Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, Baron LEWIS (d. 1555), judge , 1639 - 1700). The second son, HUGH LEWIS OWEN of Cae'rberllan, Dolgelley, a lawyer, would appear to have been the ancestor of the Tan-y-gadair family (see Henry Owen, 1716 - 1795), but the pedigrees are inconclusive on this point. The third son, EDWARD OWEN of Hengwrt (Griffith, op. cit. 201), was the grandfather of the antiquary Robert Vaughan and the ancestor of the later Hengwrt and Nannau
OWEN, MATTHEW (1631 - 1679) Llangar, Edeirnion, poet poem to Richard Hughes, vicar of Gwytherin (a living which he held from 1660-74). In a late manuscript of the latter (NLW MS 668C), the poet is called 'Mathew Goch, alias Owen.' Matthew Owen was a keen Anglican, and turned in the same circle as Huw Morys and Edward Morris. He was a competent composer of englynion, and one englyn of his, viz. 'Aneddfawr santaidd noddfa…' can be seen above the church
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen inhabitants of both counties benefited by his patronage. Of his six brothers, two were successively Members of Parliament for the Caernarvon boroughs : Sir EDWARD PAGET (1775 - 1849) from 1796 to 1806 and Sir CHARLES PAGET (1778 - 1839) from 1806 to 1826 and 1831 to 1834, when the family lost the seat for the first time in forty-four years. Two other brothers sat for Anglesey : WILLIAM PAGET (1769 - 1794
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist Mary Primrose (1919-2005), Lady Katharine Mary Veronica (born 1922). The family seat was at Plas Newydd in Anglesey. He was educated at Wixenford School and Eton College. He married Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan (born 1924) on 16 October 1948, and they had two sons, Charles Alexander Vaughan, 8th Marquess (born 1950) and Lord Rupert Edward Llewellyn (born 1957), and three daughters, Lady Henrietta
PAINTER family, printers the business to Railton Potter in 1855. Thomas Painter died 16 January 1889, aged 82. The three Painters were skilled printers. It was the father who printed Philip Yorke's Royal Tribes of Wales, 1799, and Edward Edwards's edition of Browne Willis, Survey of the Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 1801. The largest work undertaken in the office was John Humphreys's translation, published 1813, of Samuel
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian aim) at least of Wrexham and its environs. In 1885 he published an essay on The History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales, intended as an introductory study, but believed by him (and by other scholars, including Frederic Seebohm, who became his warm admirer) to be his best work. It was expanded and republished in 1910 with the collaboration of Edward Owen of the India Office
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Born 4 May 1727, elder son of Paul Patton (died 1752) of Bagillt, Flintshire, and his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Edward Griffith of the same. This branch of the Patton (or Panton) family resided at Coleshill, but they traced their ancestry through the Pantons of Plas Panton (purchased by Paul Panton, junior, in 1811) to Marchweithian. The Griffith family of Bagillt descended from
PARKER, JOHN (1798 - 1860), cleric and artist Born 3 October 1798, second son of Thomas Netherton Parker, of Sweeney Hall, Oswestry, by his wife, Sarah Browne (heiress to her uncle, Edward Browne, Sweeney Hall). Educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford (B.A. 1820, M.A. 1825), he became curate of Moreton Chapel, near Oswestry, for a short while before he became rector of Llanmerewig, Montgomeryshire, and, from 1844, vicar of Llanyblodwel
PARR-DAVIES, HARRY (1914 - 1955), pianist and composer , and Sir Henry Walford Davies urged him to make a career as a classical composer; but light music was more to his taste and he studied the works of Eric Coates and Edward German to perfect his technique. He introduced himself to the singer Gracie Fields and became her accompanist in Britain and on tour in Canada and South Africa. He composed the song ' Sing as we go ' which Gracie Fields sang in the
PARROTT, HORACE IAN (1916 - 2012), teacher and composer honours, including the Harriet Cohen Musicology Medal in 1966. He also wrote works on music appreciation for young people: Pathways to Modern Music (1947) and A Guide to Musical Thought (1949); a volume, The Spiritual Pilgrims, on musical life at Gregynog in the days of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, and studies of the composers Edward Elgar, Peter Warlock and Cyril Scott. An autobiography
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Welsh historiography at one point. Sir Edward Stradling, on William Cecil's suggestion, had written a tractate on the Norman conquest of Glamorgan, and had sent it to Cecil. It is clear that Cecil passed it on to Blanche Parry - perhaps for the queen, for Blanche kept the queen's books. But when David Powel was in London, probably to see about printing his Historie, Blanche Parry handed Stradling's
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Ewyas Lacy under Sir William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (1st creation) and a supporter of the Duke of York and Edward IV. Blanche's paternal grandparents were Miles ap Harry who married Joan, a daughter of Sir Harry Stradling of St. Donat's, Glamorganshire; Joan's mother was sister to Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, with descent from Sir Dafydd Gam. (In 1811 stained-glass windows commemorating

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