Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MUTTON, Sir PETER (1565 - 1637), judge and politician surviving personal letters written in the Welsh language, in which he explains to his mother the considerations which have led to his precipitate marriage to a well-endowed orphan girl. The letter has some historical importance, since it is written in a period when the Welsh gentry were becoming anglicized. By the will of his uncle, Edward Griffith of Llannerch, who died in 1601, Mutton inherited most of
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, The Denbighshire Myddeltons claimed descent from Rhirid Flaidd, lord of Penllyn (died 1207), but had adopted the English surname after the marriage of his descendant Rhirid ap David (c. 1393-4) to the daughter of Sir Alexander Myddelton of Myddelton, Salop. His great-grandson, DAVID MYDDELTON, was Receiver for North Wales under Edward IV and Richard III. David's eldest son settled at Gwaenynog
NAISH, JOHN (1923 - 1963), author and playwright John Naish was born on 20 April 1923 in Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, the third of four children of William John Frederick Naish, a carpenter, and his wife Sarah Ann (née Griffiths), a teacher. His siblings were older brothers William and Edward, and younger sister Lilian (Lily). He was educated at Eastern Primary School and Port Talbot Secondary School. He was keen on sport throughout his life
NANNEY family Nannau, EDWARD VAUGHAN (died 1807) had already succeeded by will to the Rûg estate (1780); these Rûg lands were in the possession of the Vaughans of Nannau till the death of the third Sir ROBERT VAUGHAN (1803 - 1859), when the second son of lord Newborough became proprietor. According to Sir Robert's will - he died without children - Hengwrt went to his wife's sisters (she was a Lloyd of Rhagad) and Nannau to
NEPEAN, MARY EDITH (1876 - 1960), novelist Born at LlandudnoLlandudno, Caernarfonshire in 1876, daughter of John Bellis, a Caernarfonshire county councillor, and Mary, his wife. She was educated at home, studying art with Robert Fowler, and later showed her work at a number of exhibitions. She married in 1899 Molyneux Edward Nepean, of a family of high-ranking civil servants, and resided in England, moving in literary circles in London
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet Ceiriog of the 18th century. Here is a lyric poet, one who could hear the music of words, a poet who delighted in the liveliness of his measures. He was undoubtedly the best bard in Glamorgan in the 18th cent, before the time of Iolo Morganwg. It is generally said that he sent to Edward Evan (1716 - 1798) a letter in which the technique of composing in the free metres was discussed, but it is fairly
NORRIS, CHARLES (1779 - 1858), artist concerned with S. Davids and Pembroke and Tenby, and he published a book, A Historical Account of Tenby, in 1818 (2nd ed. 1820). He was a 'character,' and Edward Laws has a lively article upon him in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1891 (the source of the D.N.B. article).
OLIVER, EDWARD (1720 - 1777), early Methodist and Moravian, a carpenter
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords and a member of new party leader Edward Heath's Shadow Cabinet, but resigned after a year. There were suggestions this was linked to disinterest in politics after his ambassadorship, but a number of things likely caused this change. In 1967 his wife was killed in a car crash after a family weekend in Harlech. In addition, private papers sold at auction in
OWEN family Cefn-hafodau, Glangynwydd, Glansevern, Llangurig Wrangler in 1777 and won the principal Smith Prize in the same year. He gained his M.A. degree in 1780, and became a Fellow of his college. He took orders, but afterwards settled in New Brunswick, where he died, unmarried, on 10 December 1829. (c) WILLIAM OWEN (1758 - 1837), He. was bapt. 22 August 1758 in Berriew church. He was educated at Warrington under his uncle Edward (2, below), went to Jesus
OWEN family Peniarth, to Edward Breese, Kalendars of Gwynedd, and to S. R. Meyrick's edition of Dwnn's Heraldic Visitations and (b) in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 323. What follows here is, therefore, but a summary. The family traced its descent from Ednowain ap Bradwen down to a LLYWELYN who did homage for his land to Edward I. Llywelyn's son, EDNYFED, married GWENLLIAN, daughter and co-heiress of Gruffydd ab Adda ap
OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda . His achievements have been compared, in some respects, with those of Edward Lhuyd; like the latter he published a list of manuscripts of Welsh interest which he had seen in North Wales, the list appearing as 'Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts, etc., in North Wales' in vol. ii, part iv, of the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion or Metropolitan Cambrian Institution (London, 1843); the list had been awarded

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