Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, LEWIS (1572 - 1629?), anti-Romanist propagandist The Unmasking of all Popish Monks, etc., 1628, dedicated to Sir John Lloyd of Aberllefenni and Ceiswyn, and Speculum Jesuiticum, 1629. W. Llewelyn Williams says that he died in 1629.
OWEN, MARY (1796 - 1875), hymn-writer Born at Ynys-y-maerdy, Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire, daughter of David and Mary Rees. Her father was a deacon in Maes-yr-haf chapel, Neath. Religious meetings were held in her home and she began to write hymns. She was persuaded by William Williams (Caledfryn) to publish a selection Hymnau ar Amryw Destunau (1839), reprinted 1840, 1841, 1842. Among the hundred or more which she wrote are those
OWEN, MORFYDD LLWYN (1891 - 1918), composer, singer, and pianist Born 1 October 1891 at Treforest, Glamorganshire, daughter of William and Sarah Jane Owen. Her parents were very musical, her mother being a singer and pianist of more than average ability. She was educated at Pontypridd county school; University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (holder of the Caradog Music Scholarship, 1909-12, Mus. Bac. 1912). She had a distinguished career at the Royal
OWEN, OWEN (1806 - 1874), divine and physician Born in 1806 at Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, according to Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies, 218, but at Bancyfelin, Carmarthenshire, according to Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 58. Educated for the Independent ministry at Carmarthen (perhaps c. 1830) and Highbury colleges, he held pastorates at Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, and Liskeard, Cornwall. In 1849 he undertook the pastorate of Mill
OWEN, RICHARD JONES (Glaslyn; 1831 - 1909), poet and prose-writer literary world. He was responsible for the words and music of many religious songs which he sang and made popular during the 1904-5 revival. He married Elizabeth Trefor, daughter of William and Jane Trefor, of Llanberis; there were six children of the marriage.
OWEN, ROBERT (1834 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born in 1834, son of Robert Owen of Neuadd Ddu, Blaenau Ffestiniog; his mother being of the Tyddynllwyn family, Llanfrothen. After having been at Bala C.M. College (1857-61) he won the Dr. Williams scholarship at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated in 1865. He was minister of the churches at Pennal and Maethlon, Meironnydd (1865-99). He was a capable writer and historian and published a
OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist Born at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 14 May 1771, his father, Robert Owen, was a saddler and ironmonger in the town, and his mother the daughter of a local farmer named Williams. His only formal education was what he received before he was 10 when he left home to serve four years' apprenticeship to a Scottish draper, James McGuffog, at Stamford, Lines. After a short time as a draper's assistant in
OWEN, ROBERT (1885 - 1962), historian, bookworm and genealogist Born at Pen-y-parc (Twllwenci, colloquially), Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, 8 May 1885 [the son of Jane Owen, according to NLW MS 19295B] and brought up by his grandmother, Ann Owen, daughter of a weaver of Aberffraw, Anglesey. He left Llanfrothen elementary school at the age of 13 to work on the home-farm of Brondanw mansion. He worked for three years on farms in the district before being
OWEN, ROBERT (d. 1685), Quaker for five and a half years. He emigrated in 1684 to Pennsylvania, with his wife (and kinswoman) Jane, daughter of the antiquary Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, and all their children, except Robert, the eldest. They reached Philadelphia 17 September 1684, but Owen and his wife died in a few months (not, as is sometimes said, in 1697); for their children and descendants, see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 201
OWEN, WILLIAM (fl. c. 1486-1574), lawyer son of Rhys ab Owen of Henllys, Pembrokeshire, and Jane, daughter of Owen Ellyott, of Earwere, in the same county, and father of George Owen of Henllys. He was a near cousin of Sir Thomas Elyot. After a suit lasting nineteen years he successfully established his claim to the barony of Kemes (Cemais) in Pembrokeshire. He was a member of the Middle Temple and shared chambers with Sir Anthony
OWEN, WILLIAM (William Owen; 1813 - 1893) Prysgol,, musician Born 12? December 1813 in Lônpopty, Bangor, the son of William and Ellen Owen. The father was a quarryman at Cae Braich-y-cafn quarry, Bethesda, and the son began to work in the same quarry when he was ten years old. He learnt music at classes held by Robert Williams (Cae Aseth), at Carneddi, and from William Roberts, Tyn-y-maes, the composer of the hymn-tune ' Andalusia.' He wrote his first hymn
OWEN, WILLIAM DAVID (1874 - 1925), lawyer and journalist Born 21 October 1874 at Tŷ Franan, Bodedern, Anglesey, son of William and Jane Owen. He became pupil-teacher at the village school, and afterwards, under L. D. Jones, at Garth, Bangor, and passed through Bangor Normal College. For some time he was a school teacher, but afterwards became a journalist. He was subsequently called to the Bar, but ultimately returned to Anglesey to practise as a

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