Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, NICHOLAS (1752 - 1811), cleric and antiquary Born 2 January 1752 at Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, second son of Nicholas Owen (died 17 August 1785), a graduate (1740) of Jesus College, Oxford, rector of Llansadwrn 1747-50, and of Llandyfrydog with Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd 1750-85. The family was of Pencraig, Llangefni; J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 51) gives a table, which can be augmented from Bangor MSS. 4602-7 at U.C.N.W. According to Nicholas
OWEN, OWEN GRIFFITH (Alafon; 1847 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet Born 8 November 1847 at Pant Glas, Eifionydd, where his father kept the inn. He had little early education and as a child he worked for a time on a farm. When about 12 years old he went to live with an aunt in the Carmel district of Caernarvonshire and worked in the Dorothea quarry, Tal-y-sarn. He was afterwards a clerk in the Braich quarry, Upper Llandwrog. He began to write verse at an early
OWEN, ROBERT (d. 1685), Quaker . Robert Owen had been very closely associated with the regicide John Jones (1597? - 1660). A letter to Morgan Llwyd from John Jones in 1651 (NLW MS 11440D, folio 43), partly printed in Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd, ii, 291-2, hints that Owen was lacking in 'discretion and Christian prudence', and that his severity was apt to drive people into hypocritical support of the regime - and further, that it would be
OWEN, ROBERT (Eryron Gwyllt Walia; 1803 - 1870), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet received a better education than was customary in those days, and was later apprenticed to a house-painter; he continued to work as a painter until he retired some five years before his death. While he was still a boy at Caernarvon he experienced the emotions of the Beddgelert revival (1817-8) and John Elias made a profound impression on his mind. About the same time he began to take an interest in
OWEN, ROBERT (1834 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author number of books, such as Hanes Methodistiaeth Gorllewin Meirionydd (two vols.), 1888; Ysgolfeistriaid Mr. Charles; Cofiant Dafydd Rolant, Pennal; Cofiant y Parch. Griffith Williams, Talsarnau. He died 8 November 1899.
OWEN, ROBERT (1885 - 1962), historian, bookworm and genealogist Born at Pen-y-parc (Twllwenci, colloquially), Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, 8 May 1885 [the son of Jane Owen, according to NLW MS 19295B] and brought up by his grandmother, Ann Owen, daughter of a weaver of Aberffraw, Anglesey. He left Llanfrothen elementary school at the age of 13 to work on the home-farm of Brondanw mansion. He worked for three years on farms in the district before being
OWEN, WILLIAM (1830 - 1865), musician ' Porthmadog ' appeared in Caniadau y Cysegr a'r Teulu, 1865. He died 2 August 1865, and was buried in Penmorfa churchyard.
OWEN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren;; 1788 - 1838), schoolmaster and musician exposition of the art of congregational singing and a collection of hymn-tunes; this book was dedicated to John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), incumbent of Kerry, Montgomeryshire. He died 8 October 1838, and was buried at Newtown.
OWEN, WILLIAM HUGH (1886 - 1957), civil servant of Shipping. He played hockey for Wales against Ireland in 1910. He married 8 October 1919, Enid Strathearn, daughter of Sir John Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Ontario, and they had three daughters. He made his home at Montreal and died 21 February 1957.
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist Henry Anglesey was born in London on 8 October 1922, the only son of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey (1885-1947), soldier and courtier, and his wife Lady Victoria Marjorie Harriet (née Manners, 1883-1946). He had five sisters: Lady Alexandra Mary Cecilia Caroline (1913-1973), Lady Elizabeth Hester Mary (1916-1980), Lady Mary Patricia Beatrice Rose (1918-1996), Lady Rose
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian Son of Alfred Palmer, coachbuilder, of Thetford, and of Harriet Catherine, daughter of John Neobard, wine merchant; born 10 July 1847 in a part of Thetford then attached to Suffolk, now in Norfolk, he attended the local grammar school (1855-60) and a private academy kept by Morgan Lloyd, an Independent minister who awoke his interest in natural science (1860-2). After a brief trial as pupil
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary December 1787, the manuscripts came to his hands. His wife died 21 June 1764, and was buried at Pentraeth. They had four children - Jane (born 7 April 1757), Paul (born 8 March 1758), Jones (born 14 August 1761), and Elizabeth Maria (born 2 December 1763). He married secondly (6 June 1770) Martha Kirk, a widow, of Chester (who died at Holywell, 27 July 1814, aged 82), and had two sons, Thomas (born 1771

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