Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor Shrewsbury, removing his academy thither - for accounts of the Academy, see his biography and McLachlan, English Education under the Test Acts, 81-2. He died 8 April 1706; he married three times. Although James Owen ranked as an Independent, he had leanings towards Presbyterianism, and he agreed with Richard Baxter in his low-Calvinist theology and in his moderation. His career is that of a definite
OWEN, JOHN (d. 1759), poet, harpist, letter-writer the litigation in which the latter was involved. A strained relationship developed between the two, however, and while in London John Owen associated with Richard Morris and assisted him in the preparation of Goronwy Owen's works for the press. About thirty of his letters survive in addition to some verse in the cywydd metre. In 1758 he was appointed clerk on a man-of-war, and he died of fever at
OWEN, JOHN JONES (1876 - 1947), musician Born 2 May 1876 at Bryncoed, Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, son of Hugh Owen and Mary his wife, and a brother of Richard G. Owen ('Pencerdd Llyfnwy'). He learnt to play the organ and the viola. He was conductor of the Nantlle Ladies Choir which took the prize at the Cardiff national eisteddfod of 1897. Appointed organist of Tal-y-sarn (CM) chapel, he succeeded his father as precentor there. Among
OWEN, MARGARET (Peggy; 1742 - 1816) friend of Hester Lynch Piozzi and Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the daughter of Lewys Owen (1696 - 1746), younger son of Sir Robert Owen of Porkington (Brogyntyn), Salop, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lyster of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, and Moynes Court, Monmouthshire. Her father, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, was rector of Barking, Essex (1735-46), and Wexham, Buckinghamshire (1742-6
OWEN, MATTHEW (1631 - 1679) Llangar, Edeirnion, poet Oxford, but his name does not appear in Foster or in Wood. His Carol o Gyngor was published in Oxford in 1658, and fifteen facsimile copies were reproduced in 1897 under the editorship of Richard Ellis. Poems by Owen are found in Carolau a dyrïau duwiol (1729 ed., 114), and in Blodeu-Gerdd Cymru (150, 288, 382). The last of these can be dated 1656 from internal evidence. Many other poems, mainly
OWEN, NICHOLAS (1752 - 1811), cleric and antiquary the younger, there were fourteen children (letter of 1785 in Bangor MS. 2408), but Bangor MS. 4607 has only thirteen, and Griffith only twelve - he omits Richard, born 22 May 1754. This Richard graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1778 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), was licensed as curate to his father in 1777 (A. Ivor Pryce, Diocese of Bangor during Three Centuries, 115), and died 26 August 1780
OWEN, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister British School, Llangefni. In 1863 he went to Bala C.M. College, but it was very difficult, if not impossible, for one who was already a regular peripatetic evangelist to make much progress as a student. When the good people of Ffestiniog arranged for the principal and the simple student to preach in the same meeting, Dr. Lewis Edwards banished from his mind all adverse criticism of Richard Owen. In
OWEN, RICHARD (fl. 1552), translator . Richard Owen's translation survives in Peniarth MS 403. The translator says in the opening words that he translated from the Latin of Vives - the original work was in Latin - and that the work was begun on the fifth day of December 1552. Vives dedicated the work to his countrywoman, Katherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII. The work became very popular, about forty editions being recorded in the 16th
OWEN, RICHARD - see OWEN, RICHARD JONES
OWEN, RICHARD GRIFFITH (Pencerdd Llyfnwy; 1869 - 1930), musician
OWEN, RICHARD JONES (Glaslyn; 1831 - 1909), poet and prose-writer
OWEN, RICHARD MORGAN (1877 - 1932), Wales and Swansea Rugby scrummage halfback Born 1877. Of small physique and looking prematurely old, Owen was extremely tough and on the Rugby field he had acquired a technique in passing the ball and a craft in his play around the scrummage never, perhaps, excelled. He was generally acclaimed a master of tactics, and with his club partner, Richard Jones, helped to make Swansea the outstanding club side in the season 1904-5. Owen, as

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