The only daughter of J. R. Ormsby-Gore (1816 - 1876), 1st baron Harlech. She was first married in 1863 to the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon (died 1865); their son, Lloyd, succeeded his grandfather in 1869 as 4th baron Kenyon. Her second marriage in 1880 was to the Reverend Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley-Owen, of Tedsmore, West Felton (died 1910).
Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen took an active interest in Welsh cultural movements and received the bardic title of Gwenrhian Gwynedd. In 1927 she published a history of the parish of Selattyn (Oswestry, n.d.) which includes the Ormsby-Gore seat of Brogyntyn. She also supplied the Welsh Land Commission in 1894 with a detailed memorandum on the history of Maelor Saesneg. She died 25 November 1927 at Shrewsbury.
Published date: 1959
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