Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet 1737, to Friars school, Bangor. There, under the tuition of the headmaster, Edward Bennet, and his assistant, Humphrey Jones, he became a classical scholar. On 20 September 1741 he appealed to Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, one of the trustees of the Lewis Charity, for a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and on 3 June 1742 was accepted by that college as a servitor, being enrolled as a member of the
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, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' . About the same time Hugh Owen was busy distributing the books that were published by Thomas Gouge and the Welsh Trust; no less than twenty-four of these, the works of Charles Edwards for the most part, came to Llanegryn alone. His lot was a hard one, says the Nonconformist's Memorial, until the coming of the Toleration Act, though he was saved from the heaviest penalties by the influence of his many
OWEN, Sir HUGH (1804 - 1881), educationist Born 14 January 1804, at y Foel, Llangeinwen, Anglesey (almost opposite Caernarvon), eldest son of Owen Owen and Mary his wife (daughter of Owen Jones). He was educated at the school kept by Evan Richardson, in that town, and after a short time at home went to London, in March 1825, where he served as a clerk till his appointment to a clerkship in the Poor Law Commission on 22 February 1836. In
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian court of quarter sessions, 1768-88 (1924); Beaumaris bailiff's accounts, 1779-1805 (1929); a volume of Beaumaris borough records, 1694-1723 (1932) and the diary of Bulkeley, Dronwy (1937). He also edited Braslun o hanes Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Môn, 1880-1935 (1937); and, with Gwilym Peredur Jones, Caernarvon court rolls, 1361-1402 (1951), and he published the following books: The life and works of
OWEN, HUGH (1575? - 1642) Gwenynog,, translator that was about mid-summer 1624. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bulkeley of Groesfechan, by whom he had two sons and seven daughters. He was the uncle of William Griffith, D.C.L., chancellor of Bangor and St Asaph and of George Griffith, bishop of St Asaph. He is chiefly remembered as the author of Dilyniad Crist, the first translation into Welsh of Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christi
OWEN, IFAN (IEUAN) TUDUR (d. 1625?), a bard Living at Dugoed in the parish of Mallwyd, Meironnydd. (Some of his children were christened in Mallwyd church, 1575-84, and his wife, Elizabeth ych Thomas, was buried at Mallwyd in October 1609). William Maurice, Cefn-y-braich, Llansilin, says that part of Cwrtmawr MS 5B (i-ii) was written by the bard. Examples of his work survive in manuscripts. His will was proved at S. Asaph, 1625.
OWEN, Sir (HERBERT) ISAMBARD (1850 - 1927), medical man, scholar, and architect of universities words. He was invited to become principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire after the death of Viriamu Jones, and it was he (according to Sir Harry Reichel) who fathered the idea that the structure of the University College of North Wales should be adapted to the rocky ridges of Pen-rallt rather than that the ridges should be levelled to accommodate the building. In 1904 he
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor Born 1 November 1654 at Brynmeini, Aber-nant, Carmarthenshire, second son of John Owen. His mother, whose name is not known, was a niece of bishop Thomas Howell (1588 - 1646) and of the letter-writer James Howell; Bryn was her hereditament, owned by her grandfather Thomas Howell, vicar of Conwil Elvet and Aber-nant, and previously curate of Llangamarch; Anthony Wood was in error when he said that
OWEN, JEREMY (fl. 1704-1744), Presbyterian minister and writer was, however, a strong hyper-Calvinist and 'congregationalist' element at Henllan, led by Lewis Thomas of Bwlch-y-sais, another of the teaching elders. Repeated attempts by neighbouring ministers to compose their disputes (1707-9) ended in the expulsion of Lewis Thomas and his party, who founded a new congregation at Rhyd-y-ceisiaid. On D. J. Owen's death (7 October 1710), his son Jeremy, a young
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor remembered as an unremitting foe of Methodism. There is an angry letter by him in the Account of the Welch Charity Schools by John Evans of Eglwys Cymyn (1702 - 1782), which refers to a letter sent by Owen to Griffith Jones of Llanddowror himself, complaining bitterly of the 'Methodism' of the circulating schools. In 1741 he curtly refused Howel Harris's request for a circulating school at Llannor, and

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