Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NOTT, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1845), soldier
NOVELLO, IVOR (1893 - 1951), composer, playwright, stage and film actor Born at 95 Cowbridge Road, Cardiff, 15 January 1893, of a very musical family who soon moved to Llwyn-yr-eos, 11 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, the only son of David Davies, rates collector, and Clara Novello Davies. He attended Mrs. Soulez' school nearby and received musical tuition from his mother and (Sir) Herbert Brewer, Gloucester. His good soprano voice won him prizes at eisteddfodau, and a
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history died 23 September 1801 - he was then said to be 73, which does not tally with the entry of his matriculation. He was a strong Tory, and as such earned the warm approval of Samuel Johnson. He was also strongly anti-Methodist, and was involved in debate with Sir Rowland Hill when the University expelled six Methodist undergraduates. Hill's attack, Pietas Oxoniensis (1768) was translated into Welsh by
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario diplomats not politicians, to ensure close relations. After presenting his credentials in October 1961, the Cold War and fears of mutually-assured destruction shaped his embassy. The now Sir David Ormsby-Gore (appointed KCMG in 1961) was in close discussion with the Kennedy administration throughout the Cuban Missile Crisis, helped secure the Polaris submarine-launched system after the failure of the
OSBWRN WYDDEL (fl. 1293), Irish nobleman and ancestor of landed families in Merioneth , spoken of as 'of Corsygedol.' The fullest account of Osbwrn is probably that given by W. W. E. Wynne in Pedigree of the Family of Wynne, of Peniarth in the County of Merioneth (London, 1872). A member of the influential family of the Geraldines, Osbwrn was considered by Sir William Betham, Ulster-king-at-Arms, to be the son of 'John Fitz Thomas Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald de Windsor the first Lord of
OWAIN GWYNEDD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet Llwydiarth, Siôn Salbri of Llyweni, Dafydd Llwyd ap Wiliam of Peniarth, and Dafydd Llwyd ap Huw ab Ifan of Ynys y Maengwyn. He composed an elegy to the poet ' Sir ' Owain ap Gwilym, and poems of ymryson, or controversy, to Wiliam Llŷn, and to Hugh Arwystl; he also wrote religious poems, a poem on the snow, and a number of various englynion, which include one composed by him when on his sick bed.
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Grandfather of Henry VII, son of Maredudd ap 'Sir' Tudur ap Goronwy Fychan (see under Ednyfed Fychan) by Margaret, daughter of Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd. The circumstances surrounding the early part of his life are very obscure, but it is certain that as a young man he became a servant in the household of Henry V, possibly through the influence of his courtier kinsman, Maredudd ab Owain Glyn
OWAIN, Sir DAVID - see OWAIN, Sir DAFYDD
OWEN family Cefn-hafodau, Glangynwydd, Glansevern, Llangurig Service, Civil Administration, 1766, married Anne, daughter and heiress of Charles Davies of Llifior (Berriw), and had three sons: (a) Sir ARTHUR DAVIS OWEN (1752? - 1816), sheriff of Montgomery LawPublic and Social Service, Civil Administration, 1814, a lawyer, took an active part in the public life of his shire (deputy-lieutenant, chairman of the quarter sessions), and was second in command of its
OWEN family Plas-du, pressure of creditors, e.g. Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631) and Sir William Maurice. Thomas Owen's third son was JOHN OWEN (died 1622), the epigrammatist. HUGH OWEN (1538 - 1618), Roman Catholic conspirator Religion, was a younger son of Owen ap Gruffydd, educated at Lincoln's Inn (21 April 1556), and employed in the household of Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel and lord of Oswestry, whom he
OWEN family Peniarth, sheriff of Merioneth in 1646-7, and elected Member of Parliament for the county in 1659. The heir of Lewis Owen II by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Lloyd of Esclusham and Dulasau, was RICHARD OWEN I (died 1714), who was sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1694, of Merioneth, 1695, and of Caernarvonshire, 1705. He and his wife, Elizabeth (daughter and heiress of Humphrey Pughe of Aberffrydlan), were
OWEN family Bodeon, Bodowen, old order). His son, the first Sir HUGH OWEN, was a man of law, and recorder of the town of Carmarthen; this position enabled him to win the hand of Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Wirriott of Orielton in Pembroke. When the Civil War broke out the attitude of the family, both in Anglesey and Pembrokeshire, was indeterminate and non-committal; he would be a clever man who could say whether

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