Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, OWEN JOHN (1867 - 1960) y Fenni, printer and publisher, choir conductor and eisteddfod compère Born 1867 at Dolgellau, son of Dafydd Owain, compositor and reader in the office of Y Dysgedydd and Y Dydd, and Margaret (née Vaughan). He served his apprenticeship in the same office before moving to Abergavenny in 1887 to work as a Welsh compositor in Henry Sergeant's press. He took an interest in music, having learnt the rudiments of sol-fa in the Sunday school in Yr Hen Gapel, Dolgellau
OWEN, WILLIAM (1785 - 1864), antiquary historian, he was nordinately credulous, a fact borne out by his surviving works: Drych Crefyddol yn dangos Dechreuad y Grefydd Brotestanaidd, etc., 1824; Hanes Cyflafan neu Ddinystr y Beirdd Cymreig, etc. (prize-winning essay at the Cymreigyddion eisteddfod held at Caernarvon, 1824); Y Drych Bradwriaethol, sef Hanes Brad y Cyllyll Hirion, 1825; Hanes Dechreuad Cenedl y Cymry, 1826; Hanes Owain Glandwr
OWENS, JOHNNY RICHARD (JOHNNY OWEN; 1956 - 1980), boxer brother Vivian, and his father became his trainer. By 1970 and 1973 he had won Welsh School championships; he represented Wales seventeen times, losing only twice. With all his successes as an amateur boxer, the time came for him to move on. When registering as a professional he was keen to use a Welsh form of his name, Sion Rhisiart Owain, but he was persuaded to adopt the name Johnny Owen because of
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Catholics, giving rise to a debate in the House of Commons, 1813. Like his father, he took a keen interest in Welsh studies and antiquities, though he understood little of the language. He lent Evan Evans's transcripts to Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) and William Owen Pughe for the publication of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, and the first volume, 1801, was dedicated to him. He was also a patron of David
PARRY, HUMPHREY (c. 1772 - 1809), schoolmaster, member of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies of London ., 1951, 121), though all four were members of both. There is every indication that Parry was the leader of opposition to Owain Myfyr and Pughe at Gwyneddigion meetings; he felt that Pughe (on the strength of Owain Myfyr's pocket, as he puts it) was getting too much of his own way - insisting on printing the Greal in his own peculiar orthography, excluding from it anything that was not in accord with
PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar Meirion Pennar, the eldest of the five children of W. T. Pennar Davies and his wife Rosmarie (née Wolff), was born in Cardiff 24 December 1944. Geraint, Hywel and Owain were his brothers, Rhiannon was his sister. His mother was born in Detmold, Germany but because of her Jewish ancestry, she was forced to flee from the family home in Berlin, where her father was a family doctor, before World War
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
PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian 1907 to 1951. There can be little doubt that his zeal and enthusiasm sustained the society and its journal. His own publications include: Select bibliography of Owain Glyndwr (1915), The romantic history of the monastic libraries of Wales (1912), Dr Griffith Roberts, Canon of Milan (1917), Lady Charlotte Guest and the Mabinogion (1921), The Celtic countries, their literary and library activities
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy , Corsygedol, who married Ann Nannau in 1649, and to other members of the Corsygedol family. Gruffydd Phylip wrote several poems to members of the family of Ellis of Ystumllyn and Bron-y-foel, Eifionydd, particularly to Owain Elis and to Marged Elis. Perhaps the most interesting of the Ystumllyn poems is the one in ballad form contained in Cardiff MS. 37 (see J. H. Davies, Caniadau yn y Mesurau Rhyddion
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian Bible in its own tongue. Yet he has no great love for the English people. If the Welsh fought with the English, 'is it not natural to defend your purse against robbers?' - and he expatiates upon the wrongs done by March lords and royal officials in Wales. He has little to say on behalf of Owain Glyn Dwr, 'who lived in a fool's paradise,' and whose claim to the princely title was 'altogether frivolous
POWEL, JOHN (d. 1767), weaver-poet ., these being ten cywyddau and one awdl. They include a poem on Christ's passion, one complaining of the contemporary neglect of old poetry, an elegy to a greyhound, poems addressed to Siôn ap Rhisiart of Bryniog, Ieuan Owain of Dyffryn Aur, Rhobert Burchinshaw, two to Ieuan Brydydd Hir, and one to Dafydd Jones, Trefriw, requesting a copy of Y Cydymaith Diddan. This last cywydd and the letter, written
PRYDYDD BYCHAN, Y (fl. 1220-1270) South Wales, a poet Over twenty series of englynion of his work are to be found in the Hendregadredd manuscript and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales. Most of these poems are in praise of descendants of the 'lord' Rhys, and minor rulers and court officials in Dyfed, Ystrad Tywi, and Ceredigion. References are made to fighting, particularly in Roose and around Pembroke. There is also a series of englynion to Owain

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