John MORGAN founded his company in the early 1800's during the Napoleonic wars, the time of WELLINGTON and NELSON, establishing the company as "Army and Military Tailors". From 1920-1960's the house was headed by one of Saville ROW's most colourful and illustrious tailors John KING WILSON. John KING WILSON was the only row tailor ever to cut for an American President and a British Prime Minister at the same time: John F. KENNEDY and Harold MacMillan. John MORGAN purchased the freehold property of no.5 Albemarle Street from the Dowager Duchess of Lansdowne, whose residence it had been, and opened his tailoring shop in 1825. John MORGAN was believed to have come from Edinburgh. He probably had a good trade before opening in Albemarle Street, as he received the Royal Warrant in 1836 from the King of Hanover, Prince Ernest Augustus, a younger brother of King George IV and King William IV. At one time, the only daughter of the Duke of Kent (later Queen Victoria) stood between him and the throne of Great Britain. There were some fears for her safety as he was of a violent nature. John MORGAN also had the Duke of Cambridge (later army chief in Victoria’s time), another of the king’s brothers, as a customer. Later in the century, John MORGAN received the Royal Warrant for Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort. A five-feet by four-feet mahogany-framed blue glass and gold leaf inscription hung in the front shop proclaiming as such. John MORGAN made clothes for George Canning, and foreign secretary and later prime minster, Lord Palmerston, two of whose silk embroidered waistcoats hung in a mahogany frame in the shop. John MORGAN banked with the Western Branch of the Bank of England in Burlington Gardens, formally the house of Lord Melbourne, prime minister of Great Britain. In 1833 John MORGAN was awarded the contract to make all the bank uniforms, pink parlour coats, bank managers’ uniforms and capes, bullion men’s outfits, and more. The contract lasted one-hundred years, until 1933. A wooden sign hung in the front shop with the legend painted on it: ‘To the Hon. the Gov. Coy of the Bank of England John Morgan & Co. 1833’. At some date in the nineteenth century, John MORGAN was appointed the official London tailors to the Royal Company of Archers, the Sovereign’s bodyguard in Scotland.