Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWAIN ALAW - see OWEN, JOHN
OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture death, though his pastorate was rather stormy. He, too, wrote a good deal - e.g. he co-operated with Alaw Ddu (W. T. Rees) in a biography of Ieuan Gwyllt, 1880. But he also inherited his father's interest in scientific farming, having indeed worked much on his father's farm - 'at bottom,' it was said of him, 'he was a farmer.' He went to Canada to seek openings for Welsh emigrants. From 1892 till 1896
OWEN, JOHN (Owain Alaw; 1821 - 1883), musician him called 'Calfari' appeared in Haleliwia, 1849; in the Rhuddlan eisteddfod of 1851, where he was given the name of Owain Alaw, he took the prize for an anthem, 'Deborah a Barac.' In the same year he tied with John Ambrose Lloyd at the Tremadoc eisteddfod for a cantata, 'Gweddi Habacuc.' Other eisteddfodic successes were - London, 1855, 'Can Mair'; Merthyr Tydfil, 'Y ddaeargryn'; 'Cymanfa Gwent a
OWEN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Alaw;; 1762 - 1853), farmer
PARRY, JOHN (Bardd Alaw; 1776 - 1851), musician on Welsh airs to the Cambro-Briton, 1819-22. In 1820 he was appointed to organize the music side of the 'eisteddfod Powys,' to be held at Welshpool; it was at this eisteddfod that he was given the name of Bardd Alaw. In 1821 he published a collection of Welsh airs with English words by Felicia Hemans. He published two operas also that year; one of these which ran for twenty-five nights, brought him
PARRY, JOHN HUMFFREYS (1786 - 1825), antiquary somewhat hasty and overbearing.' He left a widow and five children in great poverty; the Gwyneddigion and Cymmrodorion, chiefly through the efforts of Bardd Alaw, collected more than £1,000 for their benefit. One of these children was JOHN HUMPHREYS PARRY (1816 - 1880), a barrister, and one of the last to be entitled 'Serjeant'; he appears in D.N.B. - a strong radical and a famous pleader, who appeared
PEDR ALAW - see EDWARDS, PETER
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator Eliza Pughe was born in 1826 at Chwaen Wen, Tref Alaw, Anglesey, the youngest of three children of David Roberts Pughe and his wife Elizabeth. Chwaen Wen was the home of her maternal grandparents. The family moved to Coch-y-Bug, Pontllyfni near Clynnog around 1828. Eliza's eldest brother was John Pughe (1814-1874), a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and known in Welsh literary circles as
REES, WILLIAM THOMAS (Alaw Ddu; 1838 - 1904), musician
ROBERTS, JOHN (Alaw Elwy, Telynor Cymru; 1816 - 1894), harpist violin, and the flute, and they gave a concert before queen Victoria at Pale, Meironnydd, when she visited that house in 1889. Four years previously (1885) he had given up calling himself Alaw Elwy on being invested by Gwilym Cowlyd as 'Telynor Cymru' in a bardic 'gorsedd' held on the shores of Llyn Geirionydd (1886). He died 11 May 1894. He was a fluent Romany -speaker.
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1769 - 1855), harpist Since John Parry ('Bardd Alaw') referred to him in 1808 as a very good harpist who had been collecting the works of the poets for many years, 1769 should be accepted as his year of birth, as given by R. Griffith in Cerdd Dannau. According to M. Davies (Meurig Idris) he was born in the commote of Ardudwy, Merioneth, but John Parry (Bardd Alaw) said that his birthplace was Cefn-y-mein, Llŷn
WILLIAM ALAW (fl. c. 1535), poet

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