Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN family Orielton, Short Parliament of 1640 and again Pembroke borough in the Long Parliament of that year. He was sheriff in the years 1634 and 1654 and was created a baronet in 1641. During the Civil War he was an opportunist. At the outset he favoured the Parliament and supported his cousin Rowland Laugharne and John Poyer at Pembroke. He was a prisoner in the hands of Sir Henry Vaughan, when he evacuated
OWEN, Sir ARTHUR DAVID KEMP (1904 - 1970), international administrator Born 26 November 1904, the eldest son of Edward Owen, minister of Crane Street church (B), Pontypool, Monmouthshire, who some months previously had moved from Bethel church (B), Tonypandy, and his wife Gertrude Louisa, daughter of Thomas Henry Kemp. (He had been a notable schoolmaster in Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, from 1865 to 1892 and a master in the Normal department of the University College
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, 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 (1844 - 1919), antiquary
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar Born in 1716 at Dyffrydan, about 3 miles from Dolgellau, son of William Owen (died 1767), a lawyer, and christened 29 January at Dolgelley. His mother's name was Jonet(te). According to Powys Fadog (vi, 463-72), he was of the family of baron Lewis Owen (died 1555). Henry was his father's second son; the eldest was Lewis Owen (died 1757), whose son was Henry Owen (1750 - 1827), a Dolgelley
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' under the Indulgence to preach in his own house; in September Henry Maurice, (1634 - 1682) called on his journey to Llyn; early in 1676 James Owen paid him a visit on his way to the militant Independents of Eifionydd, doubtless not without delivering a sermon in secret to Hugh Owen and the other six nonconformists who were counted in Llanegryn and district in archbishop Sheldon's census of that year
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, JEREMY (fl. 1704-1744), Presbyterian minister and writer -y-ceisiaid ensued, led by Mathias Maurice and Henry Palmer. Undefined but self-confessed laxity of conduct on Jeremy Owen's part compelled him to resign his pastorate, c. 1715. He is found keeping school in London in 1718; in 1721-6 he was pastor at Petworth; in 1726-32 at Barnet; and in 1733-44 at Princes Risborough. He afterwards emigrated to America (T. Rees, Hist. of Prot. Noncon., 2nd ed
OWEN, JOHN (1616 - 1683), Puritan (Independent) divine Who 'with Baxter and Howe, stands in the front rank of Puritan divines'. Born in 1616, died 24 August 1683. His career is recounted in the D.N.B., and has nothing to do with Wales, except that generations of Wales's most famous Calvinistic preachers were nurtured on Owen's works. But he was of Welsh blood. He was the son of Henry Owen, vicar of Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, and thus grandson of
OWEN, Baron LEWIS (d. 1555), judge Son of Owen ap Hywel ap Llywelyn, of Llwyn, Dolgelley. Under Henry VIII he was appointed deputy-chamberlain of North Wales and baron (i.e. judge) of the exchequer at Caernarvon; he was sheriff of Merioneth in 1545-6 and 1554-5, and Member of Parliament for the shire in 1547, 1553, and 1554; he lived at Cwrt Plas-yn-dre, Dolgelley. As sheriff, he undertook to extirpate the ' Red Bandits of Mawddwy
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

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