Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party the ministry in 1918 and established himself as a dentist in Pontardawe. His wife, and later he himself, had been trained as dentists by a good friend, David Ernest Evans (1870-1956) of Mountain Ash who also trained their son, Islwyn ap Nicholas. The family moved to Aberystwyth in 1921 and he, his wife and son set up a dental practice in the town. He joined the Communist Party when it was formed in
NICHOLAS, WILLIAM RHYS (1914 - 1996), minister and hymnwriter prizewinning hymn text 'Tydi a wnaeth y wyrth, O Grist, Fab Duw', written for the Rhys Thomas James Eisteddfod at Lampeter in 1967, and sung to the tune 'Pantyfedwen' by M. Eddie Evans, is amongst the most popular of modern Welsh hymns. There are 23 of his hymn texts in the interdenominational collection, Caneuon Ffydd, published in 2001. Nicholas learnt much about hymns by serving as secretary to the Y
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet T. C. Evans (Cadrawd) thought that he was the man of the same name who was born in Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire, in 1705. According to Cadrawd, the older people spoke of him as one who had kept school in the parish. Iolo Morganwg listed him with the literary men who were self-educated. He lived afterwards in Ystradyfodwg and perhaps in Glyncorrwg and Cwm-gwrach. It is quite possible that he was an
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, opera singer Geraint Evans, comedian Harry Secombe, and broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. HTV delivered coverage of Prince Charles's investiture at Caernarfon in 1969. He was also involved in a number of cross-party organisations, like the charity, Shelter, he chaired the European Movement (1969-75), a National Committee for Electoral Reform, and was deputy chair of
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' the bondage of their English enemies.' The year 1402, spent mainly in campaigns along the eastern march, saw the capture of Reginald Grey (later ransomed for 10,000 marks) and Edmund Mortimer, a cadet of the family whose kinship to the late king, Richard II, was a standing threat to the survival of the reigning Lancastrians. Owain's alliance with Mortimer, cemented by marriage with his daughter
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Dwr. During her widowhood, the dowager-queen, Catherine of Valois, mother of the boy-king Henry VI, fell in love with her tall, attractive attendant, and though there is no record of the event, all the evidence points to a secret marriage between them in 1429. The children of this union were: (1) Edmund, earl of Richmond, father of Henry VII; (2) Jasper, earl of Pembroke; (3) Owen, a monk of
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet church Pentrefelin; and bards such as Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), David Owen (Dewi Wyn), and Morris Williams (Nicander), used to visit the society often. Ellis Owen was also regarded as a sound adjudicator, and he was co-adjudicator with Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) on the chair poem at the Gordofigion eisteddfod, Liverpool, 1840, when Eben Fardd won the prize for his awdl ' Job '; he was also
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet closing date. Had he done so the Eisteddfod would have received poems from four of the foremost strict metre poets in Wales, namely Alan Llwyd, Dic Jones, Donald Evans and Gerallt himself, which would have proved an additional headache to the adjudicators. The completed poem was published in his volume Cilmeri a Cherddi Eraill. In Swansea in 1982 he won again for his ode 'Cilmeri', about Llywelyn ap
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar Bevan and John Evans (1702 - 1782).
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor Dissenter, but here again he showed willingness to compromise where principle was not sacrificed - two of his best-known works are Moderation a Virtue, 1703, and Moderation still a Virtue, 1704, in defence of 'occasional conformity.' There is a list of his works in the D.N.B. He did not lose contact with Wales. It was he who furnished Edmund Calamy with particulars of the Welsh 'ejected ministers.' And he
OWEN, JOHN (1757 - 1829), writer on religious topics third in 1871). In 1797 he published Golygiadau ar Achosion ag Effeithiau'r Cyfnewidiad yn Ffrainc, a noteworthy manifesto of the Welsh Methodist attitude towards political problems (analysis in J. J. Evans, Dylanwad y Chwyldro Ffrengig, 169-70). To 1818 belongs his Golygiad ar Adfywiad Crefydd yn yr Eglwys Sefydledig yng Nghymru o ddeutu y flwyddyn 1737, a work occasioned by the death of John Evans
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor remembered as an unremitting foe of Methodism. There is an angry letter by him in the Account of the Welch Charity Schools by John Evans of Eglwys Cymyn (1702 - 1782), which refers to a letter sent by Owen to Griffith Jones of Llanddowror himself, complaining bitterly of the 'Methodism' of the circulating schools. In 1741 he curtly refused Howel Harris's request for a circulating school at Llannor, and

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