Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer this was his real intention or not (and Owen was plainly doubtful of his allegiance), he achieved that purpose, and for some years lived, under Charlton's protection, as a poor chaplain at Welshpool. It was not until March 1411 that a full royal pardon gave him freedom once more, and enabled him to rebuild his broken fortunes. But his heyday was over, and he spent the rest of his life in comparative
ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine the movement in Wales, and his biographer, E. Keri Evans, maintains that 'the theologian of the future will give him a prominent and, it may well be, a pre-eminent, place in the development of Welsh theology which occurred at the end of the last century.' The two outstanding features of his early ministry were his efforts to promote temperance and his invaluable services as a catechist in the Sunday
ALLEN, EVAN OWEN (1805 - 1852), writer
ANDREWS, JOSHUA (c.1708 - 1793), Baptist minister Nothing is known of his beginnings, but in 1732 or 1733 he became a member of Pen-y-garn congregation, under Miles Harry. In 1736, he went to Bristol Academy; he was one of six Welshmen there, another being Caleb Evans. He returned to serve as a lay preacher at Pen-y-garn; and about 1740 was ordained to assist Harry, with special charge of the cause at Usk; but he was not a man of popular gifts
ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen betrothal of the majority of their children to the heirs and heiresses of the neighbouring families, LEWIS ANWYL, their eldest son, died in 1641, during his shrievalty, leaving an only daughter, Catherine, who married William Owen of Brogyntyn (see the article ' Wynn and Owen, Clenennau and Brogyntyn '). RICHARD ANWYL, the youngest son, high sheriff of Merioneth, 1658 and 1659, and nominated Knight of the
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Libraries chaired by the College Principal, Dr. Thomas Parry. The Librarian's last words to the Governors in September 1967 were: 'Given propitious circumstances, including universal acceptance of the urgency of the case, it is hoped that the middle years of the quinquennium may yet see the foundation of a new library laid.' Arthur ap Gwynn lived to see the opening of the Hugh Owen Library 1 September
AP ROGER, OWEN - see ROGERS, OWEN
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist council and vice-president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. He married in 1893, Margaret Elizabeth (died May 1943), elder daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, London, and Plas Dinas, Caernarfon, and they had one son (Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones whose son, Lord Snowdon, married Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II), and two daughters. He died 31 January 1943.
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, (27 March 1678). The charges were examined by a committee presided over by Sir John Trevor (1637 - 1717), which produced a full report resulting in the dispersal of the Jesuit house at Cwm, Herefordshire, and the executions of Frs. David Lewis, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, and others. Although a conforming Anglican, he worked in association with prominent local Dissenters like Samuel Jones, with whom
ASHBY, ARTHUR WILFRED (1886 - 1953), agricultural economist initiative was responsible for bringing the agriculture of the lowlands of Wales (and the whole of the United Kingdom for that matter) out of poverty from 1933 onwards. He contributed numerous articles on his subject to many journals, and his book (with Ifor L. Evans, 1897 - 1952) in 1943, The Agriculture of Wales and Monmouth, is a mine of information on agricultural history for the period 1867 to 1939
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author The date of his birth is unknown. He would seem to have been a Wrexham man; the Presbyterian Fund Board, when making him a grant in 1690, describes him as 'Mr. Tho. Baddie of Wrexham' (Nicholson and Axon, The Older Nonconformity in Kendal, 579); and he had a brother, Owen Baddy, who was a schoolmaster at Wrexham (Palmer, The Older Nonconformity of Wrexham, 69 n.); the name is said to be a
BARLOW, Sir WILLIAM OWEN Orielton (d. 1851) - see OWEN

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