Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NICHOLL, JOHN (1797 - 1853) Commissioner, and a member of the Board of Trade in January 1846. Locally, he was a deputy-lieutenant and chairman of the Glamorgan quarter sessions. On 14 December 1821 he married Jane Harriet, second daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam. He had seven children, and was succeeded in the estate by his eldest son, John Cole Nicholl 1823-1894. He died in Rome on 27 January 1853. The Merthyr Mawr estate is
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (1844 - 1885), Independent minister Park cemetery. Although he only spent eighteen years in the ministry, the freshness of his genius made him one of the most popular preachers in his denomination. ' One rarely heard a preacher with a greater gift for sustaining the interest of his congregation,' says Dr. John Thomas. The prominent part he played in the ' battle of the constitutions ' (see under M. D. Jones) displeased several people
NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect Born at Leicester in 1871, son of Thomas and Fanny North. He was educated at Uppingham school and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. In 1897 he married Ida Maude Davies, and they had one daughter. Settling at Llanfairfechan he became interested in the old buildings of Snowdonia. He published The old churches of Arllechwedd, Bangor, 1906, The old cottages of Snowdonia (1908, jointly
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history century Nottage Court was mortgaged by the Loughers to a William Jones, an apothecary of Cardiff, but in 1777 this William Jones's grandson, Cradock Nowell (Knight, op. cit., 256) - either the father or the brother of Thomas Nowell - sold it back to the then owners of Tythegston, the Knight family. Newton church has a memorial tablet to the widow of some Cradock Nowell. It may be remembered that R. D
OLIVER(S), THOMAS (1725 - 1799), Wesleyan preacher
OLIVER, THOMAS - see OLIVERS, THOMAS
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario friendship, which Ormsby-Gore later referred to as a 'twenty-five year conversation' on politics and world affairs, the two remaining close friends as their careers developed, and Ormsby-Gore found himself in the USA on Foreign Office business. In 1940, he married his first wife Sylvia (1920-1967), the daughter of the late diplomat Hugh Lloyd Thomas. They had two sons, Julian and Francis, and three
OSBWRN WYDDEL (fl. 1293), Irish nobleman and ancestor of landed families in Merioneth , spoken of as 'of Corsygedol.' The fullest account of Osbwrn is probably that given by W. W. E. Wynne in Pedigree of the Family of Wynne, of Peniarth in the County of Merioneth (London, 1872). A member of the influential family of the Geraldines, Osbwrn was considered by Sir William Betham, Ulster-king-at-Arms, to be the son of 'John Fitz Thomas Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald de Windsor the first Lord of
OWAIN ap THOMAS ap RHODRI (d. 1378), soldier of fortune and pretender to the principality of Wales Son of Thomas ap Rhodri ap Gruffydd by one Cecilia - he was therefore a great-great-grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and a great-nephew of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Born c. 1330, probably on Thomas's estate of Tatsfield in Surrey, he appears to have entered the service of Philip VI of France while still quite young, and except for a brief interval of less than twelve months, spent the remainder of
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' Thomas ap Llywelyn ab Owen (her sister married Tudur ap Goronwy), Thomas being the representative in the senior line of the old royal family of Deheubarth. Helen transmitted this claim to her son, together with land in the Cardiganshire commotes of Gwynionydd and Iscoed Uch Hirwern. He had no close ties of blood with Gwynedd, though remoter links through marriage gave him descent from Owain Gwynedd and
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier was deprived of the custody of his children), was somehow bound up with his breach of a supposed statute of 1428, forbidding the marriage of a queen-dowager without official consent [but see Artemus-Jones, Without my Wig, chap. 3]. When Henry VI came of age, however, Owain was restored to favour, being at once made a royal pensionary and in time receiving grants of other offices of profit, including
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist interest in Urdd Gobaith Cymru in Caernarfon from the movement's early years, and it was he who took charge of its processions through the town on special occasions. He was an ardent supporter of the temperance cause as expounded by the Rechabites and Good Templars. He published a number of biographies: Fanny Jones (1907), Ieuan Twrog (1909), J.O. Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) (1912), T.E. Ellis (1916), Anthropos a

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