Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN family Orielton, , and the Orielton candidate was several times defeated. Matters reached a climax in the Reform agitation. In May 1831 Sir John Owen, first baronet of the new creation, was opposed in the county by Robert Fulke Greville. Sir John was returned, but unseated on petition. In the following October he was returned by an increased majority. The expense was enormous and embarrassed both parties. Sir John
OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda Archaeological Association published, in 1863, Owen's transcript and translation of the so-called 'Gwentian' Brut, together with the introduction which he had prepared for the 'Monumenta.' In connection with the preparation for the works mentioned above Owen had, naturally, visited several libraries; he was also, as the son of William Owen Pughe, interested in the literary content of such manuscripts as he saw
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet , named Gaerwen, at Pwllheli, and owing to his brother's ill-health, Dewi and his mother moved to Pwllheli in 1827. He still held the farm at Gaerwen, and when his brother died in 1837, he returned home, and remained there to the end of his days. His bardic tutor was Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), his neighbour, who lived at Betws Fawr, near Gaerwen. At the age of 21 Dewi won the Gwyneddigion
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet one of the secretaries of the Tremadoc eisteddfod in 1851. As a bard he was not as eminent as his contemporaries, Dewi Wyn and Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu); but he composed a number of short poems and englynion, and he wrote scores of epitaphs at the request of friends and neighbours. His poems and essays were published in a volume entitled Cell Meudwy by his friend Robert Isaac Jones
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist ('Twm Sion Cati'), and other antiquaries and genealogists of his day. He was the centre of a small group of writers in Pembrokeshire which included George Owen Harry, Robert Holland, and George William Griffith, and he gave his patronage and the hospitality of Henllys to many of the Welsh bards of the period. His most important work is ' The Description of Penbrockshire ' which appears to owe
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet readiness to sell Wales to strangers field by field and house by house. His poetry reflects his pride in his lineage (which he claimed could be traced back to Llywarch Hen!), his consciousness of what made him what he was and of the society he was brought up in, but there is in it also much of the bitterness of one who was disappointed in his compatriots and their compliant Britishness. Branwen Jarvis
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet Jones of Llanrwst published an edition of Goronwy Owen's works in 1860 with the title Gronoviana; the Rev. Robert Jones of Rotherhithe (1810 - 1879), another edition in 1876; and Isaac Foulkes, his Holl Waith Barddonol Goronwy Owen in 1878. Among later editions of Goronwy Owen's works are 'Cyfres y Fil,' 1902; Cywyddau Goronwy Owen, W. J. Gruffydd, 1907; Y Farn Fawr … a Dinistr Jerusalem; Clasuron
OWEN, GRIFFITH (1647 - 1717), Quaker and medical man son of Robert and Jane Owen, Dolserau, Dolgelley. He served as a medical man in Lancashire for some time before he emigrated in 1684, with his aged parents, to Pennsylvania, where he settled in Merion ('Welsh Tract'). He travelled much on behalf of his faith and it would seem that William Penn had a high opinion of him. He returned in 1695, in which year he published Our Ancient Testimony, to
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, Sir HUGH (1804 - 1881), educationist 1853 he became chief clerk, and retained this position when the work of the commission was transferred to the Local Government Board. His chief work lay in the field of Welsh education. On 26 August 1843 he addressed a ' Letter to the Welsh People ' on day-schools. In November 1843 he secured the appointment of an agent for the British and Foreign Schools Society in North Wales, and later in South
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian school in 1918, a post which he held until he retired in 1944. A year after he returned to Anglesey he was elected editor of the transactions of the county's Antiquarian Society and Field Club and he was responsible for the periodical for the next twenty years. Between 1920 and 1949 he edited a number of Anglesey historical sources for inclusion in the periodical, such as the records of the Anglesey
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander the field till the following summer, first in operations round Oxford (May 1643), then at the siege of Bristol, where in command of the 6th brigade under Rupert he was wounded in the face (18 July), and at the first battle of Newbury (20 September). He was back in Caernarvonshire by April 1644, and in the autumn he was reappointed as sheriff of Caernarvonshire, remaining in office until the king's

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