Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN family Peniarth, , 4th son of baron Lewis Owen, of Dolgelley, Elizabeth was the mother of LEWIS OWEN I (died 1633), who left two daughters (1) MARGARET (died 4 October 1667), the heiress, and (2) Susan, mother of Hugh Owen (1639 - 1700), who was given Bronyclydwr, a few miles from Peniarth. Margaret, by her first husband, Richard Owen of Morben, Machynlleth, was the mother of LEWIS OWEN II (1625 - 1691), who was high
OWEN, EDWARD HUMPHREY (1850 - 1904) Tŷ Coch,, book-collector and local historian Annual Report of the National Library for the years 1909-10. The manuscripts, now NLW MS 815-68, are described in N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., i, 61-7; they include several volumes containing pedigrees and poems, seven volumes from the library of Sir Richard Colt Hoare; two volumes compiled by William Williams, Llandygài; and volumes which had belonged previously to Jonathan Jones, surveyor of taxes
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet (Alltud Eifion) at Tremadoc in 1877. A number of his manuscripts are now in the N.L.W. His mother, Anne (Thomas), was sister to the antiquaries John Thomas (1736 - 1769) and Richard Thomas (1753 - 1780) - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 359.
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist something of its design to Richard Carew's Survey of Cornwall (1602). The ' First Booke,' a general history of the county, was completed on 18 May 1603; only a fragment of the ' Second Booke ' (published in N.L.W. Jnl., v), a detailed history of the county parish by parish, has survived and it is doubtful whether Owen ever completed his ambitious scheme. He had already written ' A Dialogue of the present
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar ) of Beaumaris, and the essay was the work of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. Still, Owen certainly brought out the 2nd edition of Mona Antiqua Restaurata, by Henry Rowlands (1655 - 1723). He was a prominent Cymmrodor, and acted as reviser of the papers sent up to be read before the society. There is much talk of him in the Morris Letters. He was a neighbour and friend of Richard Morris's - not that this
OWEN, HUGH (1575? - 1642) Gwenynog,, translator Born about 1575, son of Owen ap Hugh ap Richard, the owner of the small estate of Gwenynog, in the parish of Llanfflewyn, Anglesey. It is not certain that he ever went to a university, but he is said to have been learned not only in law but in more than one foreign language, ' the which he was not taught by any Teacher save himself, and that in his own study in his own home.' In the course of the
OWEN, HUGH (1832 - 1897), musician Born 15 January 1832 at Botwnnog, Caernarfonshire, the son of Richard and Mary Owen. After a period spent in Botwnnog grammar school he became a tailor and settled at Tal-y-sarn in the Nantlle valley. After marriage he lived in a house called Pen-yr-yrfa and afterwards in one called Bryn-y-coed. He was precentor at the Tal-y-sarn C.M. chapel for over forty years; he started the Tal-y-sarn Glee
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor Shrewsbury, removing his academy thither - for accounts of the Academy, see his biography and McLachlan, English Education under the Test Acts, 81-2. He died 8 April 1706; he married three times. Although James Owen ranked as an Independent, he had leanings towards Presbyterianism, and he agreed with Richard Baxter in his low-Calvinist theology and in his moderation. His career is that of a definite
OWEN, JOHN (d. 1759), poet, harpist, letter-writer the litigation in which the latter was involved. A strained relationship developed between the two, however, and while in London John Owen associated with Richard Morris and assisted him in the preparation of Goronwy Owen's works for the press. About thirty of his letters survive in addition to some verse in the cywydd metre. In 1758 he was appointed clerk on a man-of-war, and he died of fever at
OWEN, JOHN JONES (1876 - 1947), musician Born 2 May 1876 at Bryncoed, Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, son of Hugh Owen and Mary his wife, and a brother of Richard G. Owen ('Pencerdd Llyfnwy'). He learnt to play the organ and the viola. He was conductor of the Nantlle Ladies Choir which took the prize at the Cardiff national eisteddfod of 1897. Appointed organist of Tal-y-sarn (CM) chapel, he succeeded his father as precentor there. Among
OWEN, MARGARET (Peggy; 1742 - 1816) friend of Hester Lynch Piozzi and Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the daughter of Lewys Owen (1696 - 1746), younger son of Sir Robert Owen of Porkington (Brogyntyn), Salop, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lyster of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, and Moynes Court, Monmouthshire. Her father, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, was rector of Barking, Essex (1735-46), and Wexham, Buckinghamshire (1742-6
OWEN, MATTHEW (1631 - 1679) Llangar, Edeirnion, poet Oxford, but his name does not appear in Foster or in Wood. His Carol o Gyngor was published in Oxford in 1658, and fifteen facsimile copies were reproduced in 1897 under the editorship of Richard Ellis. Poems by Owen are found in Carolau a dyrïau duwiol (1729 ed., 114), and in Blodeu-Gerdd Cymru (150, 288, 382). The last of these can be dated 1656 from internal evidence. Many other poems, mainly

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