Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN family Peniarth, to Edward Breese, Kalendars of Gwynedd, and to S. R. Meyrick's edition of Dwnn's Heraldic Visitations and (b) in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 323. What follows here is, therefore, but a summary. The family traced its descent from Ednowain ap Bradwen down to a LLYWELYN who did homage for his land to Edward I. Llywelyn's son, EDNYFED, married GWENLLIAN, daughter and co-heiress of Gruffydd ab Adda ap
OWEN family Orielton, Cynddelw, said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd; Elizabeth Wirriot was the daughter and sole heiress of George Wirriot and his wife Jane, daughter of John Philipps of Picton castle. (The Wirriot family had been settled in Pembrokeshire since the 12th century; Giraldus Gambrensis mentions a Stephen of that name. A David Wirriot of the barony of Pembroke was one of the twelve jurors for the subsidy of
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet Gerallt Lloyd Owen was born at Tŷ Uchaf, a farm in the parish of Llandderfel, Meirionethshire, on 6 November 1944, the second son of Henry Lloyd Owen (1906-1982), farmer and Pest Officer for Merioneth and Gwynedd, and Jane Ellen (Jin, 1905-1989), a teacher who also kept the village shop and post office at her original home, Broncaereini in Sarnau after the family had moved there in 1945 following
OWEN, Sir GORONWY (1881 - 1963), politician and later for Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire. He was also chairman of the Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association in Anglesey and Caernarfonshire. He acted, too, as his county's Army Welfare Officer. Owen was vice-chairman, 1954-55, and chairman, 1955-56, of the Gwynedd Police Authority, and the High Sheriff of Caernarfonshire in 1950-51. He was chosen J.P. for the county. He wrote a large
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander . Brogyntyn 3/46). He was sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1630-31 and of Merioneth next year, and when the Civil War broke out he was put on the commission of array for Caernarvonshire (10 August 1642) and commissioned by Charles to raise and equip from county funds a regiment from the three shires of Gwynedd. Hampered by opposition from a few neighbouring families, he was not able to put his recruits into
OWEN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Alaw;; 1762 - 1853), farmer who lived for a long time at Chwaen Wen, Llannerch-y-medd. He wrote to the periodicals, more especially to Goleuad Gwynedd and Goleuad Cymru, and in 1813 published a little book of verse Lloffion o Faes Boaz (this should not be confused with a booklet bearing the same title by Robert Thomas, 1796 - 1866); a stanza in this book has become a well-known hymn which appears in our modern hymnaries.
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist -Lieutenant there (1960-83) and Lord Lieutenant of Gwynedd (1983-89). He was heavily involved in the long-running Public Inquiry (1975-76) into the River Conwy crossing. His assiduous attendance and concern has often been seen as having 'saved' the town and its castle. He chaired the Historic Buildings Council for Wales (1977-92) and was the founding President of the Friends of Friendless Churches (1966-84
PARRY, JOHN (1775 - 1846), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and editor devising the Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith (1823) as well as the Constitutional Deed of the C.M. Connexion. After establishing his own press in 1818, he started a monthly magazine, Goleuad Gwynedd. Three years later, by public request, this became an undenominational publication and its name was changed to Goleuad Cymru; it was sold at 4d. a copy. In 1830 there was a general desire for
PEIRIANYDD GWYNEDD - see DAVIES, JOHN
PENCERDD GWYNEDD - see ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY
PERYF ap CEDIFOR WYDDEL (fl. 1170), poet He was one of eight brothers at least, seven of whom were foster-brothers of Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd. When Hywel was slain at Pentraeth, Anglesey (1170), in battle against his half-brothers, Dafydd and Rhodri, the sons of Christina, the seven stood by him. Some of them were also slain, and three only of them escaped injury. Ithel, the other brother, had already been killed at Rhuddlan, at an
PHYLIP BRYDYDD (fl. 1222), court poet compositions reveal his pride in the noble tradition of the leading court poets of Wales, which he claims can be traced back to the muse of Taliesin and the court of Maelgwn Gwynedd. They also reveal, however, that the guardians of this tradition were driven in the courts of South Wales, even as early as his day, to strive against the 'poetasters,' the 'unskilled dabblers' and 'vain bards' - a reference to

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