Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN family Orielton, direct line of the Owen family of Orielton. The 6th baronet had bequeathed his property to John Lord, son of Joseph Lord and his wife Corbetta, who was the daughter of lt.-general John Owen, second son of Sir Arthur Owen, the 3rd baronet. He took the name of Owen and was created a baronet in 1813 - Sir JOHN (LORD) OWEN. The original baronetcy remained in the male line and became extinct on the death of
OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda ; Comprising the Laws … by Howel the Good and Anomalous Laws … with an English Translation (London, for the commissioners on Public Records, 1841, two vols.). As Sir John E. Lloyd, the writer of the account of Owen in the D.N.B., points out, the work was remarkable not only for the care and accuracy with which the manuscripts were reproduced but also as distinguishing for the first time the three versions
OWEN, Sir ARTHUR DAVID KEMP (1904 - 1970), international administrator he became personal assistant to Sir Stafford Cripps in the office of the Lord Privy Seal and later in the Ministry of Aircraft Production. He was a member of the Cripps mission to India in 1942, and of the Reconstruction Department of the Foreign Office in charge of League of Nations affairs, 1944-45. He was a member of the U.K. Delegation at the International Labour Conferences held in
OWEN, Sir DAVID JOHN (1874 - 1941), docks manager
OWEN, EDWARD HUMPHREY (1850 - 1904) Tŷ Coch,, book-collector and local historian Annual Report of the National Library for the years 1909-10. The manuscripts, now NLW MS 815-68, are described in N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., i, 61-7; they include several volumes containing pedigrees and poems, seven volumes from the library of Sir Richard Colt Hoare; two volumes compiled by William Williams, Llandygài; and volumes which had belonged previously to Jonathan Jones, surveyor of taxes
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist Born c. 1552 at Henllys, in the parish of Nevern, north Pembrokeshire, the eldest son of William Owen (c. 1486 - 1574), a successful lawyer who purchased the barony of Cemais of John Tuchet, lord Audley, in 1543, and became lord of Cemais. George Owen's mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea, brother to William, first earl of Pembroke of the Herbert line (second creation
OWEN, Sir GORONWY (1881 - 1963), politician
OWEN, GWILYM (1880 - 1940), physicist research work under Sir J. J. Thomson in the Cavendish laboratory; he graduated at Cambridge in 1905. He was then appointed lecturer in physics at Liverpool, remaining there till 1913, when he became professor at Auckland, New Zealand. He served with the New Zealand forces in the 1914-19 war; in 1919 he was appointed professor of physics at Aberystwyth. When principal Sir Henry Stuart Jones retired early
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar himself in Welsh antiquities, and in the Welsh manuscripts belonging to William Jones (1675? - 1749). True, Sir John Lloyd was convinced that the attribution to Owen of the 1775 History of Anglesea, including an essay on Owain Glyn Dŵr attributed to Thomas Ellis of Dolgelley (these attributions are made in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry), is erroneous - the History, says Sir John, was by John Thomas (1736 - 1769
OWEN, Sir HUGH (1804 - 1881), educationist knighted in August 1881, but died at Mentone, France, on 20 November, and was buried in Abney Park cemetery, London. He married Ann Wade, and his eldest son became Sir Hugh Owen, K.C.B., permanent secretary of the Local Government Board. There is a statue of Hugh Owen in Castle Square, Caernarvon.
OWEN, HUGH JOHN (1880 - 1961), solicitor, author and local historian on the Court of Governors of the National Library of Wales from 1934 until his death. He was a painstaking researcher and worked unceasingly on local records of all kinds, particularly on the records of the Merioneth quarter sessions court. He published five volumes: The Merioneth Volunteers and local militia during the Napoleonic Wars (1934); Echoes of old Merioneth (1944); Sir Love's adventures
OWEN, Sir (HERBERT) ISAMBARD (1850 - 1927), medical man, scholar, and architect of universities lecturer, dean and curator of the museum, and went so far as to draft proposals for founding a new medical university in London in protest against the slow, reactionary policy at the time, of the University of London. He became very friendly with Joseph Edwards the sculptor, and with prince Lucien Bonaparte; he was named as executor to the will by each of them. Very early he was deeply involved in the

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