Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Meudwy, Gwilym Glan Llwchwr; 1841 - 1902), rhymester and tramp church, Llandybïe. One of his brothers was Joseph Pugh Owen, schoolmaster of Torrington Square, London; another was John Owen who married a sister of D. Avan Griffiths, minister of Troedrhiwdalar (Congl.). William Pugh Owen, a priest in Melbourne, Australia, and Dr. John Griffith Owen, a doctor in Kingston-upon-Thames, were the children of that marriage. Edmund Owen Rees of San Francisco, British
OWEN, Sir WILLIAM (1607 - 1670), landowner - see OWEN, Sir JOHN
OWEN, WILLIAM HUGH (1886 - 1957), civil servant of Shipping. He played hockey for Wales against Ireland in 1910. He married 8 October 1919, Enid Strathearn, daughter of Sir John Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Ontario, and they had three daughters. He made his home at Montreal and died 21 February 1957.
PADLEY, WALTER ERNEST (1916 - 1984), Labour politician , London. He died on 15 April 1984. His successor as Labour MP for Ogmore was Sir Ray Powell (1928-2001) who had previously served as Padley's political agent for twelve years and was widely known to be Padley's chosen successor.
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen The family traces its connection with Plas Newydd and the Isle of Anglesey to the marriage, in 1737, of Sir NICHOLAS BAYLY of Plas Newydd, with Caroline, daughter and heiress of Thomas, lord Paget of Beaudesert, Staffordshire. Their second son and heir, HENRY BAYLY (1744 - 1812) took the name Paget upon succeeding to the barony of Beaudesert in 1769, and was, in 1784, created earl of Uxbridge. It
PARKER, JOHN (1798 - 1860), cleric and artist Passengers: containing the Celtic Annals. His sister, MARY PARKER (1799 - 1864), who became lady Leighton in 1832 on her marriage to Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th baronet, of Loton, Salop, was also a very competent amateur artist. Several examples of her work are preserved in the National Library. The story of how she succeeded in making the well-known sketch of the two ' Ladies of Llangollen,' seated at a
PARR-DAVIES, HARRY (1914 - 1955), pianist and composer , and Sir Henry Walford Davies urged him to make a career as a classical composer; but light music was more to his taste and he studied the works of Eric Coates and Edward German to perfect his technique. He introduced himself to the singer Gracie Fields and became her accompanist in Britain and on tour in Canada and South Africa. He composed the song ' Sing as we go ' which Gracie Fields sang in the
PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn poet Talhaiarn; he had a good deal to do with preparing the way for the Welsh settlement in Patagonia; and he had a very high regard for Joseph Morris, a respected Independent preacher and foreman of the workmen on the Madryn estate. Sir Love died on 18 December 1891.
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) grandfather, Miles ap Harri, was married to Joan, a daughter of Sir Harry Stradling of S. Donat's, Glamorganshire, and as Joan's mother was sister to William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, the Herberts too come into the complex. Besides all this, there was kinship between the Parrys and the Cecils of Allt-yr-ynys (which is not far from Bacton); the William Cecil who continued to live at Allt-yr-ynys was in his
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Ewyas Lacy under Sir William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (1st creation) and a supporter of the Duke of York and Edward IV. Blanche's paternal grandparents were Miles ap Harry who married Joan, a daughter of Sir Harry Stradling of St. Donat's, Glamorganshire; Joan's mother was sister to Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, with descent from Sir Dafydd Gam. (In 1811 stained-glass windows commemorating
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator end of the War, he undertook further legal studies at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was tutored by the eminent jurist, Sir Percy Winfield, and graduated with a first class law degree in 1920. In 1922, he was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple, having being awarded the Certificate of Honour and being placed top of his year in the professional examinations. Instead of pursuing the practitioner's
PARRY, JOHN (1789 - 1868), stonemason and musician Salt Lake Valley, he was asked by then President of the church, Brigham Young, to form a choir with his singing group as the core. The choir he directed became the nucleus of the now world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He continued to direct the choir until 1854. John Parry settled in Salt Lake City with his second wife Harriet (also from Flintshire). They had two sons, Joseph Hyrum and Edwin. He

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