Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, OWEN (1850 - 1920), first chief inspector of the Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education in Wales Born in the parish of Llaniestyn, Llŷn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog, together with his cousin John Owen, later bishop of S. Davids. He proceeded to Jesus College, Oxford, and took honours in classics. From his youth he was interested in music. About 1878 he became headmaster of a private school in Oswestry. The school was successful and developed in 1883 into the
OWEN, OWEN GRIFFITH (Alafon; 1847 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet was unmarried. He died 8 February 1916, and was buried at Bryn'rodyn, near Groeslon, Caernarfonshire His brother, WILLIAM GRIFFITH OWEN ('Llifon '; 1857 - 25 September 1922) was a Baptist minister, a poet, and a notable eisteddfodic conductor (on him, see Y Geninen, 1923, 109).
OWEN, OWEN JOHN (1867 - 1960) y Fenni, printer and publisher, choir conductor and eisteddfod compère , where his father was the secretary. At Abergavenny he was a member of the Independent church, Castle St., where he became deacon and precentor. In 1897 he and his brother, Edwin Vaughan Owen (died 22 October 1950), bought the Minerva Press, and their office in Neville St. became a meeting place for members of the local Welsh -speaking community. Among the Welsh books published by the Owen Brothers is
OWEN, PEGGY - see OWEN, MARGARET
OWEN, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister Born in 1839, son of John and Mary Owen of Ystum Werddon, Llangristiolus, Anglesey. Richard's education was spasmodic for his father died when he was 11 years of age and his brother died a year later. When he made known his desire to enter the ministry the authorities were dubious because it was felt that he would need a lot of training. As he grew up the little chapel of Cana, tucked away in a
OWEN, RICHARD (fl. 1552), translator
OWEN, RICHARD - see OWEN, RICHARD JONES
OWEN, RICHARD GRIFFITH (Pencerdd Llyfnwy; 1869 - 1930), musician Born 1 April 1869 at Pen-yr-yrfa, Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, the son of Hugh Owen and Mary Owen of Bryn-y-Coed, Tal-y-sarn, his wife. He learnt to play the 'cello and the clarinet and to make orchestral arrangements. Later, he became responsible for writing the orchestral arrangements of hymn-tunes, etc., which were sung at singing festivals held by Calvinistic Methodists and Congregationalists
OWEN, RICHARD JONES (Glaslyn; 1831 - 1909), poet and prose-writer Born 13 April 1831 at Llofft-y-tŷ-llaeth, Park, Llanfrothen, Meironnydd, son of John and Elizabeth Owen. His early education was of the scantiest. After a period as a boy-servant at Ynysfor, he found work at the age of 14, in the slate-quarries of Ffestiniog. He married Elin Jones of Beddgelert, and they made their home at Beddgelert, where two sons were born to them. Glaslyn continued his
OWEN, RICHARD MORGAN (1877 - 1932), Wales and Swansea Rugby scrummage halfback Born 1877. Of small physique and looking prematurely old, Owen was extremely tough and on the Rugby field he had acquired a technique in passing the ball and a craft in his play around the scrummage never, perhaps, excelled. He was generally acclaimed a master of tactics, and with his club partner, Richard Jones, helped to make Swansea the outstanding club side in the season 1904-5. Owen, as
OWEN, ROBERT (d. 1685), Quaker grandson of Robert Owen of Dolserau, Dolgelley, who was an attorney in the Court of the Marches at Ludlow and a son of ' baron ' Lewis Owen. In the Civil War he sided with Parliament. He sat on the North Wales Composition Committee in August 1649, was a militia commissioner for Merioneth from May 1651, was appointed for his county (October 1653) by Barebone's Parliament on the only county
OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist Born at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 14 May 1771, his father, Robert Owen, was a saddler and ironmonger in the town, and his mother the daughter of a local farmer named Williams. His only formal education was what he received before he was 10 when he left home to serve four years' apprenticeship to a Scottish draper, James McGuffog, at Stamford, Lines. After a short time as a draper's assistant in

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