Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OSBWRN WYDDEL (fl. 1293), Irish nobleman and ancestor of landed families in Merioneth Decies and Desmond.' Gerald (Fitz Walter) de Windsor was constable of Pembroke castle - he was alive in 1108; his wife was Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. The well-known antiquary Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (see Peniarth MS 6) surmised that Osbwrn came to Wales c. 1237 but W. W. E. Wynne suggests a rather later period. There is evidence that he was taxed up to a fifteenth in the parish of Llanaber in
OULTON, WILFRID EWART (1911 - 1997), RAF officer the RAF squash champion for 1938-39. When war broke out in September 1939 Oulton was commanding officer of C Flight, 217 Squadron based at RAF Carew Cheriton in Pembrokeshire, but he was soon seconded to the Ministry of Aircraft Production to organise navigational training. He was mentioned in dispatches in February 1940 and promoted to wing commander in March 1941. In April 1943, Oulton was
OWAIN ap THOMAS ap RHODRI (d. 1378), soldier of fortune and pretender to the principality of Wales Son of Thomas ap Rhodri ap Gruffydd by one Cecilia - he was therefore a great-great-grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and a great-nephew of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Born c. 1330, probably on Thomas's estate of Tatsfield in Surrey, he appears to have entered the service of Philip VI of France while still quite young, and except for a brief interval of less than twelve months, spent the remainder of
OWAIN CYFEILIOG (c. 1130 - 1197), prince and poet
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales'
OWAIN GWYNEDD (OWAIN GWYNEDD; c. 1100 - 1170), king of Gwynedd
OWAIN GWYNEDD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier
OWEN family Plas-du, sheriff of Caernarvonshire Public and Social Service, Civil AdministrationReligion in 1568-9, but began absenting himself from Anglican worship c. 1573, and in 1576 was believed to be taking steps towards transferring the estate to his younger brother Foulk and joining his other brothers (below) abroad. Out of the suspicions thus aroused grew a series of official enquiries and lawsuits (1578 ff.) 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, ATHELSTAN (1676 - 1731) Rhiwsaeson, He was born in 1676 (christened 26 November); on his family, see Mont. Coll., xxii, 35-43. He went up to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1693, but did not graduate; was sheriff of Merioneth in 1726; died 14 August 1731, and was buried at Towyn, Merioneth. U.C.N.W. Library Bangor MS. 7056 (1-75) contains English verse written by him, headed 'the second part,' and belonging to the years 1711- c. 1729
OWEN, EDWARD (1853 - 1943), journalist, barrister, and antiquary Born at Menai Bridge, Anglesey, 9 March 1853, only son of Edward and Sarah Owen, a former deputy chief constable of Anglesey, he was educated locally, and at a private seminary in Dublin. He was the first Welshman to enter the Civil Service by public examination and was appointed to the India Office c. 1873, where he remained until his retirement in 1913. During his stay of over sixty years in

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