Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture - 1917), minister, author and farmer Religion Literature and Writing Nature and Agriculture was born at Gwindy in July 1849, and died at Criccieth 15 April 1917. From Garth school at Bangor and the Liverpool Institute, he went to Bala C.M. College in 1867, began preaching, and went up to Edinburgh, where he graduated. On 30 March 1875 he was inducted as pastor at Criccieth, and remained there till his
OWEN, JOHN (1864 - 1953), minister (Presb. C.W.) and author ), Bowydd and Blaenau Ffestiniog English church (1902-09), and Engedi, Caernarfon (1909-26). He married Hannah Evans, Nantlle, but they had no children. He returned to Morfa Nefyn when he retired. He died 1 March 1953 at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, and was buried in Nefyn cemetery. He was a prominent figure in the Presb. Church of Wales, being twice Moderator of the North Wales Association (1920 and
OWEN, MORGAN (1585? - 1645), bishop ecclesiastical appointments in that diocese; in 1636 he was made D.D. of the University of Oxford. He enclosed the south yard of S. Mary's church, Oxford, and built a porch there in 1637. He was elected bishop of Llandaff in March 1639/40, holding the rectories of Bedwas and Rudry 'in commendam.' In 1641 he was impeached for promulgating the canons of 1640 and imprisoned in the Tower, and again in the
OWEN, MORRIS BRYNLLWYN (1875 - 1949), minister (B), college professor, church historian Born 15 March 1875, at Crymllwyn Bach, Abererch, Caernarfonshire. After spending some time as a weaver in Wales and England, he went to the Holt Academy near Wrexham, and in 1897 was accepted as a student in the Baptist College at Bangor, taking courses also at the university college and graduating B.A. in 1903. In 1902 he was ordained as student-pastor at Llandegfan chapel. He followed his
OWEN, OWEN (1850 - 1920), first chief inspector of the Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education in Wales Jones who was at one time Mayor of Oswestry]. He died at Colwyn Bay, 14 March 1920, and was buried in Llandrillo-yn-Rhos cemetery.
OWEN, RICHARD JONES (Glaslyn; 1831 - 1909), poet and prose-writer connection with the slate-quarries, and in 1869 he was manager of a small slate-quarry in Duffryn Ardudwy. In 1877 the Owen s removed to the village of Bryntirion, Nantmor, and shortly afterwards to a cottage called Pen-y-groes, near Aberglaslyn Bridge. On 17 May 1902 Glaslyn suffered the loss of his wife. Thereupon he entered ' Llys Ednyfed,' Penrhyndeudraeth, where he died on 13 March 1909 at the age of
OWEN, ROBERT (1858 - 1885), schoolmaster and poet Born 30 March 1858 at Tai Croesion, a small farm not far from Llanaber church, Merionethshire; son of Gruffydd Owen, boatman and farmer, and his wife Margaret. The particulars given here are taken from the biography written by (Sir) Owen M. Edwards for the selection made by him of the poems by Robert Owen, published in 1904 at Llanuwchllyn. When he was four years old, Robert Owen moved with his
OWEN, THOMAS (1748 - 1812), cleric and translator christened 3 September 1748, the son of Thomas and Margaret Owen of Rhiwlas, in the village of Pentraeth, Anglesey. On 20 March 1767 he matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1770. Early in 1771 he describes himself as 'deputy' to the librarian of the Bodleian Library. Owen was ordained deacon at the Trinity ordination, 1771, by the bishop of Oxford by letters dimissory from
OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (1764 - 1814), cleric Born at Conway 5 December 1764, but not christened till 25 March 1765; son of William Owen, draper and tax-collector, and his wife Elizabeth Ellis of Glan-y-wern, Mochdre, daughter of John Ellis, a lawyer. He went up from Westminster School in 1785 to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1789. In 1790 he was given the college living of South Stoke, Oxfordshire, but on 10 December 1794 became
OWEN, WILLIAM (fl. c. 1486-1574), lawyer Fitzherbert, one of the justices of Common Pleas. He brought out two editions of a small abridgement of the laws which were published by Pynson in 1521 and 1528 respectively. It is not certain that an edition dated 1499 was by him, although the supposition that it was is not ruled out by its early date, for it is said that when Owen died, on 29 March 1574, hale and hearty to the end, he was over 100 years
OWEN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1830), Evangelical cleric Port. The bishop of Hereford gave him the vicarage of Almeley on 11 December 1816; to that was added, on 6 March 1823, the rectory of Ryme Intrinsica, Sherborne, of which the prince of Wales (afterwards king George IV) was the patron. He often visited Pembrokeshire and, when his father died, became the owner of Frongoch. He was an active supporter of the Church Missionary Society. He died 4 February
OWENS, OWEN (1794 - 1838), leader of the 'Little Wesleyan' movement Owens was the prime mover, and he travelled extensively in Caernarvonshire, Montgomeryshire, and Cardiganshire on behalf of the new connexion, not without a good measure of success - and of loss to the Wesleyan churches. His death, at his own home, 10 March 1838, aged 44, was a heavy blow to the seceders, who were already in financial difficulty. Their members gradually returned to the bosom of

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