Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer during his lifetime. He married (1745) Jane, daughter and heiress of Robert Hughes of Llanfugail (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 41); she died 1 May 1750, and Morris remained a widower. A son and a daughter survived him. The (elder) son, ROBERT MORRIS, born 9 March 1746, married Jane Parry, a widow, of the Bulkeley of Brynddu family (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 33), sold his share of the Llanfugail estate
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic , Bangor, and the post was elevated to a chair in 1895. He married, in 1897, Mary Hughes of Siglan, Llanfair-pwll, and had four daughters. He was knighted in 1918. In the following year the University of Glasgow conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. honoris causa, and he was given the degree of D.Litt. honoris causa of the National University of Ireland in 1927. He died 16 April 1929. Poetry by him
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party by Daniel Hughes, Dewi Emrys and Wil Ifan as The Prison Sonnets of T. E. Nicholas (London, 1948) Nicholas achieved a great deal, especially as 'the people's poet'. His was a lonely, prophetic voice, inspired by the Bible and the writings of Communist philosophers from Karl Marx to R. Palme Dutt. His volumes of poetry await their literary critic. They include Salmau'r Werin (Ystalyfera, 1909), first
NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect with Henry Harold Hughes, and The Old Churches of Snowdonia (1924, with H.H. Hughes). He died 9 February 1941.
OULTON, WILFRID EWART (1911 - 1997), RAF officer joined EMI Electronics as director of defence projects, and at one stage set up a joint venture on satellite communications with Hughes Aircraft of California. In 1982, he also started his own business consultancy, Medsales Executive, and held the position of chairman until 1987. He became an honorary fellow of the University of Wales, and a fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation. His memories of
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet medal for his awdl on the Isle of Britain, and in 1811 he won the prize at Tremadoc eisteddfod for his awdl on agriculture. His masterpiece, which caused a great deal of controversy, was his awdl ' Elusengarwch ' ('Charity'), which he entered for the Denbigh eisteddfod in 1819, when the award was made to Edward Hughes ('Y Dryw,' 1772 - 1850), vicar of Bodfari. Dewi and his friends regarded this as a
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet into contact with the local poets. In January or February 1746 he was ordained deacon and appointed curate of Llanfair-mathafarn-eithaf, which gave him an opportunity of associating with the poets and antiquaries of Anglesey. When he was compelled to leave he became a curate and schoolmaster at Oswestry for three years; there, he married Elin, daughter of Owen and Margaret Hughes, who were
OWEN, HUGH (1575? - 1642) Gwenynog,, translator which was edited and published in 1684 by his son Hugh, the Jesuit priest, better known as Father John Hughes (1615 - 1686). In his introduction to Dilyniad Crist Hughes says that his father wrote ' a number of godly Dissertations, and when he was but 27 years of age translated into Welsh Llyfr y Resolution … and after that Vincentius Lirinensis, the which, perchance, may yet see the light of
OWEN, HUGH JOHN (1880 - 1961), solicitor, author and local historian Born 5 February 1880 in Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, the son of John Owen, master mariner, and his wife Elizabeth (née Hughes). He was educated at Bala grammar school, Bala. After completing his articles with the firm of Robyns-Owen, Pwllheli, and on being admitted solicitor in 1903, he joined the legal department of London County Council. He served at home and in Greece with the R.A.O.C. during
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor . The D.N.B. can hardly be right in saying that he was also under the tuition of the Quaker James Picton, for Picton left Tenby when James was only four, and spent the subsequent years mostly in prison. James Owen himself told Calamy that he was under the tuition of Samuel Jones (1628 - 1697) at Brynllywarch in 1672-3; he came afterwards under Stephen Hughes at Swansea. Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682
OWEN, JOHN DYFNALLT (Dyfnallt; 1873 - 1956), minister (Congl.), poet, writer, journalist and Archdruid of Wales researching the history of Independent causes. Stephen Hughes (1912), ' Tomos Glyn Cothi ' (Thomas Evans, 1764 - 1833) (Y Dysgedydd, 1933) and ' Y Tri Brawd o Lanbrynmair ' (Adroddiad Undeb yr Annibynwyr, 1928) were some of his heroes, and he wrote about them not so much to record events as to inspire a new generation. In 1927 he was appointed editor of Y Tyst, a position he enjoyed as a means of expressing
OWEN, MATTHEW (1631 - 1679) Llangar, Edeirnion, poet poem to Richard Hughes, vicar of Gwytherin (a living which he held from 1660-74). In a late manuscript of the latter (NLW MS 668C), the poet is called 'Mathew Goch, alias Owen.' Matthew Owen was a keen Anglican, and turned in the same circle as Huw Morys and Edward Morris. He was a competent composer of englynion, and one englyn of his, viz. 'Aneddfawr santaidd noddfa…' can be seen above the church

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