of the Holy Sepulchre (with star)
Here is one of his poems:
“What of the Dead ?”
IF in the repose of an arbour
Under a western sky
One dreams of a vast eternal
And one questions the reason why ;
Why joy should dissolve into sorrow,
Why pearls should melt in the wine,
And whether the new dawning morrow
Will reckon the close of our time ?
If in the repose of the arbour
One gazes on nature around,
Is there some definite answer
In the earth or the sky to be found ?
Are we the pawns of a Jevah
That move on a cross-chequered board ?
Propelled from the back by a lever,
Controlled, supervised by a Lord ?
Given a pen as a plaything
To scribble out poems and plays
Works that we worship with reverence,
The blossoms of earlier days
Given a spirit of reason,
Given a mind to attend,
Given a soul filled with treason
To embitter and poison the end ?
Is there a peaceful Nirvana ?
Is there a rest for the soul ?
A bed for the toil-driven Karma,
A telos ? a Heaven ? a goal ?
What of the slain in the battle ?
What of the dead on the field ?
Foul slaughtered like horses and cattle,
Those men that we use as a shield :
If ever a soul got to Heaven !
If ever soul reaped a reward !
Those whose red blood has been given
A gift to their own native sward :
Those are the ones for a Heaven,
For a peace and a pleasure unknown,
By their work are they all self-forgiven,
Let their blood for His Blood atone.
From “Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting Men” Edited by Galloway Kyle (Erskine Macdonald, London, 1916). This is now available as a free download from Archive:
https://archive.org/stream/soldierpoetssong00kyleuoft/soldierpoetssong00kyleuoft_djvu.txt
Although he apparently painted a great deal in his younger years and exhibited his work in Paris, I have so far only been able to find a self portrait by Evan.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Morgan,_2nd_Viscount_Tredegar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI8
https://biography.wales/article/s2-MORG-FRE-1893
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/the-double-life-of-evan-morgan/
https://alchetron.com/Evan-Morgan,-2nd-Viscount-Tredegar
https://tredegarhouse.wordpress.com/tag/robert-graves/?fbclid=IwAR3UXMs5muA4phLdHLi_sj_5-qYpXURMryfJyYBks2Q65Y4bJB2R6J6dRm8