Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameGeorgina Victoria SYMONDSON, 2C1R
Birth3 Sep 1926, Manchester, Lancashire, England
DeathAug 2021, Hove, Sussex, England
OccupationActress
FatherAlfred Victor SYMONDSON (1898-1949)
MotherAmy Ada Beatrice GRIMSHAW (1901-1990)
Spouses
Birth8 Dec 1921, Lewisham, London, England
Death25 Aug 2005, Brighton, Sussex, England
OccupationActor
FatherFrederic Rowland MORGAN (1896-1958)
MotherMuriel Ursula GRANT (1901-)
Marriage23 Mar 1947
Children(Private)
Notes for Georgina Victoria SYMONDSON
Stage name Georgina Jumel

As her parents were actors who travelled she was often raised by others.
Her Grimshaw grandparents for the first 2 years.
Lived the next 4 years with her father’s sister Coonie Barge (nee Symondson), her husband William Barge and cousin Maidie Barge at 89 Vicarage Road, Willesden, London, an off-licence business.
The 1 year at boarding school.
Then lived with her father’s brother Lionel Symondson and his wife Nita and their daughter Mary. She attended a local private school.
Later Gunnersbury Lane, Acton to a home purchased by her parents but still living with Lionel and his wife. She attended a diffrent private school.
Then her mother’s parents moved to the house replacing her uncle and aunt.
Then her parents were home for the summer.
The day after world war II started she was moved to Sale near Manchester to live with mother’s parents, again.
Leftschool a year early at the age of 16 and became a dancer.
In about 1945 at the age of 19 as an actor she was given a small part in a play directed by Lawrence Olivier, starring Olivier’s wife Vivien Leigh. Also in the play was Terry Morgan who became her husband.

In the October to December 1926 birth index Georgina V. Symondson, Manchester South, Lancashire, mother’s maiden name Grimshaw, volume 8d, page 232.

In the January to March 1947 marriage index Georgina V. Symondson and Terence I. G. Morgan, Westminster, Middlesex, volume 5c, page 774.

UK Outgoing Passenger Lists
Departed February 14, 1948, Liverpool, England, on the Corinthic, destination Freemantle, Australia, 1st class, last address in UK British Council.
Mr. Terence Morgan, age 26, actor.
Mrs. Georgina Morgan, age 21, actress.

Sir Lawrence Olivier, age 40, actor.
Lady Vivien Olivier, age 34, actress.
There are 26 others listed after travelling in the same group who are actors, actresses, general manager, wardrobe, dressers and secretaries, including Peter Cushing and his wife.

London electoral Registers 1950
19 Irving Street, Charing Cross Ward, London and Westminster
Olga Le Moine
Georgina V. Morgan
Terence I. Morgan

Ann E. Parker
Roger J. Parker

From The Stage
www.thestage.co.uk
Betty brilliant
Published Thursday 19 August 2004 at 10:30
My family and I were thrilled at the lovely article Terry Hallett wrote about my mother Betty Jumel (Heydays, July 22, page 23). She was a very special person and our house was always full of laughter when she was around. She never stopped working from the age of 12, initially with her father Harold Jumel and then, until her sixties, in her own right.

We are from a theatrical family and our grandson, at 16 years old, is determined to be an actor like his grandfather Terence Morgan.
I would like to mention that I do not recall my mother playing Humpty Dumpty in Belfast but she definitely played it at the London Palladium with Terry Thomas playing the king. Peggy Mount played the wicked witch and told my mother that she would be - Peggy Mount, that is - a big star. And so she was.
Georgina Morgan
Nizells Ave, Hove, East Sussex
end of quote

Author of a Book
Laughter in the Air, - a Tale of Love, Stage and Screen, October 2011
Georgina Morgan

Death month and location from the Morgan tree at ancestry by RogerMorganuk
Notes for Terence Ivan Grant (Spouse 1)
In the January to March 1922 birth index Terrance [as spelled] I. G. Morgan, mother’s maiden name Grant, Lewisham, London, volume 1d, page 1945

1939 England and Wales Register
Fairlawn, Fairbank Lane, woking, Surrey
1. John A. Lupton, born July 14 1901, married, director of textile company
2. Muriel U. Upton, born May ? 1902, married, housewife
3. Terence I. G. Morgan, born December 8 1921, single, clerk - ibsurance industry
4. Helen L. Grant born November 19 1875, housewife retired [could she be an aunt of Terence?]
5. record offically closed
6. childrens nurse
7. domestic servant

In the August 2005 death index Terence Ivan G. Morgan, born December 8, 1921, age 83, Brighton, Sussex, register A16B, district 452/1A, entry 15.

The Telegraph August 31, 2005

Terence Morgan, who died on August 25 aged 83, was a familiar figure on stage and screen in the 1940s and 1950s after being discovered by Laurence Olivier; later he became well known to television viewers for his role as Sir Francis Drake.
A handsome man, he first came to notice as Laertes to Olivier's Hamlet in the 1948 screen version of the play - his skilled swordsmanship was a particular feature of his performance.
He went on to specialise in playing the ne'er do well, the plausible louse or the gang-leader, and was given some dramatic exits: Dance Little Lady (1954) saw him fry in the conflagration at the end; The Scamp (1957) had him suffer a fatal fall down a flight of stairs; another fall had dispatched him in Turn the Key Softly (1953); and in Forbidden Cargo (1954), he attempted to drive across Tower Bridge as it was opening and drowned in the Thames.
Terence Morgan was born at Lewisham, south-east London, on December 8 1921. On leaving school he earned £1 a week as a clerk in an insurance firm before winning a scholarship to Rada. He served in the Army for two years before being invalided out.
His first professional appearance was at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in The Astonished Ostrich. He later played in repertory at Letchworth.
It was when Olivier was impressed by his performance in the West End in There Shall Be No Night that his career began to take off - Olivier gave Morgan the role of Cain in Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, with Vivien Leigh, in 1945.
Morgan spent a season with the Oliviers at the New Theatre, playing parts in Sheridan and Shakespeare. He then toured Australia and New Zealand with the company.
After appearing in the film version of Hamlet he did a further season at the Old Vic. Having decided to move into films, he played the hero in Shadow of the Past (1950). He was then a dashing St Gerard in Captain Horatio Hornblower RN (1951).
Having returned to the stage in Frou Frou (New Lindsay Theatre) and The Martin's Nest (Westminster), Morgan embarked on his career as a charismatic bounder. In Encore (1951) he was Syd Cotman, who forced his frail wife nightly to dive from a great height into shallow water on the French Riviera; he was the insensitive father in Mandy (1952) and a flashy rotter in Street Corner (1953).
He was permitted a few sympathetic roles, such as in Always a Bride and The Steel Key, both in 1953; he rescued Trilby from Svengali's clutches in 1954; and was the impoverished Irish baronet in The March Hare (1955), a whimsical story about horse-racing.
The English Stage Company claimed Morgan for The Country Wife at the Adelphi in 1957, and a year later he was in the two-hander Double Cross at the Duchess, with Dulcie Gray.
Morgan starred as Sir Francis Drake in the television series of the same name, screened in 1961-62; Drake's ship, Golden Hind, was a converted former motor fishing vessel which had been used during the Second World War as a harbour launch. He later appeared in films such as The Shakedown (1959), Piccadilly Third Stop (1960) and The Penthouse (1967).
Thereafter parts were harder to come by; but in 1986 he gave a haunting performance on television as an ageing, homosexual matinée idol being blackmailed in an episode of King and Castle.
Terence Morgan was married to the actress Georgina Jumel for 58 years; she and their daughter survive him.

end of quote

From another source.

A sea-lover who had lived in Hove, East Sussex, since 1958, Morgan ran a small hotel there for 16 years and spent an increasing amount of time as a property developer in Brighton and Hove, rather than taking theatre roles away from his home and family.
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