Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, RICHARD JONES (Glaslyn; 1831 - 1909), poet and prose-writer connection with the slate-quarries, and in 1869 he was manager of a small slate-quarry in Duffryn Ardudwy. In 1877 the Owen s removed to the village of Bryntirion, Nantmor, and shortly afterwards to a cottage called Pen-y-groes, near Aberglaslyn Bridge. On 17 May 1902 Glaslyn suffered the loss of his wife. Thereupon he entered ' Llys Ednyfed,' Penrhyndeudraeth, where he died on 13 March 1909 at the age of
OWEN, ROBERT (1858 - 1885), schoolmaster and poet Born 30 March 1858 at Tai Croesion, a small farm not far from Llanaber church, Merionethshire; son of Gruffydd Owen, boatman and farmer, and his wife Margaret. The particulars given here are taken from the biography written by (Sir) Owen M. Edwards for the selection made by him of the poems by Robert Owen, published in 1904 at Llanuwchllyn. When he was four years old, Robert Owen moved with his
OWEN, THOMAS (1748 - 1812), cleric and translator christened 3 September 1748, the son of Thomas and Margaret Owen of Rhiwlas, in the village of Pentraeth, Anglesey. On 20 March 1767 he matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1770. Early in 1771 he describes himself as 'deputy' to the librarian of the Bodleian Library. Owen was ordained deacon at the Trinity ordination, 1771, by the bishop of Oxford by letters dimissory from
OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (1764 - 1814), cleric Born at Conway 5 December 1764, but not christened till 25 March 1765; son of William Owen, draper and tax-collector, and his wife Elizabeth Ellis of Glan-y-wern, Mochdre, daughter of John Ellis, a lawyer. He went up from Westminster School in 1785 to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1789. In 1790 he was given the college living of South Stoke, Oxfordshire, but on 10 December 1794 became
OWEN, WILLIAM (fl. c. 1486-1574), lawyer Fitzherbert, one of the justices of Common Pleas. He brought out two editions of a small abridgement of the laws which were published by Pynson in 1521 and 1528 respectively. It is not certain that an edition dated 1499 was by him, although the supposition that it was is not ruled out by its early date, for it is said that when Owen died, on 29 March 1574, hale and hearty to the end, he was over 100 years
OWEN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1830), Evangelical cleric Port. The bishop of Hereford gave him the vicarage of Almeley on 11 December 1816; to that was added, on 6 March 1823, the rectory of Ryme Intrinsica, Sherborne, of which the prince of Wales (afterwards king George IV) was the patron. He often visited Pembrokeshire and, when his father died, became the owner of Frongoch. He was an active supporter of the Church Missionary Society. He died 4 February
OWENS, OWEN (1794 - 1838), leader of the 'Little Wesleyan' movement Owens was the prime mover, and he travelled extensively in Caernarvonshire, Montgomeryshire, and Cardiganshire on behalf of the new connexion, not without a good measure of success - and of loss to the Wesleyan churches. His death, at his own home, 10 March 1838, aged 44, was a heavy blow to the seceders, who were already in financial difficulty. Their members gradually returned to the bosom of
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen - 1802) formed, in 1785, the Mona Mine Company to work the rich deposits of copper discovered on the eastern side of Parys Mountain, near Amlwch. Henry Bayly Paget died 13 March 1812, and was succeeded by his eldest son, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET (1768 - 1854), born 17 May 1768, who had a brilliant military career and was created 1st marquess of Anglesey 4 July 1815 as a reward for his prowess on the field
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian his History of … Gresford, and in 1906-10 his History of … Holt, both first published in serial form in Archæologia Cambrensis, to which, and its sister journals Y Cymmrodor and the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society, he made numerous other contributions, listed by R. G. Smallwood in Wrexham Advertiser, 13 March 1915; he also edited and placed in the local public library (1887) a collection of
PALMER, HENRY (1679 - 1742), Independent minister affect the district, Palmer again gave proof of his good will; Howel Harris stayed under his roof on the night of 10 March 1740; and Palmer was one of the signatories of a letter (Trevecka Letter 231) inviting Harris to return to the neighbourhood. Palmer died 12 December 1742. One of his sons, GEORGE PALMER (died 1750), became a minister at Swansea; another, JOHN PALMER, was for many a long year an
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Ednywain Bendew, and Margaret Griffith was a great-grand-daughter of John Jones (c. 1578 - 1658) of Gellilyfdy. Paul Panton was educated at Westminster School (from 1739 to 1740), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (from 25 June 1744). He matriculated in 1746, and had been admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 21 December 1744. Called to the Bar, 14 November 1749, he practised for some time. He married, 1 March 1756, Jane
PARCELL, GEORGE HENRY (1895 - 1967), musician and anthems in four-part harmony. One cannot consider church music in Wales without being reminded of the contribution which he and others like him have made. In this context he represents a generation of benefactors whose importance cannot be exaggerated. He married Irene Ackerman, 26 December 1929; died 8 March 1967 and was cremated in Morriston.

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