Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, Sir ARTHUR DAVID KEMP (1904 - 1970), international administrator Born 26 November 1904, the eldest son of Edward Owen, minister of Crane Street church (B), Pontypool, Monmouthshire, who some months previously had moved from Bethel church (B), Tonypandy, and his wife Gertrude Louisa, daughter of Thomas Henry Kemp. (He had been a notable schoolmaster in Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, from 1865 to 1892 and a master in the Normal department of the University College
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet medal for his awdl on the Isle of Britain, and in 1811 he won the prize at Tremadoc eisteddfod for his awdl on agriculture. His masterpiece, which caused a great deal of controversy, was his awdl ' Elusengarwch ' ('Charity'), which he entered for the Denbigh eisteddfod in 1819, when the award was made to Edward Hughes ('Y Dryw,' 1772 - 1850), vicar of Bodfari. Dewi and his friends regarded this as a
OWEN, EDWARD (1728/9 - 1807), cleric and schoolmaster
OWEN, EDWARD (1853 - 1943), journalist, barrister, and antiquary Born at Menai Bridge, Anglesey, 9 March 1853, only son of Edward and Sarah Owen, a former deputy chief constable of Anglesey, he was educated locally, and at a private seminary in Dublin. He was the first Welshman to enter the Civil Service by public examination and was appointed to the India Office c. 1873, where he remained until his retirement in 1913. During his stay of over sixty years in
OWEN, EDWARD HUMPHREY (1850 - 1904) Tŷ Coch,, book-collector and local historian
OWEN, EDWARD PRYCE (1788 - 1863), cleric and artist
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet 1737, to Friars school, Bangor. There, under the tuition of the headmaster, Edward Bennet, and his assistant, Humphrey Jones, he became a classical scholar. On 20 September 1741 he appealed to Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, one of the trustees of the Lewis Charity, for a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and on 3 June 1742 was accepted by that college as a servitor, being enrolled as a member of the
OWEN, HENRY (1844 - 1919), antiquary Pembrokeshire by R. Fenton, 1894; and A List of Printed Books treating of the County of Pembroke, 1897. With the assistance of scholars like Egerton Phillimore and Dr. E. A. Lewis, he edited Owen's Pembrokeshire, 1892 [-1936], and A Calendar of Public Records relating to Pembrokeshire, 1911-4. He collaborated with Edward Laws in the production of An Archaeological Survey of Pembrokeshire, 1896-1907 (Tenby
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' preacher of great serenity of temperament. Of his children his son JOHN OWEN became a preacher like his father - a young man of great promise, who died in 1700; his daughter Susannah married Edward Kenrick of Wrexham, a minister who supervised the Independents of Merioneth till his death in 1741; his daughter Mary was grandmother to the Rev. Hugh Farmer of Walthamstow who supplied many details about Hugh
OWEN, HUGH (1761 - 1827), cleric and local historian , and, finally, he succeeded J. B. Blakeway as minister of the royal peculiar of S. Mary's, Shrewsbury, 1826. He died at Shrewsbury 23 December 1827. His son, Edward Pryce Owen, is separately noticed.
OWEN, JOHN (Owain Alaw; 1821 - 1883), musician Born 14 November 1821 in Crane Street, Chester, the son of a captain Owen. After receiving a good education he was apprenticed to Messrs. Powell and Edwards, Cutlers, Chester. He was taught music first of all by Edward Peters of Chester, and later, by C. Lucas of London. When still quite young he became organist in the countess of Huntingdon chapel; he also became conductor of the 'Octagon
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander the royalist poet Huw Morys. His marriage with Mary, widow of bishop John Hanmer, producing no heir, his estate was reunited on his death with Clenennau, inherited by Sir John's son WILLIAM OWEN (1624 - 1677), who had been with his father at the siege of Bristol; married Katherine Anwyl of Park, Meironnydd, and lived during the Interregnum on the Anwyl estate of Llanddyn. His son, Sir ROBERT OWEN

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