Dictionary of Welsh Biography

O'NEIL, BRYAN HUGH ST. JOHN (1905 - 1954), archaeologist produced an officially-sponsored report on the coastal castles of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). He was secretary and editor of the Congress of Archaeological Societies. He was an industrious and conscientious worker, a zealous churchman and a keen follower of rugby. He died 24 October 1954 in Edinburgh.
OLIVER, DAVID (fl. 1785-1814), Baptist minister Unitarianism. He was minister of the 'Old Meeting' at Aberdare from 1803 to 1806, and of Gellionnen from 1806 till the latter part of 1814. His name recurs in the Monthly Repository in the years 1807-13, in the reports of the assemblies of General Baptists and Unitarians alike - the latest mention is that he was to preach in the Unitarian Association of 12 December 1813. But on 24 December 1814, Seren Gomer
OLIVER, EDWARD (1720 - 1777), early Methodist and Moravian, a carpenter removed to Fishguard. He died at Fishguard, 3 June 1777, and was buried in the Brethren's burial-ground at Haverfordwest.
OLIVER, JOHN (1838 - 1866), poet Born 7 November 1838 at White Hall, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, and christened 18 November, the fourth child of John and Sarah Oliver. He received his early education at the village school (1843-50) and in a Carmarthen school (1850-3), and then determined to prepare himself for the Independent ministry. After a successful career from 1853 to 1859 in the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, where he
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR (1885 - 1964), politician and banker prominent politician although occasionally impulsive. After retiring from political life he turned his attention to banking and to his interests in the arts. He had already published Florentine sculptors of the fifteenth century (1930), A guide to the Mantegna cartoons at Hampton Court (1935), and Guides to the ancient monuments of England (3 volumes). He and his father deposited a valuable collection of
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Dwr. During her widowhood, the dowager-queen, Catherine of Valois, mother of the boy-king Henry VI, fell in love with her tall, attractive attendant, and though there is no record of the event, all the evidence points to a secret marriage between them in 1429. The children of this union were: (1) Edmund, earl of Richmond, father of Henry VII; (2) Jasper, earl of Pembroke; (3) Owen, a monk of
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist Born 3 July 1877 at Blaen-yr-yrfa, Tal-y-sarn, Nantlle Valley, Caernarfonshire, one of the eight children of Hugh Owen and his wife Mary. When Owain was young, the family moved to Bryn-y-coed in the same district. At twelve years of age the lad went to work to Gloddfa Glai quarry and to 'Cornwall' later. When he was aged fifteen he took to journalism and became a member of the editorial staff of
OWEN family Plas-du, . 1570), canon of Mantes Religion, was the 3rd son of Owen ap Gruffydd, and was probably also brought up in the household of the earl of Arundel, who presented him (1560) to the living of West Felton, Salop, which he forfeited or resigned in 1570, obtaining a licence to study abroad. He read law at Douai (1570-3), went on to Rome, and after at least one visit home settled in France with recommendations
OWEN family Peniarth, her second husband, Edward Williams (died 1762), son of John Williams of Bodelwyddan, the issue of that marriage being three daughters, (1) Jane (died 1811), (2) Elizabeth, and (3) Margaret. It was this JANE, the heiress of Peniarth, who married WILLIAM WYNNE, of Wern, Penmorfa, Caernarvonshire, in 1771.
OWEN family Cefn-hafodau, Glangynwydd, Glansevern, Llangurig support of the Reform Bill of 1832. He died 10 November 1837; his widow, Anne Warburton Owen (Montgomeryshire worthies, 214), died 1876, left Glansevern to his great-grand-nephew, A. C. Humphreys, who thereupon changed his name to Humphreys-Owen (he is separately noticed). There are monuments to all three at Berriw. 2. EDWARD OWEN (1729? - 1807), schoolmaster, is separately noticed. 3. WILLIAM OWEN
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet 1737, to Friars school, Bangor. There, under the tuition of the headmaster, Edward Bennet, and his assistant, Humphrey Jones, he became a classical scholar. On 20 September 1741 he appealed to Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, one of the trustees of the Lewis Charity, for a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and on 3 June 1742 was accepted by that college as a servitor, being enrolled as a member of the
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar Born in 1716 at Dyffrydan, about 3 miles from Dolgellau, son of William Owen (died 1767), a lawyer, and christened 29 January at Dolgelley. His mother's name was Jonet(te). According to Powys Fadog (vi, 463-72), he was of the family of baron Lewis Owen (died 1555). Henry was his father's second son; the eldest was Lewis Owen (died 1757), whose son was Henry Owen (1750 - 1827), a Dolgelley

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