Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OLIVER, EDWARD (1720 - 1777), early Methodist and Moravian, a carpenter Born (according to a Moravian record) in Montgomeryshire, on Good Friday (15 April or 29 March) 1720. After working at Wrexham (Gomer M. Roberts, Peter Williams, 33), he removed to Llanbrynmair; he was an inconspicuous 'public exhorter' among the Methodists. In the disruption of 1750 he sided with Howel Harris; he was on mission for Harris in North Wales and was present at several of the
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario daughters, Jane, Victoria, and Alice. After his Second World War military service, which Ormsby-Gore ended as a Major, he managed the family estates. In the 1950 General Election, he successfully stood for the Conservatives in the Oswestry constituency that included Brogyntyn. He represented the area until 1961, serving as a minister under two Prime Ministers. After brief service as a Parliamentary Under
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist 'Gweithiau ac athrylith Llew Llwyfo' awarded at Colwyn Bay in 1910. R. Williams Parry won the chair for his ode 'Yr Haf' in the same eisteddfod. A procession was organised, lead by the Nantlle band, to welcome both home from that eisteddfod. He married (1) Claudia Roberts, 12 June 1916; one daughter was born to them. His wife died 29 November 1918. He married (2) in 1921 Enid May Jones from Port Dinorwic
OWEN family Peniarth, succeeded by LEWIS OWEN III (died 1729), sheriff of Merioneth, 1714, of Caernarvonshire, 1715, and ' Custos Rotulorum ' of Merioneth, 1722-8. By his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir William Williams of Llanforda, 2nd baronet (son of ' Speaker Williams '), Lewis Owen III was the father of RICHARD OWEN II, who died 29 September 1729 at the early age of 13. Richard Owen's sister JANE (died 1765), married, as
OWEN family Orielton, Cynddelw, said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd; Elizabeth Wirriot was the daughter and sole heiress of George Wirriot and his wife Jane, daughter of John Philipps of Picton castle. (The Wirriot family had been settled in Pembrokeshire since the 12th century; Giraldus Gambrensis mentions a Stephen of that name. A David Wirriot of the barony of Pembroke was one of the twelve jurors for the subsidy of
OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda his education at the hands of his father, who was anxious that his son should be interested in the Welsh historical and literary studies for which he, the father, was already well-known. Aneurin Owen made his home, on reaching manhood, at Tan-y-gyrt, Nantglyn. He married, 1820, Jane Lloyd, also of Nantglyn. He became one of the assistant Tithe commissioners for England and Wales, afterwards becoming
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, DAVID (Brutus; 1795 - 1866), editor and littérateur ; Darganfyddiadau yn Ninefeh, 1852 (a translation of an English book by A. H. Layard); Brutusiana, 1855, a selection of his writings from Yr Haul, and Cofiant y Diweddar Barch. Thomas Williams, 1861. His importance lies in his work not as a scholar and theologian but rather as a satirist. The chief object of his satire was quackery, in particular the quackery of the worst Nonconformist preachers, the 'Jacks,' as
OWEN, Sir DAVID JOHN (1874 - 1941), docks manager Born in Liverpool 8 March 1874 the son of R. Ceinwenydd Owen, minister (Presb.) and Elizabeth Jane (née Jones). He married (1), in 1899, Mary Elizabeth (died 1906) daughter of Captain William Owen, Caernarfon; and (2), in 1908, Marian Maud, widow of J.H. Thomas, Carmarthen, and daughter of Alderman William Williams of Haverfordwest; there were no children. He was educated at the Liverpool
OWEN, EDWARD HUMPHREY (1850 - 1904) Tŷ Coch,, book-collector and local historian Annual Report of the National Library for the years 1909-10. The manuscripts, now NLW MS 815-68, are described in N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., i, 61-7; they include several volumes containing pedigrees and poems, seven volumes from the library of Sir Richard Colt Hoare; two volumes compiled by William Williams, Llandygài; and volumes which had belonged previously to Jonathan Jones, surveyor of taxes
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet church Pentrefelin; and bards such as Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), David Owen (Dewi Wyn), and Morris Williams (Nicander), used to visit the society often. Ellis Owen was also regarded as a sound adjudicator, and he was co-adjudicator with Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) on the chair poem at the Gordofigion eisteddfod, Liverpool, 1840, when Eben Fardd won the prize for his awdl ' Job '; he was also
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet Gerallt Lloyd Owen was born at Tŷ Uchaf, a farm in the parish of Llandderfel, Meirionethshire, on 6 November 1944, the second son of Henry Lloyd Owen (1906-1982), farmer and Pest Officer for Merioneth and Gwynedd, and Jane Ellen (Jin, 1905-1989), a teacher who also kept the village shop and post office at her original home, Broncaereini in Sarnau after the family had moved there in 1945 following

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