Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario David Ormsby-Gore was born in London on 20 May 1918, the second son of William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore (1885-1964), fourth Baron Harlech, landowner and politician, and his wife Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred (née Gascoigne-Cecil, 1891-1980), a daughter of the fourth Marquess of Salisbury. His older brother and the barony of Harlech's heir presumptive, Owen Gerard Cecil Ormsby-Gore (1916-1935) died
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR (1885 - 1964), politician and banker
OSBWRN WYDDEL (fl. 1293), Irish nobleman and ancestor of landed families in Merioneth , spoken of as 'of Corsygedol.' The fullest account of Osbwrn is probably that given by W. W. E. Wynne in Pedigree of the Family of Wynne, of Peniarth in the County of Merioneth (London, 1872). A member of the influential family of the Geraldines, Osbwrn was considered by Sir William Betham, Ulster-king-at-Arms, to be the son of 'John Fitz Thomas Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald de Windsor the first Lord of
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1236), prince of Deheubarth joint heir with Rhys Ieuanc of Gruffydd, eldest son of the 'lord' Rhys. His mother was Matilda, daughter of William de Breos. Though at times temporarily in opposition to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, he and his brother found in the prince of Gwynedd a powerful patron and defender against their uncles - Rhys Gryg and Maelgwn. Originally endowed with land in Cantref Bychan, the re-division of the 'lord
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Grandfather of Henry VII, son of Maredudd ap 'Sir' Tudur ap Goronwy Fychan (see under Ednyfed Fychan) by Margaret, daughter of Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd. The circumstances surrounding the early part of his life are very obscure, but it is certain that as a young man he became a servant in the household of Henry V, possibly through the influence of his courtier kinsman, Maredudd ab Owain Glyn
OWEN family Cefn-hafodau, Glangynwydd, Glansevern, Llangurig Wrangler in 1777 and won the principal Smith Prize in the same year. He gained his M.A. degree in 1780, and became a Fellow of his college. He took orders, but afterwards settled in New Brunswick, where he died, unmarried, on 10 December 1829. (c) WILLIAM OWEN (1758 - 1837), He. was bapt. 22 August 1758 in Berriew church. He was educated at Warrington under his uncle Edward (2, below), went to Jesus
OWEN family Plas-du, pressure of creditors, e.g. Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631) and Sir William Maurice. Thomas Owen's third son was JOHN OWEN (died 1622), the epigrammatist. HUGH OWEN (1538 - 1618), Roman Catholic conspirator Religion, was a younger son of Owen ap Gruffydd, educated at Lincoln's Inn (21 April 1556), and employed in the household of Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel and lord of Oswestry, whom he
OWEN family Peniarth, As is shown in the article on the Wynne family of Peniarth, the Peniarth property came into Wynne hands by the marriage, in 1771, of a Peniarth heiress, Jane viscountess-dowager Bulkeley, eldest daughter of Lewis Owen, Peniarth, with William Wynne of Wern, Caernarfonshire Particulars about the family living in Peniarth before the time of this marriage are given (a) by W. W. E. Wynne in his notes
OWEN family Orielton, 1292). Hugh Owen was called to the Bar from Gray's Inn and joined the Carmarthen circuit of the Great Sessions. In 1574 he was appointed recorder of Carmarthen. He served as sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1583 and of Anglesey in 1608, and was knighted. Sir Hugh Owen divided his estates, giving his Pembrokeshire property to his eldest son, JOHN OWEN, and his Anglesey property to his second son, WILLIAM
OWEN, - see MAURICE
OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda Born 23 July 1792 in London, son of William Owen Pughe by his wife (Sarah) Elizabeth. The family moved, whilst Aneurin Owen was still a child of about 8, to the parish of Nantglyn, Denbighshire, where the father had recently been left a small estate (together with property in Merioneth) by a relative, the Rev. Rice Pughe. Though Aneurin Owen was sent to Friars School, Bangor, he received most of
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet misjudgement; he became embittered, and in letters to friends and in satire he fiercely attacked the two adjudicators, William Owen Pughe and Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn). He was now sorely offended and composed but little afterwards. He was a master of the strict metres in Welsh, and wrote some excellent englynion; amongst the best are the series on the Menai Suspension Bridge, which were written in 1832

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