MORGAN, Charles Leonard Thomas (1875- ) was active in Vancouver, B.C. where he was one of twenty architects who submitted an entry in the competition for the Master Plan of the University of British Columbia (inf. UBC Archives, List of Competitors, dated 14 Nov. 1912). The entry by Morgan was not among the four finalists. In 1913 he announced the opening of his own office ( Const., vi, Feb. 1913, 70), and in that year he designed a major addition to Lord Strathcona School, Jackson Street, VANCOUVER, B.C., begun 1913 but not completed until 1927 (H. Kalman, Exploring Vancouver, 1978, 72, illus.). He was also credited with the design of Henry Hudson School, Cypress Street, VANCOUVER, B.C., 1913 (dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives), and he designed a new 8 room public school in West Kitsilano, at West Sixth Avenue at Collingwood Street, Vancouver (Vancouver Sun, 28 April 1913, 19, t.c.).
Morgan was educated and trained in London, England where he articled at first with Richard M.D. Fell (in 1892-96), then with Sir Mervyn E. Macartney, FRIBA, a leading Edwardian architect there, and later worked as assistant to Balfour & Turner. He commenced practice in London in 1902, and appears to have emigrated to Canada in 1910 or 1911. He settled in Vancouver in late 1911, and in January 1913 he was selected as architect to the Vancouver School Board, to succeed Norman Leech (The Sun [Vancouver], 28 Jan. 1913, 2). However, in July 1913 both Morgan and his three draftsmen in the Architectural Dept. of the Board were dismissed because of the reduction in building activity in Vancouver (Vancouver Sun, 31 July 1913, 1). Morgan then left Canada and returned to England where he maintained a busy office in London until at least 1923 (biog. and list of works in F. Chatterton, Who's Who in Architecture, 1923, 176; biog. R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, ii, 207)