Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWAIN GWYNEDD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet Llwydiarth, Siôn Salbri of Llyweni, Dafydd Llwyd ap Wiliam of Peniarth, and Dafydd Llwyd ap Huw ab Ifan of Ynys y Maengwyn. He composed an elegy to the poet ' Sir ' Owain ap Gwilym, and poems of ymryson, or controversy, to Wiliam Llŷn, and to Hugh Arwystl; he also wrote religious poems, a poem on the snow, and a number of various englynion, which include one composed by him when on his sick bed.
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Grandfather of Henry VII, son of Maredudd ap 'Sir' Tudur ap Goronwy Fychan (see under Ednyfed Fychan) by Margaret, daughter of Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd. The circumstances surrounding the early part of his life are very obscure, but it is certain that as a young man he became a servant in the household of Henry V, possibly through the influence of his courtier kinsman, Maredudd ab Owain Glyn
OWAIN, Syr DAFYDD, cleric and poet According to Camb. Biog., and Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, he flourished 1540-70. The statement in Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen that he hailed from Maenan, Caernarfonshire, suggests that he may be identified with Dafydd ab Owen, rector of Nannerch and Llanddoged, and vicar of Eglwysfach, 1537 (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 196). A
OWEN family Peniarth, Gruffydd of Dol-goch, raglot of the commote of Ystumanner on two occasions during the reign of Edward III - his tomb is at Towyn church. Their son, ARON AB EDNYFED, was succeeded by EDNYFED, whose son was GRUFFYDD, father of the RHYS AP GRUFFYDD whose will is dated 1476. JOHN AP RHYS married Angharad, daughter of Dafydd ap Meurig Fychan, Nannau, their heir being WILLIAM, living in 1566, whose wife was
OWEN ap SION ap RHYS (fl. second half of 16th century) Trefeilir, poet
OWEN, DAVID (Dafydd y Garreg Wen; 1711 - 1741), harpist Christened 27 January 1711, son of Owen Humphreys of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, and Gwen (Roberts), Isallt Fawr, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire (See J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 353). He attained fame both as harpist and as the reputed composer of the airs called ' Dafydd y Garreg Wen ' ('David of the White Rock'), ' Codiad yr Ehedydd ' ('The rising of the lark'), and ' Difyrrwch gwyr
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist ('Twm Sion Cati'), and other antiquaries and genealogists of his day. He was the centre of a small group of writers in Pembrokeshire which included George Owen Harry, Robert Holland, and George William Griffith, and he gave his patronage and the hospitality of Henllys to many of the Welsh bards of the period. His most important work is ' The Description of Penbrockshire ' which appears to owe
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet closing date. Had he done so the Eisteddfod would have received poems from four of the foremost strict metre poets in Wales, namely Alan Llwyd, Dic Jones, Donald Evans and Gerallt himself, which would have proved an additional headache to the adjudicators. The completed poem was published in his volume Cilmeri a Cherddi Eraill. In Swansea in 1982 he won again for his ode 'Cilmeri', about Llywelyn ap
OWEN, JOHN (1757 - 1829), writer on religious topics interested in theology and in astronomy, and his literary output is rather surprising when we consider his career. In 1788 he published Troedigaeth Atheos, a kind of epic in imitation of Williams of Pantycelyn's Theomemphus, with notes borrowed mostly from Golwg ar y Byd by Dafydd Lewys of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath - this work, described in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry 633, went to a second edition in 1818 (and a
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, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister corner of the district, asked for his help and he came to feel the attraction of that small and homely church. Dafydd Morgan's revival (see David Morgan, 1814 - 1883), as it was called, impelled him to offer himself officially as a candidate for the ministry. The authorities saw fit to give him a field of seven churches in which he might preach, and he was given £10 for a course of education at the
OWEN, ROBERT (1834 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author number of books, such as Hanes Methodistiaeth Gorllewin Meirionydd (two vols.), 1888; Ysgolfeistriaid Mr. Charles; Cofiant Dafydd Rolant, Pennal; Cofiant y Parch. Griffith Williams, Talsarnau. He died 8 November 1899.

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