Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OSBWRN WYDDEL (fl. 1293), Irish nobleman and ancestor of landed families in Merioneth Decies and Desmond.' Gerald (Fitz Walter) de Windsor was constable of Pembroke castle - he was alive in 1108; his wife was Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. The well-known antiquary Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (see Peniarth MS 6) surmised that Osbwrn came to Wales c. 1237 but W. W. E. Wynne suggests a rather later period. There is evidence that he was taxed up to a fifteenth in the parish of Llanaber in
OWEN family Plas-du, Rome, dying there on 30 May 1618. He kept in touch with Welsh affairs and frequently used Welsh in his secret correspondence. Dying a bachelor, he disinherited his Protestant nephew, John Owen the epigrammatist, in favour of his Catholic nephew Charles Gwynne, who commemorated him in the mural inscription at the English College quoted in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1853, 130-1. ROBERT OWEN 1570), (fl
OWEN family Orielton, , and the Orielton candidate was several times defeated. Matters reached a climax in the Reform agitation. In May 1831 Sir John Owen, first baronet of the new creation, was opposed in the county by Robert Fulke Greville. Sir John was returned, but unseated on petition. In the following October he was returned by an increased majority. The expense was enormous and embarrassed both parties. Sir John
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet , named Gaerwen, at Pwllheli, and owing to his brother's ill-health, Dewi and his mother moved to Pwllheli in 1827. He still held the farm at Gaerwen, and when his brother died in 1837, he returned home, and remained there to the end of his days. His bardic tutor was Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), his neighbour, who lived at Betws Fawr, near Gaerwen. At the age of 21 Dewi won the Gwyneddigion
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet one of the secretaries of the Tremadoc eisteddfod in 1851. As a bard he was not as eminent as his contemporaries, Dewi Wyn and Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu); but he composed a number of short poems and englynion, and he wrote scores of epitaphs at the request of friends and neighbours. His poems and essays were published in a volume entitled Cell Meudwy by his friend Robert Isaac Jones
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist ('Twm Sion Cati'), and other antiquaries and genealogists of his day. He was the centre of a small group of writers in Pembrokeshire which included George Owen Harry, Robert Holland, and George William Griffith, and he gave his patronage and the hospitality of Henllys to many of the Welsh bards of the period. His most important work is ' The Description of Penbrockshire ' which appears to owe
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet Jones of Llanrwst published an edition of Goronwy Owen's works in 1860 with the title Gronoviana; the Rev. Robert Jones of Rotherhithe (1810 - 1879), another edition in 1876; and Isaac Foulkes, his Holl Waith Barddonol Goronwy Owen in 1878. Among later editions of Goronwy Owen's works are 'Cyfres y Fil,' 1902; Cywyddau Goronwy Owen, W. J. Gruffydd, 1907; Y Farn Fawr … a Dinistr Jerusalem; Clasuron
OWEN, GRIFFITH (1647 - 1717), Quaker and medical man son of Robert and Jane Owen, Dolserau, Dolgelley. He served as a medical man in Lancashire for some time before he emigrated in 1684, with his aged parents, to Pennsylvania, where he settled in Merion ('Welsh Tract'). He travelled much on behalf of his faith and it would seem that William Penn had a high opinion of him. He returned in 1695, in which year he published Our Ancient Testimony, to
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar ) of Beaumaris, and the essay was the work of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. Still, Owen certainly brought out the 2nd edition of Mona Antiqua Restaurata, by Henry Rowlands (1655 - 1723). He was a prominent Cymmrodor, and acted as reviser of the papers sent up to be read before the society. There is much talk of him in the Morris Letters. He was a neighbour and friend of Richard Morris's - not that this
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor , Meth. Trefaldwyn Uchaf, 41-2 and 64-5. Not unnaturally, Robert Jones of Rhos-lan, in his Drych yr Amseroedd (61-2, 77-8), while recognizing Owen's ability and his eloquent preaching, has much to say against him - not that we need swallow all the old chronicler's stories of the divine punishments which fell upon the chancellor. Yet, on the other hand, we cannot ignore the judgement pronounced upon him
OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture Born 1 August 1807 at Gwindy, Llecheiddior, Eifionydd, son of William Owen and his wife Margaret, who was a niece of Robert Jones (1745-1829) of Rhos-lan. He was an early and a wide reader, and as a youth wrote in Seren Gomer on behalf of Catholic Emancipation. He went to several schools, including that kept by Evan Richardson and a school at Chester where Glan Alun (Thomas Jones, 1811 - 1866
OWEN, JOHN (1564? - 1628?), epigrammatist published between 1606 and 1613, nothing is known of his life after 1595. He may have given up his post to live on patronage. But, as no other headmaster is known at Warwick until 1628? he may have taught there to his death in that year and Wood's statement that he died in 1622 may be doubted. His patrons included lady Arabella Stuart, the prince of Wales, and Robert Cecil. His epigrams were best sellers

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