Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, WILLIAM RICHARD (1906 - 1982), pioneer of Welsh broadcasting W. R. Owen was born in Holyhead on the 22nd of July 1906, the son of Captain Richard Griffith Owen (1878-1973) of Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire and his wife Margaret Ann Lewis (1883-1980) of Holyhead. The father ran away to the army at 15, and joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was a Lieutenant in the British Army that invaded the Legation Quarter at Beijing/Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in
OWENS, JOHNNY RICHARD (JOHNNY OWEN; 1956 - 1980), boxer Johnny Owen was born in Gwaunfarren Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on 7 January 1956, the fourth of eight children of Dick Owens (1927-2013) and his wife Edith (née Hale, born 1927). He was baptized Johnny Richard Owens. The family home was at 12 Heol Bryn Selu, a rented council house on the large Gellideg estate. He took up boxing at the age of eight, frequenting the Merthyr Amateur Club with his
OWENS, OWEN (1794 - 1838), leader of the 'Little Wesleyan' movement He lived at Caer-gron, Llaneilian (Amlwch), and was a Wesleyan local preacher in 1816. The Wesleyan local preachers in North Wales were at the time kicking against the authority of the ordained ministers, and in 1831 twelve of them, with Owens at their head, met to consider the situation. On 6 October 1831 they decided to secede from the Wesleyan Connexion and to set up a new connexion. Owen
OWENS, OWEN (1792 - 1862), Independent minister, and schoolmaster
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian aim) at least of Wrexham and its environs. In 1885 he published an essay on The History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales, intended as an introductory study, but believed by him (and by other scholars, including Frederic Seebohm, who became his warm admirer) to be his best work. It was expanded and republished in 1910 with the collaboration of Edward Owen of the India Office
PALMER, HENRY (1679 - 1742), Independent minister Born at Llwyndrysi, Llan-gan, Carmarthenshire. He was a farmer, and a member of Henllan Amgoed congregation; but in the revolt against Jeremy Owen there, in 1711, he followed Mathias Maurice into the rival camp at Rhydyceisiaid, where he became a teaching elder. But with all Palmer's zeal for Calvinist and congregationalist principles, he was personally a kindly and greatly-liked man, and it is
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Catholics, giving rise to a debate in the House of Commons, 1813. Like his father, he took a keen interest in Welsh studies and antiquities, though he understood little of the language. He lent Evan Evans's transcripts to Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) and William Owen Pughe for the publication of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, and the first volume, 1801, was dedicated to him. He was also a patron of David
PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn family descent - a great Churchman and benefactor of the church of Llanbedrog. It was his grandson, the third LOVE PARRY (1720 - 1778), who brought Madryn to the family, and moved there to live, by his marriage with Sidney, great-granddaughter of Jane, sister of Owen Hughes, the rich Beaumaris attorney who had bought Madryn from William Madryn, the last of the old family (see article Madryn). Their son
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator calling, he set his sights on academia, and took up a lecturing post at the law department in Aberystwyth in 1920. Working under the direction of his old tutor and head of the law department, Professor Thomas A. Levi, he remained there until 1924. In 1923, he married Haf, the only daughter of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards and his wife, Ellen. In 1924, a defining moment came in his career when he took up a
PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary , e.g. Coffhad am y Parch. Daniel Rowlands, by John Owen, 1839, and The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, 1837. Parry wrote the memoir which forms the preface to this book, and he also edited and published Blodau Arfon, sef gwaith Dewi Wyn, 1842. He was a successful competitor on historical essays at eisteddfodau. He published Historical Researches on the Flintshire Castles, 1830, which was submitted
PARRY, GRIFFITH (1827 - 1901), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Caernarvon in December 1827; his mother was sister to Robert Owen (Eryron Gwyllt Walia) and a niece of the famous Calvinistic Methodist preachers Robert Roberts of Clynnog and John Roberts of Llangwm - appropriately enough, Parry was to edit the poems of Robert Owen and the sermons of Robert Roberts. He went to Bala C.M. College (1847-1851), and began preaching. In 1851, while continuing
PARRY, HUGH (Cefni; 1826 - 1895), Baptist minister, poet, littérateur, and theologian Born 20 September 1826, in the parish of Cerrig-ceinwen, Anglesey, son of Owen and Ellinor Parry, Tyddyn Sawdwr, Llangefni. He was originally a member of the Congregational churches at Llangefni and Rhos-y-meirch, and was ordained minister at Bagillt 26 December 1848, but seceded to the Baptists at Llangefni 6 October 1850 and held pastorates at Rhos-y-bol (January-May 1851) Dowlais (May 1851-5

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