Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor Born at Llanidloes in 1698, son of Pierce Owen; according to Foster, he matriculated (as ' John Owens ') from Jesus College, Oxford, on 21 March 1718/9, at 21, but Foster's conjecture that he graduated in 1722 as ' Joseph Owen ' is extremely improbable. Indeed, in A. Ivor Pryce's Diocese of Bangor during Three Centuries, John Owen is given no degree at all in 1723, but by 1742 he is styled LL.B
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander The eldest son of John Owen of Bodsilin, Walsingham's secretary, and of Elin (later lady Eure), granddaughter of Sir William Maurice. He was born in 1600 at Clenennau, near Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, his mother's home; married Janet, daughter of Griffith Vaughan of Cors-y-gedol, Meirionethshire, and had some military experience before succeeding to Clenennau on his mother's death in 1626 (N.L.W
OWEN, LEONARD (1890 - 1965), administrator in India, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Wales taxation records are at the University College of Bangor and the National Library of Wales. He also translated very many articles from Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 for inclusion in The Dictionary of Welsh biography down to 1940. He married in Bombay, India, in 1923, Dilys daughter of Joseph Davies Bryan, under BRYAN, ROBERT) and they had one son and one daughter. He died 4 November 1965 at
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, 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 religious and patriotic, by this author, are found in manuscripts in N.L.W. These include his 'Conversation with the fox, at Oxford,' and a pleasing song entitled 'Conversation with the moon, at Oxford'; in the latter the moon is bidden to address the people of Merioneth, and to contradict the false story that the poet is dead. He wrote an elegiac awdl to Sir John Owen, of Clenennau (died 1666), and a
OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist erected a monument in 1902. When the International Labour Office was founded in Geneva the gift of the people of Wales was appropriately a bust of Robert Owen by Sir William Goscombe John for the library. Robert Owen married Caroline Dale, daughter of David Dale of Glasgow. Their children settled in America, the eldest, ROBERT DALE OWEN (1801 - 1877) served as the representative of the United States at
OWEN, ROBERT (1858 - 1885), schoolmaster and poet Born 30 March 1858 at Tai Croesion, a small farm not far from Llanaber church, Merionethshire; son of Gruffydd Owen, boatman and farmer, and his wife Margaret. The particulars given here are taken from the biography written by (Sir) Owen M. Edwards for the selection made by him of the poems by Robert Owen, published in 1904 at Llanuwchllyn. When he was four years old, Robert Owen moved with his
OWEN, Sir ROBERT (1658 - 1698), politician - see OWEN, Sir JOHN
OWEN, ROBERT LLUGWY (1836 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and schoolmaster Born at Betws-y-coed in October 1836, son of Joseph Owen. He left Llanrwst British school at 14 to work in a Ffestiniog quarry. Having begun preaching in 1857, he went to the school at Clynnog, kept by Eben Fardd, and thence to a school at Dublin, where he became assistant. From 1860 till 1863 he was at Bala C.M. College, where he matriculated in London University. From 1863 till 1877 he was
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 (1750 - 1830), Evangelical cleric the successor of Thomas Charles 'of Bala ' at Sparkford and Milborne Port, Somerset; born in 1750, eldest son of Joseph Owen, freeholder of Fron-goch, Nevern, Pembrokeshire. He was ordained deacon on 15 August 1773 and priested on 6 August 1775. He was curate of his native parish of Nevern, 1775-9, of Sparkford, 1783-5, and of Milborne Port, 1785-91; later he became perpetual curate of Milborne

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