Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
OWEN, WILLIAM GRIFFITH (1857 - 1922), Baptist minister - see OWEN, OWEN GRIFFITH
OWEN, WILLIAM HENRY (1845? - 1868), organist - see OWEN, JOHN
OWEN, WILLIAM HUGH (1886 - 1957), civil servant
OWEN, WILLIAM RICHARD (1906 - 1982), pioneer of Welsh broadcasting 1900. He left the army to work as a guard on the Irish Mail, the train from Holyhead to Euston Station after meeting Margaret Ann Lewis. They were married at Holyhead in 1905, and had 3 children, William Richard, Ellen Mary (Elma) (1910-1999) and Mona (1923-2005). The family moved to Birkenhead about 1915 when W. R. was about 9 years old, before moving back to Bangor when he was about 18. He was
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen was he who was largely responsible for consolidating the social and political status of the family in Anglesey, and notably so at Caernarvon, where, by securing the constableship of the castle and the mayoralty in 1785, he was successful in undermining the long-established monopoly of the Glyn family of Glynllifon in the borough. It was he, too, who together with Thomas Williams of Llanidan (1737
PAMPLIN, WILLIAM (1806 - 1899), botanist
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary (1725 - 1764), daughter and heiress of William Jones (1688 - 1755), Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, recorder of Beaumaris. Her mother was heiress of the estates of Derwen, Denbighshire, and Llwyn-gwern, Llanuwchllyn, Merioneth. In addition to his public responsibilities in Anglesey as squire of Plas Gwyn, which he took in earnest, to the great delight of the Morris brothers, Paul Panton took a keen
PARKHOUSE, WILLIAM GILBERT ANTHONY (1925 - 2000), cricketer
PARROTT, HORACE IAN (1916 - 2012), teacher and composer a lecturer at Birmingham University, and in 1950 he succeeded to the Gregynog Chair of Music at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, a post he held until his retirement in 1983. He oversaw considerable growth in the Music Department, and among his pupils there were the composers William Mathias and David Harries. Ian Parrott took a lively interest in the musical traditions of his adoptive
PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn family descent - a great Churchman and benefactor of the church of Llanbedrog. It was his grandson, the third LOVE PARRY (1720 - 1778), who brought Madryn to the family, and moved there to live, by his marriage with Sidney, great-granddaughter of Jane, sister of Owen Hughes, the rich Beaumaris attorney who had bought Madryn from William Madryn, the last of the old family (see article Madryn). Their son
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Born in 1508 or 1507 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Dore valley, Ewias, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Parry and his wife Alice. The pedigree of this wide-branching family is given by Theophilus Jones in History of the County of Brecknock (3rd ed.), iv, 2-3. Guto'r Glyn sang (200-4 and 216-20 of the University of Wales edition of his poems) to 'Harri Ddu o Euas,' Blanche's great-grandfather; her

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